Arup Sarma
Arup Sarma, son of Girish and Minakhi Sarma of Overland Park, Kansas (USA) is graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a double major in Computer Science and Engineering, and Mathematics and with a minor in Biomedical Engineering. Arup is one of the top students in the 2008 graduating class. He is also a Vice President of the MIT chapter of the Tau Beta Pi. While at MIT, Arup was actively engaged in research in the field of computer science and computational neuroscience. One of his research papers, titled “Context-based Speech Recognition Error Detection and Correction” has been published in the Proceedings of the Human Language Technology: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 89 – 92, 2004. The other research paper, titled “Recognizing Expressions in a New Database Containing Played and Natural Expressions” was published in the Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pages 1220 – 1225, 2006. Very recently, he has also co-authored a research paper on computational biology, which has been accepted for publication in an internationally recognized journal “Science”.
Following graduation, Arup has decided to join the Pritzker Medical School, University of Chicago for a dual degree program (MD and PhD) in Medicine (Neurology). Arup will start his MD program and research for his PhD in Computational Neuroscience from this summer. The entire expense for this dual degree program will be financed by the University’s NIH sponsored fund under the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP).
Arup possesses an outstanding record in academic excellence. Right from elementary school, Arup was a straight “A” student, class valedictorian and received several awards and recognition at the local, state, regional and national levels. For undergraduate study, he was accepted at Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Stanford, Harvard and MIT, creating a pleasant dilemma in choosing a school.
Arup’s sister Nandini Sarma is also equally talented and intelligent. Although she did not exactly follow her brother’s footsteps, she did proceed by creating her own footsteps.
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Nandini Sarma
Nandini graduated from high School on May 21, 2008. Besides high school diploma, she will also receive International Baccalaureate diploma for satisfactorily completing highly rigorous courses during her high school years. Like her brother, she also possesses outstanding academic credentials. Nandini is not only an academically advanced student, but she also demonstrated outstanding leadership and involvement in community service, athletics, dance and music and numerous extracurricular activities. She is also her high school’s valedictorian.
Nandini received numerous awards, recognition and honors at local, state, regional, national and international levels during her high school years. She is a National Merit Scholar (finalist), Kansas ACT Scholar, Kansas Honors Scholar, Kansas Governor’s Scholar, AP Scholar with honor, 2008 Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholar, a member of National Honor Society, officer of the Spanish National Honor Society, distinguished member of National Forensic League, three times Grand Award winner at the Greater Kansas City Science and Engineering Fair, Intel ISEF Award winner for 3 years in a row, Award of Distinction and Vic. Regnier Award Winner for 3 years in a row at the Shawnee Mission R&D Forum, 2004 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge Semifinalist, 1st Place Award winner of the 2005 SPE International Science Essay Contest, 4th Grand Award winner in Medicine and Health in 2005 Intel ISEF, AVASC Foundation’s 2nd Special Award winner in Microbiology at the 2006 Intel ISEF, 1st place Award winner for 4 years in a row at the Kansas-Oklahoma-Nebraska Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, 1st Place Grand Award winner in Microbiology in 2007 Intel ISEF, 1st Place National Award winner from US Army, 1st Place National Award winner from US Air Force, 2007 Ceres Connection winner (a minor planet named “nandinisarma”), selected to represent USA and present research paper at the 2007 International Youth Science Forum, London, invited student Guest Speaker at the 2007 International Youth Science Forum, Portugal, Person of the Year 2007 (State of Assam, India), National Winner of $20,000 scholarship at the 2007 Siemens Competition in Math. Science & Technology, 2008 Intel STS Semifinalist, 2008 Coca-Cola Scholar ($10,000 scholarship winner) for outstanding achievement in academics, leadership and services to the community, 2008 Toyota Community Scholar ($10,000 scholarship winner) for leadership and outstanding service to the community, Kansas Elk’s Association’s most Valuable Student Award winner, Shawnee Mission Education Foundation’s Student Leadership award winner for outstanding academic achievement and leadership in the school district and member of the All-state Academic Team, Kansas.
For the 2008 International Youth Science Forum to be held in London in July, Nandini has been selected as the only representative from USA for an all expense paid trip to serve as a counselor in the forum. Recently, Nandini also published a research paper titled, “siRNA that deplete the Cellular Translation Factor eIF4H, Impede mRNA Degradation by the Virion Host Shutoff Protein of Herpes Simplex Virus” in a globally reputed microbiology journal, the Journal of Virology. Besides this, her research on cancer and food preservatives have already been published in other scientific journals and conference proceedings during the last 4 years.
For undergraduate study, Nandini has been accepted to all the Universities she applied for including Princeton, Yale, Stanford, MIT and Harvard. Finally, Nandini decided to attend Harvard from this fall.
By Jugal Kalita, CO
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