Khushi Sharma

Learning, Building and ApplyingEducationArtificial IntelligenceCellular Agriculture

Hey, I'm Khushi!

Ever since I was a young girl I was super interested in education. Every Saturday morning, I led lessons about things I learned in kindergarten for my parents. Fast forward around 2 years… it was my second time visiting India but my first time being old enough to understand what was going on around me. As I visited family and friends of my parents, I first-hand saw the inaccessibility to education as it pertained to some distant cousins, friends, and neighbors, particularly young girls.

Over the past few years, every volunteer or work experience I’ve had has had some sort of impact on children. A few summers ago, I volunteered at an organization called Sara’s education fund where I made math and English worksheets for underprivileged children in India and Nepal and also taught them lessons on zoom. Now, 2 years later, I’m the head of this organization (now called Resources for Youth in India) and am looking at how I can further expand it and target even more children in India and soon around the world. Alongside this, I built out an autograding software with formative feedback for schools in developing countries!

To learn more about this check out a memo I wrote here!

Currently, I'm working on a project to address the water crisis in Haiti by incentivizing factories to not dump wastewater into the streams. Check out more about the project above in my latest work!

My Latest Work

Clean Water in Haiti Project

The water crisis in Haiti is exacerbated by the infiltration of heavy metals into water sources, leading to health risks for its citizens. Factories contribute to this issue by dumping wastewater, containing heavy metals, into nearby streams. Our solution involves incentivizing factories to stop this practice by purchasing their wastewater and utilizing adsorption processes to remove ammonium ions. These recovered ions can be sold for the production of nitrogen fertilizers, generating funds to compensate the factories. The remaining heavy metals will be safely stored in underground injection sites. To learn more about our project, check out our pitch and project memo.

This project came second place overall when presented to judges

Project Memo

Presentation

Machine Translation Transformer

This project is designed to help with accessibility to education in developing countries. Using my knowledge of transformers, I built out a machine translator to help with the translation of important things such as textbooks, course material, and even logistical things such as admission forms.

Article

GitHub

Walmart Canada - Consulting Deck

A stand-alone slide deck consisting of a 3- part recommendation to transform Walmart into a more engaging experience for customers in 2030.

This deck was chosen as the top 7 and was presented to the CEO of Walmart and the retail innovation team.

Stand Alone Deck

Alius Labs

A moonshot company project based around solving the prematurity crisis through the use of artificial placentas.

This project won the 'viewers choice' award when presented to judges

Project Website

Improving Efficiency of Chip Manufacturing

The chip manufacturing process is incredibly inefficient, with photons being able to hit the silicon wafer from the machines at only a 5% efficiency rate. To solve this issue with efficiency, my team and I decided to use a Reinforcement Learning Agent which solves for a solution that is 2.5% more efficient than the last, doubling our efficiency when compared to no intervention.

Pitch

Memo

Cellular Agriculture; A Review

As an emerging technology, cultured meat is still not at the place that it should be for a variety of reasons; including cost, scalability issues and public perception. This review paper aims to communicate the process of cultured meat production, as well as its advantages, disadvantages and future prospects — an all-in-one guide to cultured meat.

Article

Paper

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Experience

EdTech Startup

Research Intern

Worked alongside the founder to collect and analyze data to identify patterns and trends, regarding the state of Education offerings in Africa. and how to increase education by interlinking it with employment in Canada.