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Eric Eng, Founder and CEO
BA, Princeton University
Eric Eng is the Founder and CEO of AdmissionSight and has over 15 years of experience guiding students through the college admissions process. Eric graduated with a BA from Princeton University and has one of the highest track records in the industry of placing students into Ivy League schools and top 10 universities. Eric was a National Merit Scholar, National AP Scholar, USA National Chemistry Olympiad Top 500 in the country, Siemens Westinghouse Competition Semifinalist Top 300, received the Caltech Signature Award for creativity in math and science, and won numerous other national accolades. He’s been featured on US News & World Report for his insights on college admissions, and knows exactly how to get into the very best schools. You can also find him regularly blogging on Quora with over 7 million views.
Matt, Senior Consultant
BA, USC Film School
Matt is a Senior Consultant at AdmissionSight and leads our Senior Editor College Application Program. Matt is a gifted writer and his work has been featured on The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, SportsCenter, CNN, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Ad Week, SlashFilm, Disney, and Vice. He is also Warner Brothers Television Fellowship and PAGE screenwriting competition finalist. Matt earned a BA in Film Production from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, the #1 film school in the country where he received a full tuition Trustee Scholarship for academic excellence.
John, Senior Consultant
BA, Harvard University
John is a Senior Consultant at AdmissionSight and has over 10+ years experience with college applications, essays, and SAT/ACT tutoring for Math, Reading, and Writing. John helps students craft together powerful personal statements for college admissions, summer program applications, transfer admissions, and graduate school admissions. John graduated from Harvard with a degree in neurobiology and English, which allows him to teach many different students with varied talents and interests. Moreover, John believes that every student has their own way of learning, so his primary goal is to adapt to their needs and strengths. Ultimately, he aims to uplift a student’s voice and help them tell a story to colleges that only they can tell.
Preetham, Research Scientist and Senior Consultant
BS in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Preetham is a Research Scientist and Senior Consultant at AdmissionSight and is studying at Carnegie Mellon University in Computer Science with a concentration in Machine Learning. He has experience in leading impactful nonprofits in tech education and child poverty, and earned a perfect score in the Platinum Division of the USA Computing Olympiad (USACO). He has conducted machine learning research with neural networks on EEG sleep recordings to minimize sleep inertia. He has also worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory as a teaching assistant, teaching numerous students about fundamental machine-learning topics. Preetham has a strong background in machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, and algorithms.
Adi, Research Scientist and Senior Consultant
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Adi is a Research Scientist and Senior Consultant at AdmissionSight and has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where he built a portable and affordable digital health diagnostics device that utilized magnetic-sensing technology to rapidly detect viral biomarkers in humans with just several droplets of blood. His invention won the Distinguished Prize Award in an international digital health competition held by the prestigious XPRIZE foundation. He received his BSc and MSc both in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he focused on semiconductor device research. While at Caltech, he volunteered in the admission office as an admission application reviewer for undergraduate admissions.
Pragya, Research Scientist
MS in Data Science, Duke; MS in Power Systems Engineering, IIT Roorkee
Pragya is a Research Scientist at AdmissionSight with a MS in Data Science from Duke University and MS in Power System Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee. Pragya’s academic research focuses on deep learning, machine learning and generative AI. She worked in a climate trace project where she was instrumental in developing a high-resolution deep learning model using satellite-derived features to estimate global greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, she is working on a project to build a computer vision model for the autonomous identification of key-points from hip and knee radiographs, aimed at reducing limb deformity following orthopedic trauma. Her abstract on this work has been accepted various conferences including Orthopedic Trauma Association (OTA).
Ethan, Research Scientist
BS in Neuroscience, UCLA
Ethan is a Research Scientist at AdmissionSight and graduated with a BS in Neuroscience and a minor in Entrepreneurship from UCLA. There, he led a non-profit that focused on mentoring science to underserved students and inspired them to address fascinating real-world world questions through their science experiments, for which he won the Charles E Young Humanitarian Award. After UCLA, he went on to be a fellow in machine learning at Google where he worked on computer vision and natural language processing models using TensorFlow, Keras, OpenCV, and NLTK and optimized such models across cloud GPU’s. Ethan has deep experience in machine learning, big data, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and natural language processing.
George, Senior Consultant and Research Scientist
MSE in Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
George is a Senior Consultant and Research Scientist at AdmissionSight. He leads our Passion Project and Science Research Programs as well as teaches the SAT Math and Reading, AP exams, and AMC10/12 math competitions. George graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an MSE in Computer and Information Science, as well as New York University with a BA in Math and Computer Science. While at UPenn, he worked as a research assistant on a Natural Language Processing (NLP) project, as part of which he enhanced state-of-the-art NLP algorithms to help robots understand human commands. This project resulted in a paper that was published in the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) conference. George has a strong background in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and mathematics.
Ota, Senior Consultant
BSE, Princeton University
Ota is a Senior Consultant at AdmissionSight and has deep experience helping students navigate the complex admissions process. In addition, Ota teaches the SAT and has achieved 5’s on Calculus BC, Biology, Physics C, and Computer Science. His focus is on college application and strategy, as well as private individual tutoring helping students perform at a high level on standardized tests. Ota studied Computer Science and Engineering at Princeton University.
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