Aniruth Ananthanarayanan

R L Turner → Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science '26

Researcher @ MGH, CTO @ KidneyChain, Goldwater Scholarship Nominee

Hi, I am Aniruth, a senior in high school at the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. I'm passionate about using machine learning, biomedical research, and public health to tackle high-impact challenges at the intersection of technology and medicine. Through interdisciplinary work in research, patient-care, and outreach, I aim to develop solutions that improve healthcare outcomes and advance scientific understanding.

Contact: University Email · Work Email

Aniruth Ananthanarayanan's GitHub chart

Links & Press

BBC Science Focus
BBC Science Focus
New Scientist
New Scientist
BMES 2025
BMES 2025
KidneyChain
KidneyChain
Kinetik
Kinetik
Vigilante
Vigilante

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Work

  • Kinetik — Conversational AI at scale. Architecting automated backends and chatbots that power talent ops. >$500K contracts, MLE → CTO.
  • KidneyChain — Translational engineering for transplant logistics. Designing a blockchain + ML platform for kidney allocation with clinicians. Backed by NSF I-Corps, Nelson Ctr. for Entrepreneurship.
  • Interpretable ML for spectroscopy and materials. SPARCS: neural workflows to read optical spectra and quantify species. Github Repo.
  • Kidney allocation modeling. Network-based simulations exploring match quality vs. organ availability. kidneybench · bioRxiv.

Selected Performances

Grants, Funding, and Other Monetary Awards

  • Keerat Baweja Memorial Scholarship, University of North Texas (2025)
    Merit-based scholarship awarded for academic excellence and commitment to research and innovation.Learn more about the scholarship · Learn more about Keerat
  • NSF ACCESS Allocation (PHY250192) (2025)
    Awarded 200,000 computing credits for high-performance computing resources to support computational physics and machine learning research; named as Co-Principal Investigator alongside Dr. Guru Khalsa.
  • Special Judge's Award, Best Presentation for Assigned Judge, DECA (2025)
    Recognized for outstanding presentation skills and business acumen at the DECA state competition.
  • Undergraduate Research Fellowship, University of North Texas (2025)
    Fellowship supporting undergraduate research in biomedical engineering and computational methods.Learn more
  • Ongoing Summer Research Scholarship, University of North Texas (2025)
    Summer research support enabling full-time focus on machine learning applications in healthcare and transplant logistics.Learn more
  • Undergraduate Research Fellowship, University of North Texas (2025)
    Additional fellowship funding to support interdisciplinary research projects and conference presentations.Learn more
  • Early Summer Research Scholarship, University of North Texas (2024)
    Early summer funding to initiate research on neural networks for medical diagnostics and spectroscopy analysis.Learn more
  • Lift-Off Microgrant (2024)
    Seed funding for early-stage entrepreneurial ventures and innovative project development.Learn more