Resume

Rishi Jain
27rishijainpersonalemail@gmail.com · 470-957-8890 · rishi-jain-27.github.io · College Park, GA

Education

Woodward Academy, College Park, GA — Expected Graduation: May 2027

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

Technical Skills

Projects

• Built CodeFlow 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. 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.
• Implemented a suite of deep reinforcement learning algorithms from scratch in PyTorch, solving a range of control and game environments:
  • Bipedal Walker — SAC, DDPG, and TD3 across the Easy and Hardcore environments.
  • Lunar Lander — PPO and REINFORCE for continuous-control physics navigation.
  • Flappy Bird — Deep Q-Learning with Dueling and Double DQN extensions.
  • Blackjack — Group-Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) and Robust Policy Optimization (RPO) on Gymnasium’s Blackjack-v1.
  • chessMAPPO — Multi-Agent PPO (MAPPO) self-play between white and black agents, built on python-chess and PettingZoo.
• 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.
• 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. Placed #298 of 1,349 experienced AI engineers and undergraduate competitors.
• Built DebateSearch, a full-stack web app that surfaces hidden debate round videos and integrates AI-powered recommendations to improve accessibility for debate students.
• Built hwagent.org, a full-stack student dashboard aggregating assignments and assessments, with a secure PostgreSQL login system deployed via Render and Cloudflare.

Open Source & Technical Writing

• Contributed to Deep-ML (deep-ml.com), an open platform of interview-style machine learning coding problems, as an open-source contributor.
• Produced machine learning problem walkthrough videos on my YouTube channel, solving difficult ML problems frequently asked in technical interviews.
• 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.

Leadership & Experience

Student Leadership Council, National Speech & Debate Association

Grade 12 · Current

• 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, Woodward Academy

Grades 9–12 · Current

• Coached two teams to First and Second Year State Champion and Runner-Up at GFCA State Championships.
• Coached one team to First Year National Champion and Best Speaker at National Championships.
• 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.
• Led team to national championships, state championships, and national circuit tournaments across four years.

FlintAI Club — Founder & President, Woodward Academy

Grade 11 · Current

• 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.
• Developed curriculum emphasizing responsible, educational AI use across homework, studying, and time management.

FlintAI Ambassador

Grades 11–12 · Current

• 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.
• Worked directly with CEO Sohan Choudhury to provide product feedback that was implemented in FlintAI’s token usage and whiteboard interaction systems.

Legislative Page — Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Georgia

Grade 11

• 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, Woodward Academy

Grades 11–12 · Current

• 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, Woodward Academy

Grade 12 · Current

• Selected to guide incoming freshmen through the transition to Upper School, fostering community and personal growth across 18 weeks of structured peer mentorship.

Honors & Awards

Debate & Competitive Speech

• University of Michigan Debate Fellowship (Grade 12) — 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.
• Varsity Policy Debate Georgia State Champion (Grade 11) — #1 policy debate team in Georgia; second time in history Woodward won First Year, Second Year, and Varsity titles in a single year.
• National Ranking: #18 nationally among all high school policy debate teams (Coaches Poll, Grade 11)
• First Year National Champion — Won 9 consecutive debates; unanimous 3-0 final round decision (Grade 9)
• Second Year National Runner-Up — Won 7 rounds against top national teams (Grade 10)
• Second Year Georgia State Co-Champion & Top Speaker (Grade 10)
• First Year Georgia State Co-Champion (Grade 9)
• Tournament of Champions: 4 Bids accumulated (Grade 11)

Academic Honors

• Gold Eagle Honor (4 years) — awarded for maintaining a cumulative GPA of 3.80+ at Woodward Academy
• National Recognition Program, CollegeBoard (Grade 11)
• 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
• NSDA Academic All American — Awarded to 33 students in Woodward history (Grade 12)
• NSDA Outstanding Distinction — 1,255+ points for participation, judging, and coaching (Grade 11)
• 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
• 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 — Atlanta Urban Debate League (AUDL)

Grades 9–12 · Current

• Volunteered to judge middle school debates for the AUDL, providing detailed, constructive feedback to develop argumentation and critical thinking in underserved student communities.
• 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.
• Coached teams to champion and runner-up finishes at GFCA Second Year State Championships.
• Coached a team to win the First Year National Championship and earn the Top Speaker award.

Debate Judge — Emory National Debate Institute

Grade 11

• 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

Grade 11

• 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

Grades 9–12 · Current

• Four-year member; organized cultural events celebrating South Asian heritage and promoting cross-cultural understanding within the school community.

Activities & Athletics

Science Olympiad, Woodward Academy

Grades 9–12 · Current

• 4th Place, Machines event — University of Georgia Invitational (Grade 11); designed a dual-lever mechanical device and excelled in technical examination on simple machines.
• Developed key chemistry and cryptography resources that contributed to team’s state championship qualification.

Quiz Bowl, Woodward Academy

Grades 9–12 · Current

• Four-year member of a team that reached the national championship; rapid recall across history, science, literature, mathematics, arts, and current events.

Daily Strength & Conditioning Training

Current

• Committed to a daily workout regimen, maintaining physical discipline alongside a demanding academic and competitive schedule; views consistent physical training as foundational to focus, resilience, and peak performance.

Pickup Football — University of Michigan Debate Camp

Summer (Pre-Fellowship)

• Competed in pickup football games with peers during an intensive seven-week national debate camp, demonstrating athletic initiative and competitive drive even within a rigorous academic environment away from home.

Certifications & Training

• Arduino Certification in Electronics & Physical Computing — passed formal 36-question assessment (April 2026)
• Building AI (University of Helsinki / MinnaLearn) and supplementary AI coursework (FreeCodeCamp): machine learning, optimization, probability, and neural networks with a real-world final project.
• Self-studied PyTorch, a leading deep learning framework used in AI research and industry.