Across
- 3. The NGO I founded at 15 — enrolled 1,000+ marginalised people in Ayushman Bharat, Aadhaar and e-Shram cards, scaling from Bangalore to villages in Jharkhand
- 5. 11 years of classical vocal training, 5th-year certification — I performed live in front of 5,000 people at Harvard MUN
- 8. Brown belt, 7+ years, Gold medallist in Kumite and Kata at Delhi State — the sport whose loss taught me that passion lives on in others
- 10. I ranked 15th across South East Asia in this maths olympiad — solving advanced algebra, geometry and number theory
- 11. The mathematical object at the heart of my Oxford research paper — spaces that locally resemble Euclidean geometry but behave wildly in higher dimensions
- 12. My ISL-to-text translator — amplifying voices hitherto inaudible, built with MediaPipe, OpenCV and TensorFlow
Down
- 1. What I'm about to become — CMU's identity, woven from many overlapping threads, just like me
- 2. I scored a perfect 100% in the national round, after qualifying with 96% — named after history's most romantic mathematical genius
- 4. My weapon of choice — powers my pneumonia CNN, Vani, the Wharton bracket predictor, and demand forecasts at Third Wave Coffee
- 6. The job-matching platform I co-built for blue-collar workers — accessible UI for low-literacy users, Java backend, real-time job discovery, no middlemen
- 7. British Science Association's highest distinction — awarded for my CNN detecting pneumonia from chest X-rays, meeting all 15 evaluation criteria
- 9. The person behind all of it — arriving at CMU, finally
