Sahasra Yellepeddi

AI/ML for intelligence analysis

Lead conservation programs reaching 2M+ youth in 146 nations; Advise UN partners, NOAA, State Dept, White House CEQ; Advance High Seas Treaty advocacy

1/11 appointed to the National Youth Advisory Board. Represented 10k+ membership; supported structural transition from the UN Foundation to the Global Fund for Children; advised on organizational strategy/long-term direction. Led the Global Perspectives subcommittee, building programs (#BeyondBorders initiative) to demystify critical issues in the Global South, increase their accessibility to U.S. girls, and mobilize collective action.

Student Staff in The MITRE Corporation’s Emerging Technologies Student R&D Program (~1% selected). Advisor: Dr. James Ellenbogen, Chief Scientist for Nanotechnology and Emerging Technologies Evolved a novel work function–prediction methodology for planar and buckled 2D materials, enabling their tailored development toward catalytic and energy applications.

Open Philanthropy-funded global fellowship (150/7,000+ applicants). Climate-driven geopolitical risk research using Python, Bayesian inference, and probabilistic forecasting—modeling relationships between climate change-induced resource scarcity and nuclear escalation to inform economic, military, and foreign policy.

U.S.–Greenland–Denmark collaboration on Arctic and polar climate systems research under the mentorship of Dartmouth College faculty (NSF-supported).

Determined orbit of near-Earth Asteroid 2009 KD5 using the Method of Gauss, Python programming, vector calculus, and linear algebra. Utilized original observations taken from the Tortugas Mountain Observatory (NM), McDonald Observatory (TX), Haleakala Observatory (HI), and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (Chile). Results published by IAU Minor Planet Center. Co-authored final report submitted to faculty.

ACT: 36 E/M/R/S