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Vir Shah

Experience & Projects

Experience and Projects

Group Tutor

UCSC Baskin School of Engineering – CSE-13S

Mar 2025 – Present

  • Led collaborative tutoring sessions for CSE-13S.
  • Helped students master systems programming concepts in C, including memory management, debugging, and low-level architecture.

Peer Review Board Member

UCSC Dean of Students

Feb 2025 – Present

  • Review and adjudicate student conduct cases using a restorative justice approach.
  • Ensured a fair, peer-driven process.

Intern

RemBrain AI

Aug 2024 – Present

  • Developing a voice-controlled interface for a robot dog.
  • Applied advanced Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) concepts to improve accessibility for non-technical users.

Dean’s Honors

UC Santa Cruz

2024 – 2025

  • Awarded Dean’s Honors for the Fall 2024 Quarter and Winter 2025 Quarter at UC Santa Cruz in recognition of outstanding academic achievement. This honor is awarded to students who complete a full-time course load (minimum 15 credits) and rank among the top students in their academic division based on GPA.

Scouting App Lead

FIRST Robotics Competition Team 114

Aug 2021 – Jun 2024

  • Managed a team of 7 engineers to build a React Native app with Supabase for data analysis and scouting.
  • Published on the App Store and Play Store.
  • Promoted adoption by 4 international teams within 2 months.
  • Generated scouting reports to drive alliance selection strategy.
  • Contributed to team’s regional wins and championship placement.

Web Design Lead

The Los Altos Investment Bowl

Jun 2023 – Jun 2024

  • Led a team of three to design the website for the event.
  • Taught best practices in Git, website design, and strengthened communication between leadership and members.

Developer

Los Altos Hacks

Oct 2022 – Mar 2024

  • Developed software and website for event promotion and registration.
  • Converted Figma designs to production using TailwindCSS.

1st Place – San Francisco Regional

FRC Robotics Team 114

2024

1st Place – Idaho Regional

FRC Robotics Team 114

2024

4th Place – East Bay Regional

FRC Robotics Team 114

2024

7th Place – Houston World Championships (Milstein Division)

FRC Robotics Team 114

2024

AP Scholar with Distinction

2023 – 2024

Intern

Sureel AI

Jun 2023 – Oct 2023

  • Improved the user experience in AI-image generation using Python.
  • Enabled previewing final image output without running the generation program, reducing compute costs.

Summer Intern

CareX.AI

Jun 2022 – Oct 2022

  • Developed a computer vision-based classifier to detect user demographics from a single image.
  • Improved vital-sign detection accuracy.

Parliamentary Debater

National Speech & Debate Association

Aug 2020 – Jun 2022

  • Competitor in Parliamentary-style debate.
  • Won the JV Parliamentary division of the 2022 Nueva Invitational Tournament.

JV Parliamentary Champion

Nueva Invitational – NSDA

2022