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Misha Nivota

Student, Poet, Dancer, Author and Instructor

About

Hi, my name is Misha Nivota. I live in Seattle, Washington and was born in 2005. I am a rising Senior at Eastside Preparatory School in Kirkland, WA. I love hanging out with my friends and family, playing ultimate, dogs, writing poems and practicing Kuchipudi dance (a traditional South Indian dance form).

At school, I love STEM subjects with particular interest in how technology and neuroscience come together to help people with disabilities. I conduct independent research in STEM fields and instruct and mentor young scientists.

Poetry and dance are my outlets of expressing myself to the world. I am an author with a book of my poems published on Amazon. And, I am a dance instructor at the school where I learn Kuchipudi.

Experience

  • [2022] Teaching Assistant for a 3-week summer camp on the Physics of Roller Coasters at University of Washington’s Robinson Center for Young Scholars
  • [2022] Teaching Instructor for summer camps on Mechanics and Circuitry and on Lego Robotics to 2nd – 5th grades with Young Whiz
  • [2022] Dance instructor for Kuchipudi junior classes at PCIPA Institute.
  • [2021-2022] Worked as an intern for a technology startup helping with business data management
  • [2021-2022] Tutored 5th & 6th grade students in math through 425Tutoring
  • [2020] Teaching Assistant for 8th grade Science class at school
  • [2015-2021] Authored and published a book of poems about life experiences called Life Through Poems on Amazon
  • [2021-] Organized social and cultural activities as Lead Member of Asian-, Pacific Islander-, Desi-American club at school
  • [2018] Represented school in Washington state-level competitions in FRC robotics competition

Advanced Coursework

  • Self-taught and passed AP Computer Science A
  • Self-taught and passed AP Calculus AB
  • Self-taught and passed AP Calculus BC
  • Completed several University of Washington computer science courses including:
    • Java programming, Python programming and Data structures courses
    • Machine learning course
  • Completed University of Washington Microbiology course to take an experimental approach to understand cell structure
  • Completed several Digital Media Academy courses including:
    • Game development, Mobile app development
    • Entrepreneurship and Business development at scale

Independent Study

  • Currently completing a research paper on Neural Decoding and Support Vector Regression to predict actions taken by subjects based on neural signals. The draft paper is in review by the Journal of Student Research.
  • Completed an Independent Study on Neural Interfaces at school including a project building a helmet that measures neural activity in humans.
  • Presented a video lectures on robotics in surgery, effect of genetics on drug addiction, and forensic science to my Advanced Biology class of nearly 20 students and faculty
  • Authored programs and ML models in Python, JavaScript, and Java in GitHub  

Skills

  • Familiar with Python, Java, R, and JavaScript
  • Familiar with machine learning – used neural networks such as K–Nearest Neighbors, Convolutional Neural Networks, and K-Means Clustering
  • Multi-lingual competency with Spanish, Telugu and English

Athletics

  • Member of the Ultimate Frisbee Varsity school team. Been a member of the Ultimate team since 5th grade

Indian Classical Dance (Kuchipudi)

Poetry

  • Authored and published a book of poems about life experiences called Life Through Poems on Amazon
  • Wrote lyrics for and performed in a drama highlighting challenges of depression in youth