Machine Learning Engineer
Working on cyber intelligence (w/ ADC)
Vedant Saran
Vedant Saran is a computer science and philosophy student at the University of Maryland, College Park. He grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, graduated from Lexington High School in 2026, and spends most of his time around algorithms, language, and practical machine learning.
Vedant is a 2x USACO Platinum achiever, a John Locke Institute essay prize winner, and a Wikipedia administrator with more than 20,000 edits. He likes to build tools for editors and researchers, tutor competitive programming students, and work on language + software projects :)
Experience
ARFlow Research Assistant
Worked with Professor Tian Guo to extend the ARFlow open-source AR and video streaming platform with RGB support, FFmpeg compression, and testing around video processing performance.
Wikipedia Administrator
Contributed 20,000+ edits across articles with 100 million+ page views, and built editor tools that make vandalism response and categorization faster.
Cofounder & Lead Quant Developer
Cofounded a trading and quantitative analysis group focused on financial markets and algorithmic strategies; generated $25k+ in profit. lexqrg.vercel.app
USACO Tutor
Tutor 20+ students in competitive programming, with lessons covering Bronze through Platinum problem solving. program details
Awards
USA Computing Olympiad (USACO) - Platinum Division
Reached Platinum among approximately 15,000 competitors; only 17 advanced in the December 2024-25 Gold contest. Placed 65th worldwide in 2025-26. results
John Locke Institute Essay Competition (Theology) - 3rd Place
3rd place worldwide in the Theology category among 63,328 entrants for an essay on religious rules, the self, and the scale of the universe. certificate · prize winners
Presidential 1776 Award - Massachusetts Representative
Semifinalist and one of 4 Massachusetts representatives in a national America 250 civics competition. details
MIT Informatics Tournament
35th worldwide out of 500+ teams and 5th in division.
North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO)
Invitational qualifier, among the top 100 linguistics competitors in the United States and Canada.
Projects
Chess Vision & Auto-Notation
Real-time computer vision system that watches a live chess game and transcribes moves into PGN notation, using a custom YOLO model, OpenCV board correction, and game-state logic for captures, castling, and promotions.
Wikipedia Editor Tools
JavaScript and C++ tools for Wikipedia editors, including antivandalism workflows used by hundreds of users and categorization tooling for large article sets.
TerpTrack
AI-powered UMD course scheduling app that combines degree requirements, grade distributions, prerequisites, student preferences, and an LLM to generate semester plans.
Civic Engagement Course Development
Helped design a weeklong course on voting rights and democratic processes for high school students.