Aditya Surendran

Student, Innovator & Explorer

🧬 YSTE 2026 🇮🇪 Athlone, Ireland 🔬 CREST Gold

About

I’m a student based in Athlone, Ireland, passionate about mathematics, automation, and technology. I placed 5th overall out of 15,000+ students in the IAMTA Maggie Gough Competition, with a score of 95% compared to my age group’s average of just 4.75%. I also won the LWETB Junior Maths Competition and the IAMTA Regional Junior Problem Solving Competition and was a runner-up in the ETB All-Ireland Junior Maths Competition.

Beyond academics, I love exploring how systems work — whether that’s version control with GitHub, automating small tasks, or experimenting with web design. I enjoy learning by doing, and I’m always curious about what I can build or improve next.

Research & Development

For SciFest @ TUS Athlone 2026

Adaptive BFT Consensus Framework

Designing and implementing an adaptive Byzantine Fault-Tolerant system that uses deterministic intelligence to maintain efficiency under adversarial stress while preserving absolute safety.

The Advance

Introduces an "Adaptive Gearbox" that switches between optimistic fast paths and conservative slow paths based on network signatures.

Metaconsensus

Uses a Byzantine-robust median of gossiped local performance data to synchronize system-wide adaptive parameters.

Efficiency

Validated recovery from adversarial jitter in 1.2s, stabilizing at 3.22 messages per commit in stable mode.

Stripe YSTE 2026 • CREST Gold

Smarter Cancer Staging

Using Machine Learning to find cancer stages via gene expression data, accelerating molecular triage before imaging is complete.

Impact

Compressing stage-related signals into small, practical gene panels for faster clinical review.

Research

Built ML models using publicly available RNA-seq datasets (TCGA) under strict clinical controls.

Edge Tech

Demonstrated real-time inference on low-power embedded hardware for clinical use.

Honors & Awards

2026 • IAMTA

Regional Junior Problem Solving 🥇 1st

Won the regional competition hosted by Moate CS. Qualified as a national finalist for the All-Ireland finals in April 2026.

2026 • BSA

CREST Gold Award

Highest level of the CREST Awards for the research project "Smarter Cancer Staging," using ML for molecular triage.

2026 • Stripe

YSTE 2026 Delegate

Selected to represent Athlone Community College at the BT Young Scientist Exhibition at the RDS.

2025 • LWETB

Junior Maths Competition 🥇 1st

First place out of all schools in Longford and Westmeath. Qualified for the All-Ireland Finals.

2025 • ETBI

All-Ireland Junior Maths 🥈 2nd

National runners-up out of all ETB schools in Ireland. Tied for first place for the majority of the competition.

2024 • ETBI

All-Ireland Junior Maths Finalist

Placed 4th out of all ETB schools in Ireland during the national finals in Mullingar.

2024 • LWETB

Regional Junior Maths 🥉 3rd

Third place in the Longford-Westmeath region, leading to All-Ireland qualification.

2024 • IMTA

Maggie Gough 🏅 5th Overall

Placed 5th out of 15,000+ students. Scored 95% (age group average was 4.75%). 2nd among all 2nd-year students.

Education

2023 — 2029

Athlone Community College

Student Council Officer • Junior Executive Officer • Stripe YSTE 2026 Delegate

2015—2017 & 2018—2023

St. Mary’s National School (Athlone, Ireland)

Primary Education • Class of 2023

2017 — 2018

Delhi Public School Bangalore East (India)

1st Class (CIE)