Vikhyat Kethamukkala Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

District Of Columbia, United States

Research intern in South & Central Asia under Dr. Aparna Pande and Ambassador Husain Haqqani in Initiative on the Future of India and South AsiaWas part of a team of researchers who undertook archival and book research and writing for a book project on US- India relationsCompiled data and research for events, briefs and other writing for both Amb. Haqqani & Dr. Pande

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Manage two deputy directors to conduct outreach and create alumni/resume tracker databases for outside proliferation and internal organizationCurate professional workshops, speaker seminars, such as with: - Eric Traupe, former director of Near East at CIA - Sahil Jain, Special Assistant to Deputy Secretary South & Central Asia - Iael Duthilleul, Principal Education Technical Advisor at Council of Europe Development Bank - Moderated speaker Karen Schaefer - former chief of operations at CIA in directorate of science and technology - at HUFPI's summer international relations conferenceCurated internship/jobs newsletter throughout the semester with the Relations board for a chapter of 70+ policy associates

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Analyzed generative AI developments in North America (US and Canada), especially in the context of Chinese and Russian digital pursuits, for NATO as HUFPI policy associateSummarized key takeaways from Biden's October 2023 'Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence', including expert analyses Recommended courses of action for grappling with Chinese generative AI prominence and Russian misinformation strategies, such as enhancing private sector collaboration, integrating generative AI into federal scheme, and curating evolving frameworks for tracking AI

Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

Employed OSINT framework to identify key capital transfers between China and Azerbaijan, India, and Georgia in 2022 by reading, translating, and extracting financial commitments in embassy, MOFCOM, and other public reports to create 5+ projects that capture details on Chinese public capital flows as part of TUFF (Tracking Underrepresented Financial Flows) Analyzed 78 Azerbaijan-China, 100+ India-China, and 100 China-Georgia public communication records to augment financial flows project count for AidData Global Chinese Finance Development 2022 dataset

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Updated databases and data architectures for UI/UX implementation into new website for the organization Assisted in the development and management of databases used for long-term writing projects for various authors and researchers in South Asian studies, linguistics, East Asian studies, and archaeology in a novel, deconstructed database format to include visual multimedia elementsSpearheaded captioning and translation workflow for previously recorded lectures by academicians from France, Japan, Italy, and China

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Selected as one of 10 scholars in the class of 2025 in the humanitiesAttended NERC (Northeast Regional Conference) with Harvard cohort and participated in roundtable discussion with students from various attending schoolsThe Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program at Harvard is a tight knit fellowship community of undergraduate scholars who have interests in independent research in humanities and social sciences. The Harvard program is co-funded by the Mellon Foundation’s MMUF program and Harvard College. College supported fellows are Harvard Associate Fellows of the program. All fellows of the program have the same commitments to humanities and social sciences research that amplify multivocality in the scholarly record and toward diversifying the academy.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Assisting Dr. Edward Cunningham and Nazmul Haque's consultative research on Bangladeshi solar power for Prime Minister's Office Governance Innovation Unit (GIU)Researched and drafted introductory chapter of policy paper on fuel mixing and history of clean energy in Bangladesh as well as gap-risk analysis chapter

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Critically examined verse(s) from ancient Gandhārī manuscripts and compared parallel recensions regarding linguistic, phonetic, epigraphical, and philological propertiesAnalyzed various scholarly articles and research publications to develop understanding of archaeological and buddhalogical jargonAttended weekly reading group sessions and speaker sessions (eg. 'Old Tibetan Versions of the Sūtra of Limitless Life by Prof. Dr. Brandon Dotson of Georgetown University') with superiors and graduate students to practice Gandhārī and Sanskrit language skills (written)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Selected as a teaching fellow for Prof. Kelly McConville's spring 2023 Introduction to Statistics and Data Science (STAT100)Conducted weekly 'section' review sessions for a group of 20 students where we reviewed statistical topics, applied algorithms for practical data visualization/analysis problems, and enhanced understanding of the 'statistical world' through collaborationCo-lead weekend office hours and provided assistance to 30 students on average on a myriad of technical and conceptual issues, such as p-value interpretation, programming consistently, and mathematical visualization of curves and functionsCorrected final written and oral exams punctually

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Selected as a fellow of the (Summer Humanities and Art Research Program) SHARP summer 2021 cohort, a summer intensive research initiative for Harvard undergraduates to have an initial foray into academic research, or enhance existing skillsConducted research with Dr. Michael Witzel on theoretical language hierarchies in the Southern Indus River Valley (continued from June 2020) Analyzed lemma from five foreign language datasets to find common morphological roots initially through manual data scraping methods, but currently expanding into R data analysis and Python scriptingCompiled initial findings and presented to cohort

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Produced 53-page report for the US State Department Expo Unit regarding recommendations on improving Expo attendance at the US pavilion, drawing on nation branding techniques and data from prior hosts, such as Kazakhstan and ChinaIncorporated English/Italian news coverage and expert analyses of Milan 2015 technological sustainability efforts for US recommendations on pavilion experience enhancementCompiled research findings and presented results to State Department representatives on 13 January, 2022Curated biographical materials for 12 key regional experts and Expo attendees for interviews to enrich qualitative research conclusions

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba (Joint), South Asian Studies & Linguistics, Government; Language Citation: Sanskrit

Activities and Societies: Harvard University Foreign Policy Initiative (HUFPI) policy writer and researcher Harvard Brain editor (2021).

High School Diploma