An aspiring aerospace engineer: F1 aerodynamics, propulsion, and the physics of making a thing move.
Isle of Skye, Scotland / 2026
I grew up in Ludhiana, Punjab, and study at Woodstock School, taking HL Physics, Math AA, and Computer Science in the IB Diploma. My focus is aerospace engineering where I hope to learn about aerodynamics & propulsion.
Outside class, I love building things. I've shipped many AI-powered web apps, developed a React Native app to tackle teen drunk-driving in my hometown, and published research on the risks of digital trading. I co-founded my school's AI Club, lead the yearbook as Editor in Chief, and used to play first chair violin in the Advanced Orchestra. I've competed in varsity football and basketball, interned in product development and CAD, and served on the Academic Honesty Council (AHC) & NHS.
Personally I feel drawn to problems that reward not just rigor but also creativity: from modeling 4th-down football decisions with game theory for my Extended Essay to studying how a paper plane's wing generates lift for my IA.
F1; My Childhood Love
I was three years old in a red toy Formula 1 car before I knew what a car really was, and I have been chasing the same feeling ever since. F1 introduced me to physics: that races are won and lost in how air bends around a machine, that a wing is just an upside-down piece of metal, that seconds are gained and lost through millimeters. This obsession with aerodynamics grew up alongside me.
But aerodynamics is not the full story. Propulsion is what actually currently attracts me to it, ironic right? Thrust perplexes me: how you take stored energy and turn it into controlled, enormous force, how a column of plasma or a breath of burning air can move a body through a sky or past an atmosphere. I think aerodynamics is how a machine survives the unforgiving air but propulsion is how it refuses to be affected by it. That is why I love aerospace.
Things I've designed, built, and shipped.
A mobile app built to reduce teen drunk-driving in my hometown, featuring role-based flows, OTP authentication, real-time ride dispatch tracking, and UPI payments. Currently unpublished due to complications; read about it in my medium article.
An interactive Navier-Stokes fluid-flow simulator that lets you draw flows and watch the equations resolve in real time, built as a teaching tool for physics and math classrooms.
A web app that recreates the night sky described in Alan Lightman's "Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine," built as part of my work with him.
A tool that solves and updates daily answers for New York Times puzzles (Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee), built for the daily players who need a nudge, or a full solution to save their streak.
An AI-powered personal finance advisor that gives users tailored, conversational guidance on budgeting, investing, and financial planning. NOT LEGAL FINANCIAL ADVICE lol.
An AI timetable and schedule maker that builds balanced, personalized study and activity plans, designed for students trying to manage both academics and extracurriculars.
I noticed a lack of alumni-student connections in my school so I built an alumni networking platform for Woodstock School (my school) students and alumni. It attempts to reconnect graduates with current students through a full-stack web app. Currently runs locally (It is my CS IA, will publish after final IBDP submission).
Published work and ongoing investigations.
International Journal of High School Research (IJHSR), Vol. 8, Issue 12, 2026(Paper begins on page 89 of the issue.)
Digital trading platforms like Robinhood, Groww, and Zerodha have made market access a few clicks away for anyone, educated or not. This paper examines that double-edged shift, covering gamification, finfluencers, and the real cost of frictionless trading. Digitization is useful, but for financially illiterate users, it is a trapdoor.
Independent Research, July 2026
Four documentaries claim an F1 car could drive upside down in a tunnel. None say how fast. This paper builds a ground-effect model of a 2022 to 2025 car and shows the honest answer is not a speed but a window, from 208 km/h where the car can finally hold its own motion, up to 327 km/h where its floor gets dragged into the ceiling.
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Curriculum Vitae
Everything about my last few years condensed into two pages.
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