Hi 👋
I'm Varun Sahni
(aka skamr) Varun Sahni Gurugram, India
(aka skamr)
I'm a high school student from India with a passion for everything related
to computers—from the letter C to RAID0 and discussing the 42 million
JavaScript frameworks that were released last week. I'm also a huge fan of
open-source software and do my best to contribute whenever I can. My main
interest these days is Computer Engineering, specifically Computer
Architecture. I find it incredibly fascinating to learn how computers
work, and I'm eager to deepen my understanding of the subject (there's so much abstraction!)
Also, a pretty massive lover of music, film, VFX and editing. See more about
my interests
here
Education/Courses
The Shri Ram School, Moulsari
- IBDP Year 2 Student, 44/45 Predicted
- Completed IGCSE with A*s in all 9 subjects
- Secretary of Information, Communication and Technology (2023-2024)
- Head of Information, Communication and Technology (2024-2025)
2018-Present
Gurugram, HR, IN
University of California, Berkeley
Summer program: CS61C (A-), DATA8 (B+); 3.5GPA
June 2023-August 2023
Berkeley, CA, USA
Harvard's CS50x
Finished with verified certificate. Created Firewood as a final project.
2022
Online
Plaksha University, Young Tech Scholars
Summer program: Built a self-navigating robot using LIDAR, ultrasound and infrared sensors with Arduino and C++ from scratch.
June 2022
Projects
(click to see more!)
A super-simple video calling website
Interschool code optimization/development competition (see the site)
My favorite project from CS61C at UC Berkeley; RISC-V CPU in Logisim
My favourite DATA8 project; kNN movie classifier based on word usage
Medical management web-app, won ShriTeq Hackathon 2022.
Quiz-based game for awareness about AI-generated music, played by 150+ students
Minecraft mod with ~20K downloads
VFX and Editing Community with 100k+ site visits
Leader of school Hack Club
Intermediary site between the clear and dark web
Live data-streaming API
Interschool tech competition
Publications/Research
- Implementation of a Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network for the Detection of Gastrointestinal Disorders (2024)
Validation accuracy of 97.8% on the HyperKvasir dataset. Indexing on IEEE Xplore and Scopus is pending.
Awards
- 1st Place, ShriTeq Hack-a-thon 2022
- 'The Shri Ram School, Moulsari' Innovator Award 2023 x 2
- DIGEX 2023 Hi-Res (Documentary Competition) Runner's Up
Interests
Music
I love most genres of music.
I like to sing! Currently in Grade 3 of Rockschool Vocals.
My favourite artists are always changing; right now they're probably Coldplay, RHCP, Dominic Fike, James Blake, and Carter Ace (that's a lot!)
Gaming
My favourite games of all time are Minecraft and RDR2.
Social Work
Pure Hearts:
- Co-founder of Pure Hearts: a non-profit children's initiative that aims to do good and improve the community.