Location Greater New York Area, United States, North America Regions East Coast Gender Male
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Nikin Tharan is the Co-founder at Stealth. He attended Northeastern University.
Nikin believes in using technology and leveraging existing resources to challenge the status-quo and impact lives.
Nikin discovered he had a talent for electronics and started working at a lab affiliated with the Border Security Force in India at 9 y/o. He
successfully piloted projects on agricultural management, anti-train collision, smart homes and got a honorable citation from the President of India.
In his role as the President of WISE, Nikin improved STEM education at low-income schools in India through an innovative experiential education curriculum. Over the summer of 2015, he conducted an impact assessment of the non-profit with a research grant from Northeastern which helped WISE go national.
Nikin got a full scholarship to attend Northeastern at 16 y/o. After the Harvard-MIT hackathon on iCorruption, he worked at Harvard Law School with Prof. Lawrence Lessig to research ways to reduce bias in academia. At HackingEDU 2015, he co-founded ITAP, a social enterprise that creates IT apprenticeship program for disadvantaged youth in the Bay Area. ITAP got selected for the Clinton Global Initiative University 2016, again in 2017, shortlisted for their Innovation Fund and secured a grant from Northeastern.
For the latter half of 2016, Nikin was a Visiting Innovation Fellow at John Hancock's Lab of Forward Thinking. In early 2017, he helped set up the world's first open innovation platform with IoT at Northeastern. At MIT HackingMedicine, his team won two prizes and he co-founded Medsix, a medtech startup focused on post operative recovery management.
After graduating, Nikin worked on commercializing the world's first nanomaterial-based ion detector at Guardion and is an alumnae of the Techstars-US Air Force accelerator. He raised $250k for Medsix and now works there full-time. He enjoys reading, listening to podcasts, networking and being a mentor to millennial entrepreneurs.
