Aditya Bikram Thakur
Math and computer science at Washington and Lee.
My story so far
I grew up in Pokhara, Nepal, under Machhapuchhre, the “fish tail” mountain.
Budhanilkantha School, Kathmandu: A Levels in Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science and Mathematics, with an A* in all four. Valedictorian. 1600 on the SAT.
August 2026, about 12,000 km later: Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. A math and computer science double major, on a full-ride scholarship.
Projects
DiatoMeter (September 2026 to now): with William & Mary’s Nano & Biomaterials Lab, measuring tiny glass algae shells; 136 shells measured in about 15 seconds. Visit DiatoMeter, source code.
Summer 2026, two projects of my own: walden.life, Thoreau’s Walden one day at a time; and SATitude, practice for the digital SAT.
Experience
2025, learning on my own: the Algorithms and Machine Learning specializations from Stanford, and Harvard’s CS50 AI (twelve projects).
Summer 2024, Incubate Nepal: frontend developer on Nepalingo, an open-source app for learning Nepal’s indigenous languages. I built the flashcards, daily quiz and activity cards, and merged 11 pull requests.
Summer 2023, Student Research Council Nepal: Lipi AI, an app that reads Tibetan inscriptions from a phone photo. I built the backend, splitting stacked letters so OCR can read them.