David Lomelin

Awards

Extracurriculars

1. 1

   IAP Entrepreneurship Program

   Earned team acceptance into IAP, an entrepreneurship program hosted by a local college

2. 2

   AI Academy Summer Research Program

   Completed the AI Academy summer program, building a machine-learning model and publishing a research paper in a student journal

3. 3

   MITES Semester @ MIT

   Selected for MIT's MITES Semester (formerly MOSTEC), a free hybrid STEM program; took courses with MIT instructors, completed and presented projects, and earned faculty recommendation letters

4. 4

   Co-Founder @ Scholar AI

   Co-founded Scholar AI, an early ChatGPT-powered study and note-writing tool, scaling it to 25,000 users and nearing five figures in revenue

5. 5

   Founder @ Student Coders of Virginia

   Founded Student Coders of Virginia, a nonprofit offering free coding classes; taught several hundred students to code and mentored them on individual projects

6. 6

   Co-Founder @ Nivaro

   Co-founded Navaro (Nivaro), a student-led edtech platform that helped over 700 students build advanced AI projects; partnered with the local school system to bring the program into classrooms and declined an acquisition offer

7. 7

   Team Leader, Head Coder & Builder @ VEX Robotics

   Led a VEX Robotics team as team leader, head coder, and builder; qualified for States multiple times with high placements, built 6+ competition robots, and ran volunteer showcases with Girl Scouts

8. 8

   Published AI Research: CNNs vs. RNNs for Retinal Disease Imaging

   Authored and published a peer-reviewed IEEE conference paper (IATMSI 2024) comparing convolutional vs