Our Exceptional Alumni: College Admission Results
CCIR has always prided itself on the students we admit, and the work they are able to do with us—their stellar academic backgrounds, their curiosity, their passion, their steadfast commitment to intellectual excellence. It should be no surprise that our students then leave CCIR to go on to some of the best universities around the […]
Launching the CCIR Youth Impact Fund
Are you a high school student hoping to make an impact on your community? The CCIR Youth Impact Fund is a unique opportunity for young students to receive funding from CCIR to make a positive impact in their communities. Recipients of the CCIR Youth Impact Fund will be awarded the title of CCIR Youth Impact Fellow, […]
Saanvi’s Paper Presented at 2022 MIT IEEE Undergraduate Conference
Saanvi Mehta is a year 12 student at Mainland Regional Highschool in New Jersey. She is highly interested in pursuing biomedical engineering and has always loved engineering, as demonstrated by her extracurriculars. She’s on the two robotics team, one of which is the EHT PAL First Robotics Team, #1 first robotics team in the state […]
Sanay’s Paper on Language Model Published in the Stanford Journal of Science, Technology, & Society
Sanay Bordia (CCIR alumnus) a junior student at Archbishop Mitty High School in California is very passionate about Computer Science, Speech, Debate, and Sports. Previously, he ranked Top 10 at 10Pi Hackathon and Top 100 in the California Coast District in Speech and Debate. In CCIR, he joined the CCIR 1-on-1 mentorship programme, where he […]
George Pangalos on Financing for a Sustainable Dry Bulk Shipping Industry
At CCIR, George Pangalos conducts a research project on financing in the shipping industry, mentored by a professor from the University of Cambridge. His paper provides a framework to illustrate from a financial perspective the plethora of challenges and disruptions that have troubled the industry and the respective funding routes that prominent companies should take […]
Rohan’s Project Commercialised by AG Diagnostics, a Leading Pathology Lab in India
In his research paper, “Minimizing Costs of Covid-19 Biomedical Waste Collection Using Mixed Integer Linear Programming Approach,” Rohan Kalluraya (DLRC Foundation, India) explored the so-called Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem (MTSP) using a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) approach. The Traveling Salesman Problem is an extensively studied optimization problem. The problem is as follows: You are […]
The Future of Higher Education with Claire Gumus
Our guest this epsiode, Claire Gumus, has close to 15 years of experience with top tier schools in Canada and the US. At Columbia University in New York City, she has read thousands of applications, conducted interviews, and guided students and their families through the college application process. In this episode, Claire Gumus shares that […]
The Future of Higher Education with William Fenton
William Fenton, our guest this episode, has over 16 years of experience working in higher education, including as the Director of Graduate Recruitment for Drexel University’s School of Engineering and the Assistant Director of Admissions for the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Master’s in Higher Education […]
Ishaan’s Research Published at Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal
Ishaan Goswami is a student researcher in the 1-on-1 Research Mentorship programme, working under Dr Zarkan last summer. His research paper titled “A Bioinformatic Analysis of mecA Prevalence in Bacterial Species” has just been published in the Winter/Spring 2022 Issue of the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science. In his research paper, “A Bioinformatic Analysis of […]
Richard Jia presenting at the BSA Medical Sociology Conference as the youngest presenter ever
Richard Jia (Westlake Boys High School, New Zealand) is a student researcher in the 1-on-1 Research Mentorship programme, working in sociology under Dr Hande Guzel from the University of Cambridge. His paper “Redefining mental health: Marginalisation and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on understandings of mental disorders” has just been accepted for presentation at […]