Anagha Shah
Mumbai, India · anagha@anaghashah.com · anaghashah.com
English (fluent), Gujarati (native), Hindi (fluent), Spanish (basic, continuing)
EDUCATION
Jamnabai Narsee School, Mumbai2012 to 2027
- Indian School Certificate (ISC), Science: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Economics, English (2025 to 2027)
- Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), 98.2% (2025)
HONORS
All India topper in Social Science and Gujarati, ICSE2025
Excellence in Academics, Grade 10. Nominated for Best Pupil (5 of 288 students)2025
Excellence in Academics, Grade 9, top 2% of 288 students2024
Gold CREST Award, British Science Association, for CoughScope2026
ExSTEMplar ASTRYC: Phase 3 Finalist, invited to the Phase 4 Final Showcase, for CoughScope2026
SASMO (Singapore and Asian Schools Math Olympiad): Perfect Score, Global Rank 12026
Cambridge Economics and Finance Competition: Gold Award, qualified for the Global Round2026
Canadian Chemistry Contest: Asian Silver Award and Special Merit Award2026
International Economics Olympiad: Silver Award2026
S.T. Yau High School Science Award (Asia): shortlisted for the second round (Biology), for TechFlow2025
Technovation Girls: Senior Division Semifinalist, for TechFlow2025
RESEARCH
CoughScope: low-cost COPD screening with spirometry and acoustic analysis2025 to 2026
- Built a dual-modality screener on an ESP32 combining portable spirometry with lung-sound analysis.
- Implemented baseline correction, filtering and normalization. Extracted DFT and MFCC features.
- Trained SVM, KNN, decision tree and shallow neural network classifiers: 92.5% accuracy in COPD versus non-COPD classification across 56 clinical participants.
- Shared a working guidebook with the health teams of two NGOs, which agreed to host on-site testing at their health camps.
- Gold CREST Award, British Science Association, June 2026.
TechFlow: menstrual flow estimation using image-based machine learning2024 to 2026
- Built a dataset of real and 100 hand-prepared samples varying color, volume and viscosity, since no image database existed.
- Applied YOLO object detection and HSV color segmentation: about 85% accuracy predicting flow category.
- Presented to the Deputy Lead of Gynecology at R. N. Cooper Municipal Hospital and the K-West Ward Health Officer.
- Published in IJSHRE, Volume 13, Issue 10, October 2025 (DOI 10.26821/IJSHRE.13.10.2025.131006). Co-authors: Divya Madhavan, Vinay Vishwakarma.
ISC coursework research2025 to 2027
- RC circuit capacitor charging and discharging using differential equations (Grade 12 Mathematics)
- Accuracy of early disease detection models using conditional probability and Bayes’ theorem (Grade 12 Mathematics)
- Capacitor charging and discharging dynamics (Grade 11 Physics)
- An analysis of the role of green chemistry in a sustainable future (Grade 11 Chemistry)
ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE
Software Engineering Intern, NWDCo. Software Solutions, Mumbai: LA Vision smart glasses2026
- One of three interns selected through the school Co-Op program for a one-month full-time placement in a four-person team.
- Built a Flutter app holding a real-time Bluetooth Low Energy and Wi-Fi link to smart-glasses hardware.
- Chained speech-to-text, language processing, image understanding and text-to-speech into one hands-free loop, with media control and Google Maps navigation.
- Reverse-engineered the glasses’ undocumented communication protocol and designed a real-time logging framework to trace device-to-app faults.
Industrial Engineering Intern, Starways Group, Mumbai2025
- Three-week placement (one week on site) following precision-machined parts from raw material to final inspection.
- Mapped cold-forming line workflows and analyzed shift output, CNC cycle-time and downtime logs. Report reviewed by the plant supervisor.
Observer, EcoBox Industrial Parks, Mumbai (company founded by my father)2024 to 2026
- Analyzed six months of electricity data for two tenants: load factor, power factor and demand utilization against sanctioned capacity. Reviewed by the electrical consultant.
- Converted parcel volumes into dock requirements for a 425,000 sq ft warehouse in an Excel scenario model. Visited the Bhiwandi site.
Industrial study tour: Yazaki, Haier, Hindustan Electric Motors (Pune and Vapi)2025
ROBOTICS
FIRST Tech Challenge, Team G-Force #19013, programmer2023 to 2024
- FTC India Championship 2024: won all matches and scored 281 points, a national record, in a field of 59 teams. Winning Alliance, Connect Award 2nd runner-up and Compass Award (team).
- Asia Pacific Open, Sydney 2024: represented India in a 23-team field. Finalist Alliance, Judges’ Choice Award and Promote Award (team).
- Mentored 12 students from SSRVM’s Dharavi Dynamites, who placed 15th nationally. Raised the rupee equivalent of about USD 8,500.
- As part of Team G-Force, helped train two FIRST LEGO League teams for their 2024 national competitions.
- Sent biweekly STEM newsletters to a list of 8,000 schools. Presented to 200+ principals at the Eduleaders Summit, where 12 agreed to open STEM labs.
LEADERSHIP
ISC House Representative, Akbar House, Student Council2026 to 2027
- Elected by the ISC section of 269 students to lead 90+ students through 15+ events (3 trophies). Built a student-interest tracker for selections.
- Led the inter-house fashion show: auditioned 50+, directed 20. Best Costume for Male Ensemble.
- Mentored about 20 students on ISC science projects. Encouraged 30+ new students to join the school MUN.
House Captain, Akbar House2024 to 2025
- Led 280+ students in Grades 6 to 10 through 45 events. 4 trophies and 3rd place overall.
Chair, UNEP Senior Committee, JNS Annual World Summit2026
- Chaired a 25-delegate inter-school committee, wrote the research guide and mentored three delegates.
Best Delegate and Best Position Paper, IMUN. High Commendation, JNS Annual World Summit2023
ISDS Debate: top 6 speakers of 54, team qualified for nationals2023
Team Leader, EUmIND World of Work virtual exchange with the Netherlands. Certificate of Excellence2023 to 2024
Co-founder and admin, ISC Book Club (40+ students)2025 to present
Founder, Page Turners Book Club (40 members)2020 to 2026
Founding member, Women in STEM Club2025 to 2026
SERVICE
Founder, The Helping Hands Club2017 to present
- Raised INR 2 lakh through a book-sale fundraiser with about 10 partner organizations, funding supplies for 300 children orphaned during COVID and the continuing education of three girls.
- Ran Teen Tech Tutor: taught 10 senior citizens and 3 domestic staff online banking and everyday technology.
Founder, FemEngineers2024 to present
- Guidance initiative and podcast for girls considering engineering, with experts in applied physics, cybersecurity and software engineering.
Read India Read app concept, MIT Appathon. Field-tested with students from Saaksharta2023
Scribe for two students with learning differences in Grade 10 board exams2024
ARTS AND INTERESTS
Kathak, Nalanda Dance and Research Centre: seven-year program, annual performances, taught community students2016 to 2023
Speech and Drama, Trinity College London: Distinction across all grades to Grade 82012 to 2023
TED-Ed Club speaker: four talks2020 to 2024
Published short story “Ctrl + Z” in the anthology Silence2025
ECO2 Smart Schools Climate Summit (COP 26 to 28): built and presented an energy-harvesting tile2020 to 2023
Basketball: school team in inter-school competitions
SKILLS
Python, Java, Flutter, MIT App Inventor, HTML. Coursera: AI for Medical Diagnosis (DeepLearning.AI).