I'm Mark Raspopov, a 14 year old full-time undergraduate student (sophomore) at California State University, Los Angeles, accepted through the Early Entrance Program (EEP) at age 12. I'm majoring in CS and minoring in Psychology, Biomedical Engineering, and Math.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Club at Cal State LA

Founder & President

September 2024 - Present

• Built a welcoming, inclusive environment for the AI/ML Club members
• Chaired executive committee meetings and hosted general member meetings
• Conveyed the executive committee's vision and general status to the Faculty Advisor
• Conducted project workshops

RoboSubLA Club at Cal State LA

Controls Team Lead

September 2024 - Present

• Led the Controls team, which takes commands from Autonomy, gathers sensor data, and controls motors using Arduino
• Organized weekly team meetings

• Was responsible for creating the decision tree to send commands to the Controls team
• Attended bi-weekly general meetings and weekly autonomy meetings

Associated Students Inc. at Cal State LA

Undergraduate Academic Senator

August 2024 - Present

• Shared my opinion on policies during the Academic Senate, Shared Governance Council, Educational Policy Committee, and Student Policy Committee meetings, where we discussed and voted on them
• Listened to student ideas and concerns to raise them at the senate meetings

University-Student Union at Cal State LA

Student Director, Board of Directors

May 2024 - Present

• Collaborated with the board to make decisions for the Union
• Served as a member of the Fiscal and Personnel committees
• Experienced the ACUI Region I Conference in San Diego

ML Research with Dr. Pourhomayoun at Cal State LA

Researcher

September 2023 - Present

• Learned how to train YOLO on a custom dataset
• Learned how to deploy models onto a NVIDIA Jetson
• Learned about GANs and DCGANs

Kids4Kids Global

Founder & Youth President

June 2022 - Present

• Mentored, educated, and supported youth with disadvantages around the globe
• Developed and designed the website
• Organized Interesting Interviews, Guest Speakers, and Workshops
• Reached out to volunteers, staff, educators, and students

Headstarter AI

Software Engineer Fellow

July 2024 - September 2024

• Built 6 AI apps and APIs using Next.js, OpenAI API, Pinecone, AWS, and StripeAPI
• Developed projects from design to deployment leading 3 engineering fellows using MVC design patterns

Association for Computing Machinery at Cal State LA

Secretary

May 2024 - September 2024

• Updated the Constitution together with other Executive Board members
• Kept the minutes of all Chapter and Executive Board meetings
• Was in charge of communication and delivering weekly newsletters to all the members and researching internship opportunities for the newsletter

• Participated in 2 Advanced Projects:
  • Space Invaders game using PyGame (Spring 2024)
  • Platformer game using Unity and C# (Fall 2023)
• Winner of Spring 2024 ACM's Master Coder
• Winner of Fall 2023 ACM's Biggest Fan

Buildspace

Builder in Nights & Weekends S5 Cohort

June 2024 - August 2024

• Completed an intensive 6-week project-based program for builders and creators to eventually launch a functional project by the end of the program
• Led the MarioMind Team, where we worked on a project to make AI play the original Super Mario Bros. game using PPO for reinforcement learning, a library for the training environment, and a computer vision model to interpret the screen

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers at Cal State LA

Central Processing Lead of Micromouse Team

September 2023 - May 2024

• Led the Micromouse Central Processing team, which deals with the algorithm and control
• Created a prototype flood fill algorithm in a simulation for the mouse to run in a maze and conducted a workshop on it
• Learned how to solder (certified)

XR Research with Dr. Krum at Cal State LA

Researcher

September 2023 - May 2024

• Completed the Unity XR Pathway
• Created a simple VR grappling gun game using Unity and C#

August 2023 - May 2027

California State University, Los Angeles (ECST)

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Major & Psychology Minor

Sophomore

• Dean's List Fall 2024
• Dean's List Spring 2024
• Dean's List Fall 2023

September 2024 - June 2025

The Knowledge Society (TKS)

Innovator

• TKS is a 10-month global innovation program for selected teens.
• Worked with Ved, Aaron, Aayan, and Ritika on an IKEA Challenge project titled 'Engaging Gen-Z: Collectible Pins as the Ultimate Tradeable Art for Social Media Engagement' (December).
• Worked with Ved Sunkari, Aaron Newman, Aryeh Thomas Mathews, Serra Aksoy, and Ashwin S on 'Get em Dogs on Mars' for the Focus Hackathon (November).
• Worked on a project called 'Rescue Swarm' during the TKS Hackathon with my team (October).

April 2024 - June 2024

Harvard University

CS50x

• Verified Certificate

June 2024

MathWorks

Foundational MATLAB · MATLAB Fundamentals · MATLAB Onramp

• Badge
• Verified Certificate

September 2023 - April 2024

The Coding School

Quantum Computing

• Full Scholarship (full year)

July 2023 - August 2023

Best Delegate Model United Nations

Virtual Model United Nations Institute - Summer 2023

• Ambassador MUN Camp (August 7 - 11) · Military Use of Artificial Intelligence
• Junior Crisis MUN Camp (July 31 - August 4) · Space Security
• Junior Diplomat MUN Camp (July 17 - 21) · Climate Change

July 2018 - August 2023

Olympiads School

• Skills: Python · Java · C++ · Number Theory · Combinatorics · Problem Solving
• Subjects: Computer Science · Math · Physics · Chemistry · Biology · English · Debate · Public Speaking · French

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