Join BostInno on August 26 for a virtual demo day with The Knowledge Society’s inaugural cohort. The Knowledge Society (TKS) is a 10 month global accelerator that provides Olympic level training for teens who want to be future innovators and CEOs. With weekly training sessions, covers Masters + PhD level specialized knowledge in exponential technology, innovation based mindsets, as well as professional development with skills needed for global leadership.Five students from last year’s graduating class will be demoing some of their projects across machine learning, gene editing, quantum computing and the brain-gut microbiome connection for our State of Innovation: Leaders of Tomorrow event.

Student Bios

Mukundh Murthy is a 16-year-old machine learning developer who’s passionate about the intersection between drug discovery, disease biology, and artificial intelligence. From interning in a structural biology lab in India in the summer of his sophomore year to building out new drug discovery pipelines this summer at 99andbeyond, he’s pursued many research projects and endeavors, all centered around his long term goal – to create lasting impact by shortening our currently inefficient drug discovery process through innovations in intelligent systems.

Apurva Joshi is a 17-year-old innovator who’s passionate about stem cell tech and genetic engineering. She’s currently building an at home bio lab to perform fruit fly leg regeneration experiments with these technologies as part of a moonshot research project called Likhagen to regrow limbs for amputees.

Mikey Taylor is a 17-year-old scientist and technologist on a mission to treat mental illness. A passionate machine learning developer in love with the brain, he is currently interning at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Research and Apollo Neuroscience to create wearable technologies that can ease anxiety and accurately assess symptom severity. From analyzing functional connectomes of schizophrenia to diagnosing autism with gut microbiota data, he has several different projects, all with the goal of having a positive impact on the world.

Alice Liu is a 16-year-old innovator passionate about the intersection of quantum computing and machine learning, and specifically its applications in the healthcare and financial industries. She has built models for qSVM algorithms in binary classification of breast cancer cells, credit risk analysis with QAE and 2D lattice protein folding with turn ancilla encoding. She is currently working on a moonshot company called Anaxa that uses quantum IoT devices for secure and efficient communication.

Kevin Wang is a 15-year-old intentionally curious about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and all things related to the brain, the mind, and computational systems. He has done work with spiking neural networks, causal modeling, and relational learning, and has spoken at the AGI Conference about that work. As a data scientist, full-stack engineer, and consultant, he is interning at multiple companies this summer to hone his dev skills, all the while still learning, thinking, and working on his goal to create AGI.

Event Schedule

4:00pm: Welcoming address
4:05pm: Fireside chat with Michael Raspuzzi, Directory of The Knowledge Society.
4:15pm: Pitches + Demos
4:25pm: Fireside chat with TKS graduates.
4:35pm: Q&A opens for audience

Joining us for the event? Let us know! Tweet us at @BostInno and @theksociety using hashtag #LeadersOfTomorrow Have questions about this event? Email BostInno’s senior events coordinator, Mollie O’Brien.

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