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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">&nbsp; &nbsp; Valliappa Chockalingam (Valli) is a student interested in technology, physics, and psychology. He is currently a rising sophomore pursuing a B.E. in computer science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. As other educational qualifications go, he earned the International Baccalaureate Diploma in 2013.&nbsp;</span>

<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">&nbsp; &nbsp;In terms of work experience, he was an IA (Instructional Aide) for EECS 203 (Discrete Mathematics) during his winter semester freshman year, and will be continuing the forthcoming semester. He has also worked as an intern at iVista solutions and EdGE networks, two tech. startups located in his hometown, Bangalore. At iVista solutions, he learnt web server development and web design techniques, and at EdGE networks, he learnt about natural language processing and machine learning. Additionally, at Taneja Aerospace, the largest private airport in India, he worked on aircraft design and aero-modeling.</span>

<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">&nbsp; &nbsp;Through his varied interests, he has taken part in many competitions and “hackathons” and research, a notable accomplishment being that he recently completed interesting research on water and food purity. This research study involved water samples and liquified food samples that were placed into an ultrasonic interferometer (an instrument that measures the velocity of sound in a given substance) after which calculations were done to determine the purity. The higher the velocity the more the impurities. Different tables with graphs in both 2 dimensions and 3 dimensions were made to interpret this data. The usefulness of this research being that food adulteration and water purity can be easily measured just through a sound wave. This could potentially affect consumer choice and safety along with having major environmental impacts.&nbsp;</span>

<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">&nbsp; &nbsp;In the future, Valli plans to complete his undergraduate degree and start a company focussed on his interest, developing futuristic technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, and genetic engineering by doing research and coming up with solutions to today’s plaguing problems. In a nutshell, he hopes to, in whichever small way, turn today’s world into a rather utopian world often seen in science fiction movies like Star Wars.</span>