Use data science as a tool to empower overlooked communities, drive equity, and inspire the next generation of changemakers.
Parshv Patel is a first-generation, low-income student who transferred from India 2 years ago and is now an incoming Data Science major at UC Berkeley. After arriving in the U.S. in 11th grade and falling behind, he overcame cultural, financial, and emotional challenge, watching his mother work labor jobs and living apart from his father, to become the #1 ranked student at his school. Lacking academic resources, he followed his curiosity to earn programming certificates, build coding projects, and publish research, while leading as President of the Math Club and Co-Captain of the Varsity Tennis Team. His work explores machine learning, ethics, and data storytelling, including a model predicting SpaceX booster landings and analyses of algorithmic bias and teacher evaluation patterns. Now an Amazon Future Engineer Scholar, QuestBridge Finalist, and Greenhouse Scholar, he is driven to build AI tools that promote equity in healthcare, education, and climate change. Every setback has taught him resilience, humility, and the power of community, values that guide his mission to not just understand nature through data, but to improve it.
Leadership:
- Math Club, President
- Think Together Program, Student Leader
- Varsity Tennis, Co-Captain
