I'm Rishab Jain, co-founder of a healthcare company called Prescience.

I am 21 years old, live in Boston, and am the son of immigrants.

About

I grew up in Portland, Oregon, but I was raised on the internet. I started coding when I was five, and some of my fondest memories involve a computer screen. My first 'claim to fame' was in seventh grade, when I won the national science fair for my computer program using neural nets to segment pancreatic tumors. I also broadcasted these projects on YouTube--and slowly grew from 480p screen recordings to reaching over 160,000 subscribers across several channels. By high school, I was earning a full-time income building bots on a platform called Discord, and I will forever be known to a corner of the internet as "RJain - Discord YouTuber."

Somewhere in there, though, I lost interest in YouTube and narrowed in on my interest for machine learning. Move 37 inspired me to watch David Silver's lectures on reinforcement learning. Which led me to OpenAI Five, playing with GPT-J, and ultimately, the Bitter Lesson. It was certainly a nonlinear introduction, but I grew fascinated with intelligence. I kept submitting my research and projects to science competitions, and was fortunate to win 1st Place at the Regeneron ISEF, and attend the Research Science Institute--some of my most formative experiences. One of my research projects--recurrent neural networks for codon optimization--was licensed by a biotech company, and is regularly used by academia and industry to optimize recombinant drugs.

To explore intelligence further, I decided to attend Harvard College and study computational neuroscience. I worked in several research labs, and published over ten research papers in machine learning, synthetic biology, and AI ethics. While a student, I also built and exited Qurios Ventures, an education consulting company for science research. My last effort on campus was Singularity, an effort to find those who believe in AGI.

My busy upbringing has been immensely rewarding. I would not trade it for anything. I believe I have the toolkit and taste to build something great. Please do not hesitate to reach out; I am forever indebted to friends and mentors I met on the internet who inspired me and taught me everything I know.