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[Rishi Jain]{.smallcaps}
470-957-8890 $|$ 27rishijainpersonalemail@gmail.com $|$
College Park, GA
rishi-jain-27.github.io $|$
linkedin.com/in/27rjain $|$
github.com/Rishi-Jain-27
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Education
**Woodward Academy** Aug. 2023 -- May 2027
*High School Diploma (Expected)* *College Park, GA*
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GPA: 4.94 (Weighted) $ $ SAT: 1530 -
National Honor Society (Randolph W. Thrower Chapter)
- AP Coursework: Computer Science Principles, Computer Science A, U.S. History, Chemistry, Calculus AB, Physics 1, Macroeconomics, English Language and Composition
Experience
**Student Leadership Council Member** 2026 -- Present
*National Speech & Debate Association* *National*
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- Elected to represent 140,000+ NSDA members nationwide through a highly selective process; collaborate directly with NSDA leadership to improve accessibility in speech and debate
**Policy Debate — Team Leader, Coach & Judge** 2023 -- Present
*Woodward Academy* *College Park, GA*
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Coached two teams to First and Second Year State Champion and Runner-Up at GFCA State Championships
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Coached one team to First Year National Champion and Best Speaker at National Championships
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Produced 10% of Woodward Varsity’s total research output (1,500+ evidence cards) in 2024–2025, anchoring the team’s competitive preparation across Fiscal Redistribution, IP, and Arctic Development topics
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Led team to national championships, state championships, and national circuit tournaments across four years
**Founder & President, FlintAI Club** 2025 -- Present
*Woodward Academy* *College Park, GA*
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Founded and lead the school’s AI Club, a subset of the Technology Club, training students to use FlintAI (the school’s official AI tool) to navigate academic challenges without shortcuts
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Developed curriculum emphasizing responsible, educational AI use across homework, studying, and time management
**FlintAI Ambassador** 2025 -- Present
*FlintAI*
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Selected through a competitive rolling application to represent FlintAI as an Ambassador, advocating for responsible AI in education; authored a guest blog post on AI as a draft reviewer for student writing
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Worked directly with CEO Sohan Choudhury to provide product feedback that was implemented in FlintAI’s token usage and whiteboard interaction systems
**Legislative Page** 2026
*Office of the Lt. Governor of Georgia* *Atlanta, GA*
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- Served Lt. Governor Burt Jones, observing floor votes, relaying stakeholder communications, and gaining direct exposure to the legislative process and policy debates affecting Georgia communities
**Math Team Captain** 2025 -- Present
*Woodward Academy* *College Park, GA*
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- Collaborated with other captains to lead a competitive team through local and national mathematics competitions; coordinate practice, develop strategy, and mentor teammates in algebra, combinatorics, and number theory
**Peer Leader** 2026 -- Present
*Woodward Academy* *College Park, GA*
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- Selected to guide incoming freshmen through the transition to Upper School, fostering community and personal growth across 18 weeks of structured peer mentorship
Projects
**CodeFlow** $|$ *Qwen3-Coder, LoRA, llama.cpp, GGUF* 2026
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Built for the Hugging Face Build Small Hackathon 2026: a fully local tool that turns source code into animated control-flow flowcharts, with every node linked back to the exact source lines it came from
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Runs a LoRA fine-tune of Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B (a Mixture-of-Experts model with ~3.3B active parameters per token) on CPU via llama.cpp as a ~3-bit GGUF, fine-tuned on 2,400 synthetic code-to-flowchart pairs
**Deep Reinforcement Learning Suite** $|$ *PyTorch*
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Implemented a suite of deep reinforcement learning algorithms from scratch in PyTorch, solving a range of control and game environments:
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Bipedal Walker — SAC, DDPG, and TD3 across the Easy and Hardcore environments
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Lunar Lander — PPO and REINFORCE for continuous-control physics navigation
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Flappy Bird — Deep Q-Learning with Dueling and Double DQN extensions
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Blackjack — Group-Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) and Robust Policy Optimization (RPO) on Gymnasium’s Blackjack-v1
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chessMAPPO — Multi-Agent PPO (MAPPO) self-play between white and black agents, built on python-chess and PettingZoo
**Hindi-English Neural Machine Translator** $|$ *PyTorch, Transformer*
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- Built an end-to-end Hindi-English neural machine translator with a Transformer architecture implemented from scratch in PyTorch, including a custom SentencePiece tokenizer, rotary positional embeddings (RoPE), and beam-search decoding
**Hybrid RAG System** $|$ *LLM, RAG* 2026
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Built a hybrid rules-based + LLM retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system solo in 24 hours at HackerRank Orchestrate 2026; classifies user input, retrieves relevant chunks from a support corpus, and generates grounded responses while mitigating prompt injection and hallucination
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Placed #298 of 1,349 experienced AI engineers and undergraduate competitors
**DebateSearch** $|$ *Full-stack web app*
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- Built a full-stack web app that surfaces hidden debate round videos and integrates AI-powered recommendations to improve accessibility for debate students
**hwagent.org** $|$ *PostgreSQL, Render, Cloudflare*
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- Built a full-stack student dashboard aggregating assignments and assessments, with a secure PostgreSQL login system deployed via Render and Cloudflare
Open Source & Technical Writing
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Contributed to Deep-ML (deep-ml.com), an open platform of interview-style machine learning coding problems, as an open-source contributor.
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Produced machine learning problem walkthrough videos on my YouTube channel, solving difficult ML problems frequently asked in technical interviews.
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Authored an ongoing technical blog documenting AI project development and conceptual deep dives across reinforcement learning (PPO, GRPO), world models, and deep-learning fundamentals; published on personal website. :::
Honors & Awards
Debate & Competitive Speech
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University of Michigan Debate Fellowship (2026) — Selected as one of 12 nationwide recipients of a full-tuition fellowship to the University of Michigan Seven-Week Seniors Lab, recognizing top achievement in research, analytical reasoning, and persuasive argumentation.
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Varsity Policy Debate Georgia State Champion (2026) — #1 policy debate team in Georgia; second time in history Woodward won First Year, Second Year, and Varsity titles in a single year.
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National Ranking: #18 nationally among all high school policy debate teams (Coaches Poll, 2026).
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First Year National Champion (2024) — Won 9 consecutive debates; unanimous 3-0 final round decision.
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Second Year National Runner-Up (2025) — Won 7 rounds against top national teams.
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Second Year Georgia State Co-Champion & Top Speaker (2025).
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First Year Georgia State Co-Champion (2024).
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Tournament of Champions: 4 Bids accumulated (2026). :::
Academic Honors
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Gold Eagle Honor (4 years) — awarded for maintaining a cumulative GPA of 3.80+ at Woodward Academy.
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National Recognition Program, CollegeBoard (2026).
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AP Scholar with Distinction, CollegeBoard — awarded for an average score of 3.5+ across all AP exams and scores of 3+ on five or more.
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NSDA Academic All American (2026) — Awarded to 33 students in Woodward history.
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NSDA Outstanding Distinction (2026) — 1,255+ points for participation, judging, and coaching.
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Georgia Certificate of Merit — awarded to students in the top 10% of their class, recognizing superior scholastic achievement across the first three years of high school.
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Phi Beta Kappa Award — selected by faculty for academic breadth, leadership, and love of learning; awarded Atlanta in 100 Objects by the Atlanta Alumni Association of Phi Beta Kappa. :::
Community & Service
**Debate Judge & Coach** 2023 -- Present
*Atlanta Urban Debate League (AUDL)* *Atlanta, GA*
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Volunteered to judge middle school debates for the AUDL, providing detailed, constructive feedback to develop argumentation and critical thinking in underserved student communities
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Judged and coached at the Middle School Tournament of Champions — one of the most competitive middle school tournaments nationally — despite most experienced judges declining these rounds
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Coached teams to champion and runner-up finishes at GFCA Second Year State Championships
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Coached a team to win the First Year National Championship and earn the Top Speaker award
**Debate Judge** 2026
*Emory National Debate Institute* *Atlanta, GA*
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- Judged high school debaters entering policy debate at the Emory National Debate Institute, providing detailed feedback that helped these students grow as speakers, critical thinkers, and researchers
**PeerKonnect Tutor** 2026
*PeerKonnect*
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- Provided personalized academic support through a peer tutoring platform; helped students improve grades by a full letter grade and fostered a stronger sense of school community
**South Asian Affinity Club** 2023 -- Present
*Woodward Academy* *College Park, GA*
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- Four-year member; organized cultural events celebrating South Asian heritage and promoting cross-cultural understanding within the school community
Activities
**Science Olympiad** 2023 -- Present
*Woodward Academy* *College Park, GA*
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4th Place, Machines event — University of Georgia Invitational (2026); designed a dual-lever mechanical device and excelled in technical examination on simple machines
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Developed key chemistry and cryptography resources that contributed to team’s state championship qualification
**Quiz Bowl** 2023 -- Present
*Woodward Academy* *College Park, GA*
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- Four-year member of a team that reached the national championship; rapid recall across history, science, literature, mathematics, arts, and current events
Technical Skills
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Languages: Python, JavaScript, Java, SQL
Frameworks: Node.js, PyTorch
Libraries: NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn
Tools: Render, Cloudflare, GitHub, Vercel, Upstash, CronJob
AI / ML: PyTorch, RAG systems, LLM integration, Prompt injection
mitigation, Machine Learning fundamentals (Helsinki / MinnaLearn,
FreeCodeCamp)
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Certifications & Training
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Arduino Certification in Electronics & Physical Computing — passed formal 36-question assessment (April 2026).
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Building AI (University of Helsinki / MinnaLearn) and supplementary AI coursework (FreeCodeCamp): machine learning, optimization, probability, and neural networks with a real-world final project.
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Self-studied PyTorch, a leading deep learning framework used in AI research and industry. :::