Hi! I'm Eshaal, a junior at UPenn, former Fulbright UKSI, and someone who was about to sneeze when they took this otherwise perfect River Thames photo.

I like pushing myself. I like being proven wrong. And I like writing about what I learned. Scroll for more.

SUMMARY

My one true goal in life is to become a polymath.

The more skillsets you can harness, the better you can actually build solutions that are of service to humanity. That's why I'm constantly reading, building (sometimes failing!), and writing about how I see different fields converge. Often, it gets metaphysical, and often, it leads to medicine, which I see as the frontier of human impact.

Beyond the Fulbright, I...
- Study Political Science (Bachelor's) and Biology (Master's)
- Map novel neuronal food-seeking pathways in mouse brains
- Am in a serious improv comedy troupe (catch the oxymoron?)
- Was a nationally ranked speech competitor in high school
- Dabble in entrepreneurship...

See my Substack for current thoughts, or scroll for my projects!

PROJECTS

Mapping drug access gaps in different countries (here, Singapore) using a unique start-to-finish data normalization/matching pipeline.

Measuring impact of the Brooklyn Debate League on debate representation in NYC... final project turned ongoing analysis.

More in progress...