Welcome!
My name is Nishant Jain, and I am a computer science major at Yale University. Over the last seven years, I have pursued a variety of projects related to distributed systems, mobile computing, and medical informatics.
During the summer after my freshman year, I interned in the Distributed Firewall Group at VMware in the Networking and Security business unit. My project involved the development of a context-enhancement framework for distributed application logging in a virtualized datacenter, resulting in co-authorship of a patent application. As part of my studies at Yale, I have taken graduate level courses on distributed systems and database architectures and have worked on projects to develop partitioned distributed graph stores and distributed file systems. I have gained a fair amount of experience with systems programming / architectures and my undergraduate thesis focused on developing abstractions for creating scalable distributed Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
As a passionate computer scientist and Android programmer, I have been driven to explore the application of mobile technologies in medicine and education through my engagements at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School courtesy of the MIT Research Science Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, and YogiPlay, a Bay Area startup that works in the area of mobile education. Close collaborations with these groups have allowed me to develop an understanding of the skills necessary to conceptualize, implement and deploy complex mobile application systems. A short 40 second video of one of my projects can be found here: Anatomy Augmented Reality Video Demo and a published journal article on the project in Wiley Clinical Anatomy is available online. More recently, I spent the summer of 2016 building the Khushi Baby Android Medical Records system for deployment in rural Rajasthan, India. During the summer of 2017, I'll be interning with the Android API & Developers Product Group at Google to work on improving Firebase Test Lab Robo, an automated testing system for simulating user activity on Android apps using methods from graph theory and search.
Additionally, I have done a fair amount of work in the field of bioinformatics. In high school, I coauthored a research article with Dr. Atul Butte, Director of the UCSF Computational Health Sciences Institute and former Chief of Systems Medicine at Stanford, which has been published in Nature's Scientific Reports Journal and is available online here: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep24799
Aside from my academic engagements, I served as the founding President of the Yale Undergraduate Research Association (YURA) , an organizer for the 1500-participant Yale YHack Hackathon, and as an occasional contributor to the Yale Daily News / Yale Scientific Magazine. Throughout my tenure as Co-President of YURA, I led a team of 25 to organize Yale's first three undergraduate research conferences, including the university's first national undergraduate research conference (YURC 2017) which hosted students from 25 universities across the United States. Since my sophomore year, I have been selected by the department to serve as a teaching assistant in several of Yale's largest Computer Science courses (CS223: Data Structures, CS112: Intro to Java Programming, and CS50: Intro to C Programming), where my responsibilities include advising final projects, hosting office hours, and leading review sessions.
Please feel free to explore this site further and learn about my projects! I'm always on the search for new collaborations, so if you know of any opportunities, I'd be more than happy to hear about them: Contact Form. Thank you for your time!
Selected Honors/Awards:
Intel Science Talent Search Semifinalist, Bioengineering/Computer Science - Society for Science and the Public
Published Bioinformatics Research in the Nature Scientific Reports Journal
Published Mobile Augmented Reality Research in Wiley Clinical Anatomy Journal
Yale InnovateHealth Award for Social Entrepreneurship - Yale University School of Public Health
Yale University Likely Letter Recipient, Top 150 Applicants to Yale - Yale University Office of Undergraduate Admissions
MIT Research Science Institute Scholar 2013 - The Center for Excellence in Education and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
U.S. Presidential Scholar Semifinalist from the State of California - The U.S. Department of Education
Invited Speaker - The Indus Entrepreneurs Conference (TIEcon) 2014
Distinguished Poster Presenter Award - NextMed Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference 2013
National Merit Finalist and $2500 Scholarship Recipient - The National Merit Scholarship Foundation
1st Prize Morgan Lewis Award in Applied Technology - Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Engineering Fair 2013
Regional Finalist Alternate - Junior Science and Humanities Symposium 2013
National Semifinalist - Top 10 - NPR Science Competition 2012
3rd Place Association for Computing Machinery Award - Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Engineering Fair 2013
Honorable Mention, Computers/Mathematics Category - Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Engineering Fair 2013
Clinical Anatomy Research Scholar 2012 - Stanford University School of Medicine
Nishant Jain, Monta Vista High School, Yale University
During the summer after my freshman year, I interned in the Distributed Firewall Group at VMware in the Networking and Security business unit. My project involved the development of a context-enhancement framework for distributed application logging in a virtualized datacenter, resulting in co-authorship of a patent application. As part of my studies at Yale, I have taken graduate level courses on distributed systems and database architectures and have worked on projects to develop partitioned distributed graph stores and distributed file systems. I have gained a fair amount of experience with systems programming / architectures and my undergraduate thesis focused on developing abstractions for creating scalable distributed Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
As a passionate computer scientist and Android programmer, I have been driven to explore the application of mobile technologies in medicine and education through my engagements at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School courtesy of the MIT Research Science Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, and YogiPlay, a Bay Area startup that works in the area of mobile education. Close collaborations with these groups have allowed me to develop an understanding of the skills necessary to conceptualize, implement and deploy complex mobile application systems. A short 40 second video of one of my projects can be found here: Anatomy Augmented Reality Video Demo and a published journal article on the project in Wiley Clinical Anatomy is available online. More recently, I spent the summer of 2016 building the Khushi Baby Android Medical Records system for deployment in rural Rajasthan, India. During the summer of 2017, I'll be interning with the Android API & Developers Product Group at Google to work on improving Firebase Test Lab Robo, an automated testing system for simulating user activity on Android apps using methods from graph theory and search.
Additionally, I have done a fair amount of work in the field of bioinformatics. In high school, I coauthored a research article with Dr. Atul Butte, Director of the UCSF Computational Health Sciences Institute and former Chief of Systems Medicine at Stanford, which has been published in Nature's Scientific Reports Journal and is available online here: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep24799
Aside from my academic engagements, I served as the founding President of the Yale Undergraduate Research Association (YURA) , an organizer for the 1500-participant Yale YHack Hackathon, and as an occasional contributor to the Yale Daily News / Yale Scientific Magazine. Throughout my tenure as Co-President of YURA, I led a team of 25 to organize Yale's first three undergraduate research conferences, including the university's first national undergraduate research conference (YURC 2017) which hosted students from 25 universities across the United States. Since my sophomore year, I have been selected by the department to serve as a teaching assistant in several of Yale's largest Computer Science courses (CS223: Data Structures, CS112: Intro to Java Programming, and CS50: Intro to C Programming), where my responsibilities include advising final projects, hosting office hours, and leading review sessions.
Please feel free to explore this site further and learn about my projects! I'm always on the search for new collaborations, so if you know of any opportunities, I'd be more than happy to hear about them: Contact Form. Thank you for your time!
Selected Honors/Awards:
Intel Science Talent Search Semifinalist, Bioengineering/Computer Science - Society for Science and the Public
Published Bioinformatics Research in the Nature Scientific Reports Journal
Published Mobile Augmented Reality Research in Wiley Clinical Anatomy Journal
Yale InnovateHealth Award for Social Entrepreneurship - Yale University School of Public Health
Yale University Likely Letter Recipient, Top 150 Applicants to Yale - Yale University Office of Undergraduate Admissions
MIT Research Science Institute Scholar 2013 - The Center for Excellence in Education and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
U.S. Presidential Scholar Semifinalist from the State of California - The U.S. Department of Education
Invited Speaker - The Indus Entrepreneurs Conference (TIEcon) 2014
Distinguished Poster Presenter Award - NextMed Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference 2013
National Merit Finalist and $2500 Scholarship Recipient - The National Merit Scholarship Foundation
1st Prize Morgan Lewis Award in Applied Technology - Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Engineering Fair 2013
Regional Finalist Alternate - Junior Science and Humanities Symposium 2013
National Semifinalist - Top 10 - NPR Science Competition 2012
3rd Place Association for Computing Machinery Award - Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Engineering Fair 2013
Honorable Mention, Computers/Mathematics Category - Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Engineering Fair 2013
Clinical Anatomy Research Scholar 2012 - Stanford University School of Medicine
Nishant Jain, Monta Vista High School, Yale University
