Uma
Sthanu
Connect (Online Program), Class of 2026
High schoolWestwood High SchoolHi there! My name is Uma Sthanu, and I am a student with a passion for Computer Science and Business. My goal is to help bridge the gaps in education and healthcare globally, and I strongly believe in the potential of technology to bring this change. With this goal in mind, I have incubated 2 companies even as a pre-teen that I am still actively working on:
T2L Academy, an Ed-tech startup, to provide education for all, removing economic barriers. Making resources accessible to all through videos delivered online & creating a learning hub to help K-8 students, I hope to increase participation and exposure for the underprivileged to expand their learning beyond the school curriculum. As someone who had the fortune to be able to participate in various elementary, middle, and high school school competitions in Science, Math, Arts & Literature, I believe that encouraging participation in these competitions will make learning more fun for all.
Sayffer is a Health-tech startup that provides a suite of applications to help improve healthcare on the global scale. Our first project, building the Sayffer mobile application, worked to create a secure & compliant health data sharing application for K-12 staff, teachers & parents. The mission is to digitize the manual communication and collaboration that exists in K-12 around health data. The application is accessible to all and available on all mobile platforms, built to ensure HIPAA & FERPA compliance.
Our most recent project is TBDetect (tbdetect.sayffer.com). I recognized the potential of technology of AI & Machine Learning to solve problems at a global scale and decided to use Machine Learning to solve the ongoing Tuberculosis pandemic, which, despite being centuries old, continues to kill over a million a year, especially in Africa and South Asia. I hope that TBDetect can help many nonprofit organizations and smaller hospitals battling Tuberculosis around the world and struggling with the lack of sufficient qualified medical resources.
In the past, I have completed a certification on Machine Learning for Healthcare from Stanford University, and on Design Thinking for Innovation and Business Strategy from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. I have also obtained other marketing and data science certifications from Google, IBM and Hubspot, attended a Girls in Engineering summer camp at UC Berkeley, and is part of the Google CodeNext Class of 2023. I am also a 7-time Science Fair winner at the regional, state, and national levels – finishing State 1st in the Software & Systems category in 2022, being a Broadcom MASTERS semifinalist (Top 300 in the Nation) in 2021, winning the Broadcom Coding with Commitment Award & the Society of Women in Engineering Award for Excellence in Science, Engineering and Mathematics for 6-8th graders in 2020, the UT Austin Dell Medical School Future Health Leader Award in 2018 for her earlier projects in science, technology, and healthcare, the Michael & Susan Dell Healthy Living Center Health Innovation award in 2023, and the BioAustin Health Innovation award that same year. In addition, I have participated in business competitions such as DECA and FBLA, and will go on to represent the State of Texas at the International Career Development Conference for the former in April 2023.
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