Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram · Class of 2026
Lodha Genius Programme · Ashoka University
What follows is a record of Akshat's formal schooling, residential research programmes, and competitive fellowships — assembled between 2022 and the present. His foundation was a standard CBSE curriculum at one of India's most competitive schools; everything else was built around it. Admitted into the country's most selective mathematics programme at a 3.2% acceptance rate, appointed to a paid research apprenticeship in analytic number theory, and accepted into competitive programmes internationally — none of it accessed through IB, A-levels, or the infrastructure of educational consultants.
Entries are ordered roughly by academic weight, not chronology. Dates are of participation.
Paid research and teaching position at the Lodha Genius – Ashoka University Programme. An explicit institutional exception was made to include Akshat as a pre-undergraduate applicant. Research focus: analytic number theory, under Professor Sneha Chaubey (IIIT Delhi; Visiting Associate Professor, UC Davis), alongside faculty from IIT Delhi, CMI, ISI Kolkata, ISI Delhi, and Ashoka University.
Read more →Admitted into the fully funded Lodha Genius Programme 2025 Cohort, specialising in Pure Mathematics — Number Theory, Group Theory, Linear Algebra, and Geometry. Attended alongside top undergraduate mathematicians from across India.
Read more →Attended intimate colloquia with Nobel laureates, leading scientists, and mathematicians — including Sir Paul Nurse (Nobel Prize in Physiology, 2001), Professor Brian Schmidt (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2011), and Professor Haruzo Hida (AMS Steele Prize), among others.
Read more →Selected for the competitive Shadow the Scientists Programme at UC Santa Cruz — pairing students with active UCSC researchers to observe and participate directly in ongoing scientific work.
Completed secondary and senior secondary education at one of India's most selective schools. Elected President of the Student Council. CBSE stream: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Economics.
Read more →Selected for YC's inaugural Startup School India, among 2,000 founders, builders, and engineers from across the country. Pitched his financial literacy initiative directly to Jared Friedman, received a $25K+ AI compute grant from Y Combinator, and met the founding teams of Zepto, Razorpay, Groww, and Meesho.
Read more →Nominated as one of five students from Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram (from a school of 5,000+). Studied ESG and culture in marketing under Professor Barry Hung, Department of Management, Marketing and Information Systems.
Completed a selective three-month entrepreneurship development programme run by the Entrepreneurship Cell of IIT Bombay. Developed and pitched FinKid, a financial literacy initiative, to industry leaders and CXOs.
Selected for the s3 Cohort of buildspace, a global programme for early-stage builders and founders. Chosen from among 32,000 applications worldwide; the programme focused on shipping real products with real users within a compressed timeline.