umer qureshiinquiry & impact,for everyone
engineer · researcher · pembroke pines, floridawho is umer?
a high school student from Pembroke Pines, Florida, building where electrical engineering meets neuroscience
Umer Qureshi builds robots, apps and study tools, with free access as the default. His work runs from an autonomous robot that clears invasive trees, to an iOS app that helps visually impaired people find their way, to a free education tool that has reached more than 100,000 people.
Along the way: MIT’s MITES Semester, a Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam, a global OTIS win and two VEX Robotics Worlds awards.
- 100,000+
- people reached by Korah
- $35,000
- OTIS global win for Iris AI
- 900+
- practice tests on Akoizo
- < 3%
- acceptance rate, MITES Semester
freshly made
projects built to be used, not shelved
good tools should reach everyone, whatever their circumstances.
Umer builds for the people who are usually left out: students who can’t pay for prep, people who can’t see the path in front of them, classmates who just need somewhere to study.