prahalad.dev

Profile, awards, UAVs, and ML.

Eastlake High School student in Sammamish focused on mechanical engineering, embedded systems, aerospace, awards, and the practical side of machine learning.

Profile

What shows up on the profile.

The public LinkedIn surface is the fastest way to understand the rest of the site: awards, school involvement, and the mix of technical and competition work.

About

Rising senior at Eastlake High School

I'm interested in mechanical engineering, embedded systems, and aerospace, and I'm applying to college for fall 2027 with a focus on ME and hardware.

Skills

Python, Java, Arduino, AutoCAD, machine learning

The technical stack that shows up across the profile and the projects on this site.

Award

Global Youth Entrepreneurship Competition

International finalist, reflecting the business and teamwork side of the profile.

Award

National Merit Semifinalist

College Board recognition added in May 2026.

Award

National History Day International Finalist

Listed on the profile with a September 2023 date.

Award

AP Scholar with Distinction

College Board recognition shown for 2025 and 2026.

Community

Eastlake Computer Science Honor Society

Part of the school CS community alongside project and competition work.

Projects

Technical work, but not the whole identity.

The model repo is still here, but it sits beside the UAV work instead of defining the page.

UAV on a workbench with tools and telemetry on a laptop

UAV project

Flight hardware and systems work

A separate lane for the UAV side of the portfolio: hands-on engineering, integration, and the kind of work that sits around a flying system.

Pipeline overview for the N-CMAPSS RUL prediction project

Research

N-CMAPSS engine prediction

A reproducible pipeline for remaining useful life prediction on NASA turbofan data, with training, evaluation, and benchmark reporting.

FD1 architecture leaderboard chart

Modeling

Model comparison as a side branch

22 registered architectures, controlled comparisons, and a lot of benchmarking detail. Useful, but not the headline of the site.

Research

Applied machine learning, kept in its lane.

The N-CMAPSS work is still visible, but it reads like part of a broader engineering profile rather than the whole identity.

What the repo does

  • One data loader for FD00X splits
  • One training CLI and model registry
  • RUL metrics, plots, and experiment summaries
  • Cloudflare-ready site content linked back to the project
6.495 FD2 MSTCN RMSE in the controlled benchmark
22 Registered neural network architectures
MSTCN model architecture diagram
MSTCN remains in the portfolio, but as one technical thread inside the larger page.

Activity

School, competition, and engineering community.

Public LinkedIn-visible items turned into a concise activity list instead of a generic resume dump.

2026

National Personal Finance Challenge

Eastlake High School team reached the Round of 16, finishing in the top 10 out of 7,000+ teams and 20,000 students nationwide.

Eastlake

Computer Science Honor Society

Part of the school CS community while building projects that connect code, hardware, and real engineering constraints.

Now

Mechanical engineering and aerospace

Work spans embedded systems, UAVs, aerospace systems, and machine learning when the problem actually benefits from it.

Contact

Reach me at [email protected].

Email is the direct line. GitHub and LinkedIn are the longer-form backup.