As they say in Pittsburgh, hey yinz! (Okay that was awful. But regardless, hello!)
I’m Pranavi Rohit,
- 🎓 Electrical & Computer Engineering student at Carnegie Mellon, proud to be part of one of the top-ranked ECE programs in the country.
- 🧠 Researcher in CMU’s Kid Neuro Lab, where I build tools to support cognitive science and developmental research.
- 🤖 Deep Tech Institute Intern @ Pittsburgh Robotics Networks, one of 13 students selected for a cohort exploring robotics, AI, and deep tech through mentorship, site visits, and storytelling workshops.
I spend hundreds of hours debugging, fueling my caffeine addiction (my drink of choice is toasted chestnut tea 🍵), to design things that make complex systems feel a little more human.
With that mission in mind, this is what the past few years have looked like.
🔬 Building a novel automation tool for scoring psychological assessments (KBIT-2) in CMU’s Kid Neuro Lab—combining OpenCV, Tesseract, and Python into a clean GUI that saves hours of manual work and lifts the hidden labor off new researchers.
👉 See the 3-minute project video here! 👉 Check out the repository here!
🎂 Being flown out to the Harvard NORD Rare Disease Hackathon on my birthday! I co-developed Heatheria, an AI-powered, real-time heatmap and recruitment tool for rare disease trials. We built features to identify trial deserts, connect patients to nearby clinical opportunities, and visualize data for over 6,400 rare diseases.
👉 Check out the project memo here!
🧪 Researching at the Naval Medical Research Center (Neurotrauma Dept.), where I studied how blast exposure affects amyloid beta proteins in the brain — a key protein linked to Alzheimer’s. I presented this work at the 2023 Navy STEM Expo, contributing to ongoing research in brain trauma and neurodegeneration.