§1 Papers & Publications 4 entries
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Published 2025
The Two Faces of Progress: A Look at the Socio-Economic Challenges and Opportunities Presented by Artificial Intelligence IJRASET · Vol. 13, Issue 7, 2025 · Peer-reviewed

Research conducted under Professor Surbhi Goel (University of Pennsylvania) on AI policy and existential risk — examining the dual nature of transformative technology through an economic and governance lens. Presented at the NYC STEM Research Conference; I was the only high school student in the room.

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Published 2024
How Economics Runs the World Arbitrage · Finance & Investment Journal, IIM Rohtak

Analysis of global economic structures — monetary policy transmission, regulatory architecture, and capital market dynamics — with proposed improvements to international financial governance. I was the only high school student published in the journal.

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Completed
Black Swan Research Indian School of Business and Finance · Under Prof. Kritika Soni

Investigation into the effects of multi-dimensional low-probability, high-impact risk events on global financial markets — drawing on historical crises and tail-risk modelling frameworks.

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Ongoing
NEP 2020 Impact Research Independent · India

Studying the effect of India's National Education Policy 2020 on graduate employability, skill development, and the structural transition of the labour market — with a focus on vocational and higher education pathways.

Research statement Akshat is interested in the economics of information and governance — how institutions encode knowledge, how policy alters incentive structures, and where rigorous mathematical tools can illuminate questions that prose alone cannot.
Note [1] Prof. Surbhi Goel is a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania. The paper appears in IJRASET (Vol. 13, Issue 7, 2025) and was presented in New York.
Note [2] Arbitrage is the Finance & Investment Journal of IIM Rohtak — one of India's premier management schools.
Note [3] Research mentored by Prof. Kritika Soni at the India School of Business and Finance.
§2 Programmes & Fellowships 3 entries
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Upcoming · May–Jun 2026
Number Theory Research — Lodha Genius Undergraduate Research Mathematics Apprenticeship Ashoka University · LG-AUP · Paid research programme

Original research in algebraic number theory under Professor Shanta Laishram (Head of the Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit (Stat-Math Unit) at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Delhi).

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Completed Fall 2025
New York Academy of Sciences — Junior Academy NYAS Junior Academy · Fall 2025 Challenge · Energy Infrastructure

Selected into the NYAS Junior Academy in August 2025. Completed the Fall 2025 Challenge on Energy Infrastructure in collaboration with a global cohort of secondary students, developing science-backed policy and engineering solutions.

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Completed 2025
Lodha Genius Programme — Pure Mathematics Ashoka University · ≈3.2% acceptance · Fully funded residential

Completed university-level pure mathematics — Number Theory, Group Theory, Linear Algebra, and Geometry — alongside Great Ideas Seminars with Nobel laureates. One of fewer than 30 students admitted nationwide.

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Note [5] Prof. Sneha Chaubey is at IIIT Delhi and also a Visiting Associate Professor at UC Davis, working in analytic number theory and automorphic forms.
Note [6] The NYAS Junior Academy is a global STEM research programme for exceptional secondary students. nyas.org ↗
Note [7] The Lodha Genius Programme at Ashoka University is India's most selective mathematics enrichment programme for school students.