Kairan Quazi is a Bangladeshi-American genius best known for being the youngest software engineer at Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Wiki/Biography
Kairan Quazi was born on Tuesday, January 27, 2009, in San Francisco Bay Area, United States (14 years old as of 2023). His zodiac sign is Aquarius. Kellan began his elementary education at Helios School in Sunnyvale. Kairan started his Python programming journey at the age of 7 at YoungWonks Coding Academy. He also attended masterclasses focused on open source machine learning. Kairan entered Las Positas College at the age of 9, becoming the youngest enrollee in the college’s history. At the age of 11, he set another record by becoming the youngest graduate with an associate of science degree in mathematics. He then continued his education at Santa Clara University, majoring in computer engineering. Kairan received his bachelor’s degree in 2022 and studied for his master’s degree at the same university in 2023.
Photos of Kellan Quazi as a child
appearance
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
His father is Mustahid Quazi, a former chemical engineer, and his mother is Julia Quazi. Kellan does not have any siblings.
Kairan Quazi’s photo with his parents
Profession
In 2019, Kairan Quazi began working as a research collaborator in the Anticipatory Computing Lab at Intel Labs in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA. Here he works on the next generation development of the Stephen Hawking ACAT.
Kairan Quazi Click Intel Office
He has also written as a guest writer for MIT Technology Review (2019) and the Frederick Douglass Foundation (2020). In 2020, he also delivered a keynote address at the Shift AI conference on “Mission Conflict: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Social Justice Initiatives.”
Kairan speaks at SHIFT AI conference
Kairan Quazi’s post about being a guest speaker
From 2019 to 2020, he served as an assistant and STEM tutor at Las Positas College. Additionally, he held a summer internship at a venture-backed network intelligence startup. He then served as an artificial intelligence intern at Blackbird AI in 2022. In June 2023, he received a job offer as a software engineer at SpaceX’s Starlink division in Redmond, Washington.
Santa Clara University post about Kairan Quazi joining Space X
Achievements and Recognition
- Davidson College Young Scholars (eligibility requires a test IQ of 99.9% or above)
- Alpha Gamma Sigma (University of California System Honor Society)
- Johns Hopkins Center for Young Talent (eligibility requires an SAT math or verbal score of at least 700 by age 13)
Favorites
- Dessert: Max and Mina’s Ice Cream
- Books: George Orwell’s 1984, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Astrophysics in a Hurry, and the Game of Thrones series
- News channels: Huffington Post, NPR and MSNBC
- TV presenter: Rachel Maddow
- Politician: Kamala Harris
Facts/Trivia
- The name “Hyland” originates from Japanese mythology and represents a mythical unicorn-like creature that embodies the good nature of human beings. San Francisco artist Jasper Figueroa created a mural depicting Kairan in his warrior form at age 1.5.
Kairan Quazi’s childhood warrior mural
- Kellan started speaking in complete sentences at the age of two.
- As the youngest student at the university, Kieran admits he has to email professors before school starts so they don’t get confused.
- In third grade (when Quazi was 9 years old), doctors evaluated his IQ and determined that his IQ was above the 99.9th percentile. Notably, his emotional intelligence (EQ) is also reportedly “astonishingly high.” The results confirmed that Kwazi was “extremely gifted” and his parents changed their tune and enrolled him in a special primary school.
- Kellan’s goal is to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for further research.
- Quazi has shown an unusual talent for what experts call “asynchronous learning.” This enables him to absorb academic subjects quickly and even understand concepts outside the usual sequence. For example, he mastered the concepts of linear algebra before even taking a formal algebra course.
- In 2019, he spoke at the Agami Khan Academy fundraiser and Myers concert in San Jose, California, to support education in Bangladesh.
Kairan Quazi during Khan Academy fundraising
- Although Kellan is very smart, he admits that he has problems learning languages and spelling. He is trying to learn Bengali from his parents and taking classes in Mandarin.
- He is also proficient in coding languages. He knows at least 19 programming languages and interfaces.
- The prodigy also knows how to play the piano, but he says he’s not yet an expert and finds it difficult at times. “My piano teacher hinted that maybe piano wasn’t my thing,” Kwazi said.
Kairan Quazi plays piano
- In addition to his incredible achievements, Kellan admits that he was not a straight-A student and grades were not the main focus in his family. He lives like a normal kid and is often grounded for his behavior.
- He once spent just an hour preparing for a chemistry exam. While his parents were worried about him failing the test, he got 101%.
- Kairan feels that his biggest challenge is staying focused for long periods of time, as he finds himself randomly getting lost in his own thoughts. He continued, “At any given time, I could be thinking about anything, from the famine in Yemen to how to stop piano practice that day.”
- Kellan is a Davidson College Young Scholar and a member of the Johns Hopkins University Distinguished Fellows.
- Kairan has been featured on Good Morning America, The Huffington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and numerous local and international media outlets.
Photos of Kairan Quazi on “Good Morning America”
- In June 2020, he participated in local marches against racism and to build peace in his hometown.
Kellan Kwazi during protests
- He also has his own YouTube channel where he likes to vlog. His channel is called “Kairan Quazi – Let’s Go Molecules!” He talks about topics including news, gaming, pop culture, and more that encourage kids and young adults to easily understand difficult concepts.
Kairan Quazi’s YouTube channel
- He is obsessed with reading and enjoys reading books of all genres, from fantasy novels like Game of Thrones to non-fiction. In his words, “A good book makes me forget to finish my meal and get ready for school on time. This makes my parents yell. Wait, isn’t reading a good thing?” he said.
Kairan Quazi poses with the GOT book series
- Science books weren’t the only ones he liked to read. He also enjoys reading children’s books, such as Captain Underpants, the Harry Potter series (he read all eight during the eight weeks of summer break after first grade), the Percy Jackson series, and the Harry Potter series. Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
- Kellan admits that he wasn’t always very bright in school, which got him into trouble. He explained,
“I corrected my teacher’s knowledge on the constitutional requirements to be president of the United States… In kindergarten, I learned that telling my friend Bashar Assad to use chemical weapons against his own people would make kids cry on the playground,” Quazi wrote. “My parents got a call that day from a disgruntled principal. I told my third-grade science teacher that her lack of depth in her knowledge of gravity earned me a spot on her naughty list for the rest of the year. .”
- Kellan showed special interest in political and scientific topics. From the age of three, he has keenly followed every presidential debate, starting with Barack Obama’s re-election campaign.
- At SCU, he is running for the ASG Senate position in the April 2023 election.
Kairan Quazi’s Instagram post about his involvement in the SCU election
- His hobbies include Kajukenbo martial arts, playing tennis, coding, video games (including Pokémon and Minecraft), watching Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert, traveling, and making friends.
- He also earned his student black belt in 2018 in Kajukenbo; a mixed martial art from Hawaii. He started learning the sport when he was 3.5 years old.
Kairan Quazi, 3.5 years old
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