Tanush Kandpal

Tanush Kandpal is a senior at Edison High School. His STEM interests include computer science and machine learning. As an AI intern at Addy AI, he contributed to quality assurance testing of the company’s AI loan processing system, identifying and proposing solutions to critical bugs. Tanush also participated in MIT’s Beaver Works Summer Institute Quantum Software cohort, where he reproduced two quantum machine learning methods for binary classification using Qiskit and received the Dr. Bob Berman Disruptive Innovation Award for his cohort. He is currently conducting research applying machine learning to wireless spectrum sensing and signal detection. Outside of STEM, Tanush is a first-degree black belt in Taekwondo, serves as Op-Ed Editor of his school newspaper, and enjoys playing basketball.