Hi, I'm Ayaan Syed Imam. I find who the market leaves out, then build the way in.

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I build the model that finds who the market left out, then I build the thing that lets them in.

I am Ayaan Syed Imam, a Grade 12 IB student and School Captain at The Heritage School, Kolkata. My research and my service are the same project. I published two papers before this application cycle: M-ROLL, a regime-switching portfolio model in IJFMR, and a rare-earth supply-shock classifier in an ABDC-indexed journal that called both 2025 Chinese restrictions about 28 days early from free data. The third paper came from a turf. Coaching 400 children with disabilities every week at Prayatna, I kept asking what happens to them at 25, and I answered with a 1.29-million-record study of disability-correlated exclusion in credit scoring. The same instinct built a Hinglish voicebot for a microfinance recovery team, a wristband that turns a referee's whistle into a vibration, and three letters of intent from employers. This year I won an eight-way captaincy election, ran Youthopia for 3,000 people and $70K, took first prize at Young India Innovates for the wristband, and donated two assistive tools to the Academy of Skill Development. The tension I am working through: whether the best use of a quantitative mind is to beat the market or to widen who gets into it.