JaiAnand
I study Biological Engineering at Cornell, build software for markets and money, and serve on the Student Assembly.
Ithaca, NY
Experience
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Umbrex
2026 – presentConsulting Fellow
Building an AI-driven business development pipeline that sources, scores, and ranks prospects for a consulting firm. Automated prospect research, CRM updates, and tailored outreach with Clay, replacing a manual workflow. Part of the 2026–27 cohort.
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Harvard Summer School
Summer 2026Proctor & Recruitment Ambassador
Selected as a proctor for the Secondary School Program. Mentored 40+ high school students as their primary point of contact and led residential programming. Selected by program leadership to speak at recruitment webinars for applicants.
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Summers 2023 & 2024Research Intern
Led a first-author project on how lossy image compression, from 2:1 to 32:1, alters radiomic features in quantitative medical imaging. Analyzed about 1,950 features per organ in Python and R and quantified their stability at each compression ratio.
Projects
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Ghostcard
2026 – presentCo-founder & CTO
A consumer fintech platform that issues disposable virtual payment cards with spending controls. Interviewed 60 prospective users, led development of the MVP, and onboarded 200 beta users who processed $2,000 in test transactions. Preparing a pre-seed raise for Q4 2026.
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Market-making bot for Kalshi
2026 – presentDeveloper
A bot that posts two-sided quotes across Kalshi event-contract markets, with quoting logic built to provide continuous liquidity under the exchange's Liquidity Incentive Program.
Leadership
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Cornell Student Assembly
2025 – presentRepresentative At-Large and Chair of the Environmental Policy Committee
Elected to allocate $6.8 million a year to student organizations through the Finance Committee. Run weekly committee meetings and write legislative policy initiatives.
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Cornell Institutional Research & Planning
2026 – presentStudent Representative
Represent students on a faculty-chaired group for Cornell's Middle States (MSCHE) reaccreditation self-study, focused on the design and delivery of the student learning experience.
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Cornell Commodity Trading Club
2026 – presentExecutive Vice President
Lead a 30+ member club on commodity markets, running educational programming, market research, and guest speakers on how geopolitics and macro drive prices.
Education
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Cornell University
Class of 2029B.S. Biological Engineering
- E-Board, Interfaith Council
- E-Board, ALANA Intercultural Programming
- Duffield Engineering Ambassador