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Math + Computer Science, UCLA

Navya
Rawal

I build products that leave the lab and my ideas outgrow my computer.

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The Work

Projects that show how I turn ideas into something people can use, test, and build on.

Product & Entrepreneurship

Sunny

Role
Co-Founder & Lead Developer
Dates
March 2026 — June 2026

An alarm app paired with NFC technology that forces you out of bed to defeat habitual snoozing — built and tested with real users across UCLA's campus.

  • Product experimentation
  • NFC / hardware-software integration
  • User research
  • Go-to-market testing
  • Founder-led growth
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100+stickers sold and 73 app downloads across UCLA's campus
9five-star reviews from early users
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Entrepreneurship & Global Impact

Rookie Robotics

Role
Founder
Dates
December 2022 — December 2025

Founded an initiative to build sustainable robotics programs at schools in Nepal — raising and deploying equipment, training instructors, and establishing programs built to last.

$5,000+ in robotics equipment raised and deployed

Permanent programs established at 4 schools

Girl Scouts Gold Award recipient

  • Fundraising
  • International program building
  • Curriculum development
  • Logistics
  • Technical education
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Artificial Intelligence & Research

Diagnosis of Osteosarcoma Through CNN

Role
UCSB SRA Researcher
Dates
June 2023 — July 2023

Developed and trained a convolutional neural network to classify osteosarcoma from histopathology images, reaching roughly 82% accuracy.

~82% classification accuracy on histopathology image data

Matched competitive results using a fraction of the layers and training epochs of deeper models

  • Convolutional neural networks
  • Image classification
  • Research methodology
  • Model evaluation
  • Healthcare AI applications
Research Paper
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Environmental Engineering & Hardware

PhosphoBuddy

Role
Lead Hardware Developer
Dates
August 2024 — June 2025

A three-tier wastewater filtration system that removes phosphorus using duckweed, biochar, and a phosphate-binding protein — first place at CCCSEF and the UC Berkeley Bioengineering Competition.

  • 1st place — CCCSEF
  • 1st place — UC Berkeley Bioengineering Competition
  • ~$3,000 in lab equipment and $1,000+ in grants secured
  • Hardware prototyping
  • Environmental & biological systems engineering
  • Experimental design
  • Interdisciplinary research
  • Competition & pitch presentation
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Research Week Presentation Poster

Additional Experiments & Projects

Smaller in scope, same bias toward building and testing.

Artificial Intelligence & Environment

Forest Health Assessment Through CNN

A drone-based system pairing Raspberry Pi imaging and autonomous flight routing with CNN analysis of RGB imagery — using NDVI and leaf-area metrics to flag tree stress and wildfire risk.

Lead Software DeveloperJune 2023 — August 2024

Environmental Engineering & Hardware

BioBark & MethanBotics

A methane-absorbing synthetic bark paired with probiotic digestion solutions — state finalist for Samsung Solve for Tomorrow.

Lead Hardware DeveloperAugust 2024 — June 2025

Artificial Intelligence & Software

CoTrade

A React and Amazon Bedrock (Nova Pro) app that scores congressional stock trades by sentiment — built as Cloud Architect and Project Lead with UCLA's AWS Cloud Club.

Cloud Architect & Project LeadJanuary 2026 — Present
Leadership & Impact

Leadership measured in what actually got built, and who it reached.

$10K+raised in corporate partnerships
$30Kin donations & fees managed
100+students taught
4schools with sustained robotics programs
6large-scale competitions organized
800+volunteers coordinated
13member technical team led

Tri-Valley Robotics

Director of Outreach & Coach

June 2024 — December 2025
  • Built corporate partnerships through stakeholder outreach and proposals, raising more than $10,000 for FLL and FTC teams
  • Organized STEM outreach events to expand community robotics programs
  • Coached three FIRST robotics teams

First Tech Challenge

President & Captain

October 2021 — June 2024
  • Led a 13-member robotics team through strategy, hardware design, CAD, and fabrication — writing Java for autonomous and driver-controlled systems
  • Earned Gold Division Finalist and the Connect Award at the NorCal Regional Championships

California Scholarship Federation

Co-President & Treasurer

December 2022 — September 2025
  • Automated administrative workflows with a centralized tracking system for 1,000+ students, covering dues, attendance, and service hours
  • Managed approximately $30,000 in donations and fees while tracking participation metrics
  • Ran community events for more than 1,000 students

VEX Robotics Tournaments

Judge, Emcee & Field Staff

December 2022 — September 2025
  • Helped organize six large-scale competitions serving more than 100 teams
  • Coordinated operations involving more than 800 volunteers
  • Evaluated robot design and performance
  • Received the President's Volunteer Service Award, Gold level
Experience

Where the technical work happens day to day.

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Kyrah.AI

Software Engineering Intern

July 2026 — Present

Built and shipped user-facing features for an emotional well-being platform — wiring LLM workflows into the product and owning the evaluation loop that turns systematic response testing and user feedback into prioritized improvements.

  • Full-stack development
  • LLM integration
  • Applied AI
  • Evaluation & testing
  • Product iteration
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NeuroLeap Corp

Data Engineering Intern

January 2026 — June 2026

Designed the data architecture and backend collection behind AI-driven neurodevelopmental assessment tools, working inside a secure, HIPAA-conscious environment.

  • Designed a scalable data architecture — a star schema for patient and test records, with optimized wide tables for high-volume EEG, ECG, and EMG data
  • Built and tested a Go REST API streaming IoT device-health metrics into an Oracle database for reliable backend collection
  • Backend engineering
  • Data architecture
  • REST APIs (Go)
  • Healthcare technology
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Amplify Analytix

Data Analytics Consulting Intern

June 2023 — June 2024

Wrote SQL against large client datasets to build pricing-optimization and product-performance dashboards tracking key business metrics, and built predictive models surfacing key revenue drivers — translating the results into clear pricing and product recommendations.

  • SQL & data analysis
  • Predictive modeling
  • Analytics dashboards
  • Business decision translation
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Magikid Robotics

Lead Coach & Curriculum Developer

December 2022 — September 2025

Coached several competitive VEX teams and taught more than 100 students ages 4–14 in robotics, coding, and engineering design. Designed standardized curriculum used across multiple programs while managing instructor scheduling and coordinating team operations.

  • Coaching
  • Curriculum development
  • Program operations
  • STEM education
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Capabilities

What I actually work with, grouped by function.

No proficiency bars — just what I've applied directly through the work above.

Software & Data

Building and maintaining the pipelines and systems that move and make sense of data.

  • Data pipeline development
  • Data accessibility & integration
  • Analytics dashboards
  • Data visualization
  • Machine learning workflows
  • Java

Artificial Intelligence & Research

Designing, training, and evaluating models — and communicating what they find.

  • Convolutional neural networks (CNNs)
  • Image classification & computer vision
  • Model training & evaluation
  • NDVI / remote sensing analysis
  • Experimental design
  • Quantitative analysis
  • Technical writing & presentation

Hardware & Engineering

Turning a system on paper into a working, testable prototype.

  • Robotics design & fabrication
  • CAD
  • Raspberry Pi / embedded systems
  • NFC integration
  • Sensor integration
  • Rapid prototyping
  • Biological & environmental engineering systems

Product & Entrepreneurship

Getting an idea in front of real users, then acting on what they say.

  • Product experimentation
  • User research & feedback loops
  • Go-to-market testing
  • Fundraising
  • Partnership development
  • Pitching & competition presentation
  • Startup execution

Leadership & Communication

Building the teams and programs that make the work possible — and keeping them running.

  • Team leadership
  • Coaching & mentorship
  • Curriculum development
  • Public speaking & emceeing
  • Event & operations management
  • Consulting
  • Community outreach

This list grows with every new project — not a fixed checklist.

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