Soumil Bhandari

Hi, I'm Soumil. I'm a computer engineering student at Purdue. Right now most of my time goes to AI research at Perforated AI, where I work on dendritic model compression, and to the electronics on Purdue Formula SAE.

Before that I was in the TMS lab at Harvard Medical School, did research at IIT Roorkee, and wrote software at McKesson and Tekizma.

If you're building something nearby, I'd genuinely like to hear about it, so email me.

Selected work

• 2026Telemetry receiver PCB, Purdue FSAEMy first board. It picks up the car's telemetry link.
• 2026Dendritic compression, Perforated AIShrinking trained networks by pruning along dendritic structure.
• 2026SecuriVaxA cold-chain monitor that tells you whether a vaccine is still good. Best Overall at HopHacks.
• 2026TMS classification, Harvard Medical SchoolClassifying motor evoked potentials from EMG for closed-loop TMS.
• 2026You2Open source.
• 2025Three provisional US patentsMultimodal neurodegenerative modelling, out of the Neurafy work.

• 2026Telemetry receiver PCBPurdue FSAE. My first board, schematic to bring-up.
• 2026SecuriVaxA cold-chain monitor that tells you whether a vaccine is still good. Best Overall at HopHacks.
• 2026FlipperA real-estate deal-sourcing engine. 500+ properties surfaced, $1.2M+ in identified spread.
• 2026NeuraBandA pill-sized wearable streaming ten neurological biomarkers over BLE.
• 2026StanderdsA 2D document format for standards, manuals, and policies.
• 2026ATLASClassifying motor evoked potentials from EMG for closed-loop TMS.
• 2026nanoDLMThe nanoGPT of masked diffusion language models, in ~1,000 lines of PyTorch.
• 2026Locked In MeterReal-time focus tracking from eye, head, and hand motion. Webcam only.
• 2024Notes360.aiAI note-taking, grown to 1,000+ students across five schools.
• 2024RhetorificationTurns a Word doc of debate evidence into a navigable card stack.

Where I’ve worked

• 2026Perforated AIAI research. Dendritic model compression.
• 2026Purdue Formula SAEElectronics. Telemetry and data acquisition.
• 2026Harvard Medical SchoolResearch intern, TMS lab under Dr. Aapo Nummenmaa.
• 2025NeurafyFounder. Alzheimer's progression modelling; three provisional patents.
• 2025IIT RoorkeeResearch intern. XGBoost at 92%+; LLaMA-2 and Flan-T5 via LoRA.
• 2025McKessonSoftware engineering intern. GPT pipelines over 1M+ clinical records.
• 2023Tekizma Inc.Software engineering intern. spaCy and Hugging Face NLP modules.

Awards

• 2026HopHacks, Fall 2026Best Overall Hack, for SecuriVax.
• 2026Y Combinator Startup SchoolSelected from 35,000+ applicants, top 4%.
• 2025Virginia State Science FairRecognised by Leidos, Yale Science & Engineering, and the Office of Naval Research.
• 2024AP Scholar with DistinctionCollegeBoard, multiple consecutive years.
• 2023Distinguished Intern AwardTekizma. The only intern recognised multiple consecutive years.

October 2026

• I'm routing and bringing up the telemetry receiver board for FSAE.
• Dendritic model compression at Perforated AI, where most of my week goes.
• And writing up that FSAE board, mostly the parts I got wrong on the first spin.