Honors
1 of 4 US youth representatives to the World Economic Forum Annual meeting in Davos
Curator for the World Economic Forum Global Shaper, Los Angeles Hub
Panelist, World Islamic Economic & Finance Conference, Kuala Lumpur
Keynote Speaker and startup competition judge at NAPEC (North American Professionals and Entrepreneurs Conference),
Speaker at the U.S. Islamic Economic & Finance Conference
Alumni speaker for incoming LAS freshman at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
TEDx IIT speaker (Featured in Forbes)
Awards
Winner Global PACT HealthCare App Challenge - most innovative Diabetes management solution.
Finalist, American Heart Association Venture Challenge, Scientific Sessions - tied for audience favorite along with EKO Health ($125M+ in funding)
Grand Prize Winner for Affordable Care Act 2.0 competition
Winner, GBM (Brain Cancer) hackathon
Finalist, American Diabetic Association Venture to Stop Diabetes Challenge
2nd place Cigna Hackathon
2nd place Paypal Chicago Hackathon
Top 8, Health Hacks at Stanford Medicine
Winner, American Muslim Storyteller Grant
3rd place, Spokeo Hackathon
Winner, Illinois Fifty For The Future
2nd - MIT enterprise forum whiteboard challenge
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Enterprise Forum Chicago selected 10 finalists to present their ideas at the Feinberg school of medicine. I won second place at the event and was the only undergraduate student competing.
Finalist, The Lemelson-MIT Illinois Student Prize - administered by the Technology Entrepreneur Center in the College of Engineering, is awarded on an annual basis to a senior or graduate student who has created or improved a product or process, applied a technology in a new way, redesigned a system, or demonstrated remarkable inventiveness in other ways. Only undergraduate finalist that year.
Winner - Knapp Entrepreneurship center video elevator pitch competition
Winner of the university wide elevator pitch competition.
Finalist - Entreprenuer Idol at Northwestern University
A national business pitching competition with over 30+ teams.
Semi Finalist, I2P Idea to Product Illinois-Missouri Regional Competition:
Regional stage of the international Idea to product competition.
IEA idea challenge, University-wide business idea/service competition. Secured 2nd, 3rd, 9th and 10th positions working with teams consisting of undergraduate and graduate students from different colleges.
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