This 16-year-old is building AI apps that could revolutionize healthcare
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A 16-year-old high school student from Palo Alto, California, has gained widespread recognition for utilizing AI to build applications that help advance healthcare solutions.
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Adrit Rao, currently a research intern at Stanford University, has developed AutoABI, an iOS app that detects peripheral arterial disease (PAD) by listening to arterial sounds in the ankles. Clinical trials, as well as a patent application, are underway.
The Indian American prodigy has also worked on A4, an AI system that measures abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) from CT scans, and contributed to Stanford’s Spezi, an open-source framework for building digital health apps.
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Rao began coding at age 8 with simple block programming. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he taught himself how to make apps using YouTube and other online resources.
He won Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) Swift Student Challenge at age 12. This landed him a meeting with CEO Tim Cook.
At 13, he joined Stanford for a research internship. He has since focused on building AI-powered apps for healthcare and co-authored over a dozen research papers.
The Palo Alto High School junior has also developed non-health apps currently available on the App Store. These include MoTV, which provides information on movies and TV shows; Signer, which translates sign language gestures into speech; Virtuthon, which allows for a virtual walkathon experience; and Get Involved Service Hours, which helps students track their community service hours.
He is also the founder and CEO of Aretech Inc., a nonprofit that teaches app development to young people. Additionally, he is a board member of the Get Involved Foundation, which he collaborated with for his community service hours app.
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