Sanil_desai

Junior / PLEME Student & Neuroscience Researcher at Brown University

sanil_desai@brown.eduAustin, TX

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- Got into CS as a kid because he was 'good at math,' started with video games, and became interested in modeling/training models and data collection through high school.
- Mom is a nurse; grew up hearing about medicine from her, started shadowing doctors and volunteering in medicine in high school, and had a few internships at a med school in Colorado working on healthcare policy and modeling access to healthcare.
- Applied to and joined Brown's PLEME program, drawn to the medicine+tech+neuroscience convergence, calling it 'a convenient little intersection' rather than a single lifelong plan.
- Summer internship at Kyowa Kirin (rare disease pharma, Japan HQ, NA office in Princeton) on an ML team using claims and EHR data to identify patients for rare diseases.
- Neuroscience research at the Dussauds Lab at Brown, analyzing intracranial stimulation data recorded by a neurosurgeon during epilepsy procedures to model patient reaction patterns and improve surgical targeting.
- Went to YC Startup School this summer; found much of it felt like 'LARPing' among high schoolers but met some interesting people and enjoyed a talk by Max Hodak on BCI.
- Dad works at Google on GCP hardware (previously at a chip startup); a friend pointed out that his own medicine+tech interest mirrors his mom (nurse) and dad (tech) backgrounds, which he'd never consciously connected before.

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Brown University — PLEME (combined medicine program), Neuroscience/CS intersection

Junior year (returning Sept 8)

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Interview — 2026-09-02Granola

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