about

Hi! I'm Aarushi, a CS student at UT Austin studying Computer Science with a Design Strategies certificate and an Entrepreneurship minor.

Right now I'm co-founding FrontRow, a startup that uses computer vision to bring the board to students in the classroom who can't access otherwise. I'm also doing systems research at LDOS, building AI safety tooling, and running a nonprofit I started at 12 that funds medical care for low-income patients. These things feel connected even when they look like they aren't.

I've gotten serious about AI safety and alignment over the last year. What interests me most is interpretability: getting from “this model works” to “we understand what it's doing and why.” I think that gap is one of the most important things to close right now, and I'm trying to work on it from a few different angles.

On the startup side: the projects I get most excited about are the ones where a hard technical problem has a real human need behind it. FrontRow started that way. There was something missing in accessible education, we built something for it, and it's been awesome seeing it actually used in classrooms.

Outside of this, I love to run, dance, paint, make jewelry, and always seem to have at least two books I'm reading at a time.