# Aditya Katre

> Del Norte High School senior in San Diego. I build AI systems, defend Linux servers, play tenor sax, and backpack.

Aditya Katre is a senior at Del Norte High School in San Diego, CA (Class of 2027). He plans to study computer science and artificial intelligence.

## Key facts
- Research: author, with Prof. Hajar Homayouni, on a paper on asymmetric cross-modal attention for visual question answering, accepted to the IEEE BigData2026 Conference. Invited to present to an international audience. Researcher at San Diego State University's Data Science Lab since January 2026.
- Invention: DentaScan, an AI intraoral scanner for tooth decay and gum disease. Sole inventor; USPTO provisional patent filed August 2026.
- Publication: "Classifying Marine Mammals using Convolutional Neural Networks" (with Arpit Jasapara), National High School Journal of Science, September 2025.
- Cybersecurity: captain of CyberAegis. CyberPatriot XV National Finalist (March 2023, Middle School Division: 2nd overall, 1st in Cisco Networking Challenge). Top 30 of ~6,000 teams five years in a row. SoCal Cyber Cup first place (April 2024).
- Software: Scrapp, a waste-disposal guidance app built with Indraneel Adem; 4th place, Congressional App Challenge CA-50 (2025); featured in The San Diego Union-Tribune (March 2026).
- Scouting: Eagle Scout (August 2026), BSA Troop 685; Assistant Senior Patrol Leader. Eagle project: park reservation and newsletter app for the Del Sur Community HOA.
- Tennis: UTR 6.2, doubles WTN 26.5; Del Norte High School team; coached fifth graders at On The Rise Tennis Academy.
- Music: tenor saxophone in Del Norte Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band B, and Concert Band; 7+ festival solos.
- Also: USACO Silver (2025), co-founder of the Del Norte AI Club, AP Scholar with Distinction.

## Pages
- [Trailhead (Home)](https://adikatre.github.io/): Start here.
- [The Lab Bench (Research)](https://adikatre.github.io/lab-bench/): Vision-language attention at SDSU, an AI dental scanner I invented, and a published whale-ID paper.
- [Root Access (Cybersecurity & CS)](https://adikatre.github.io/root-access/): Six years captaining CyberAegis, a national finals trip, and USACO Silver.
- [Shipped (Things I built)](https://adikatre.github.io/shipped/): Scrapp, a Union-Tribune-featured app, plus school tools used by 100+ students a day.
- [Leave It Better (Community service)](https://adikatre.github.io/leave-it-better/): Eagle Scout, Troop 685, and an app my HOA still uses to book its parks.
- [Baseline (Tennis)](https://adikatre.github.io/baseline/): UTR 6.2, six years of tournaments, and weekly sessions coaching fifth graders.
- [Tenor Notes (Music)](https://adikatre.github.io/tenor-notes/): Tenor sax in Wind Ensemble and Jazz Band, from garage practice to festival solos.
- [Off the Grid (Outdoors & photography)](https://adikatre.github.io/off-the-grid/): Backpacking, trail cleanups, and the photos I take along the way.
- [Switchbacks (Timeline)](https://adikatre.github.io/switchbacks/): The whole climb, year by year.
- [About & contact](https://adikatre.github.io/about/)

## Timeline
- Grade 6: Picked up the tenor saxophone.
- Grade 7: Joined Boy Scouts of America Troop 685 and started playing competitive tennis.
- Grade 7: Joined CyberAegis and started teaching myself networking and Linux to earn a spot on the top team.
- Mar 2023: CyberPatriot XV National Finals, Middle School Division: 2nd place overall and 1st in the Cisco Networking Challenge.
- Mar 2024: Started independent research on classifying whales and dolphins with CNNs.
- Apr 2024: Won first place at the SoCal Cyber Cup.
- Summer 2024: UC Irvine Game Science program: wrote and built a horror game in Unity and pitched it to investors.
- Oct 2024: Co-founded the Del Norte AI Club.
- 2025: Reached USACO Silver Division.
- Sep 2025: Marine mammal paper published in the National High School Journal of Science.
- 2025: Scrapp placed 4th in the Congressional App Challenge (CA-50).
- Jan 2026: Joined Prof. Hajar Homayouni's Data Science Lab at San Diego State University.
- Mar 2026: Scrapp featured in The San Diego Union-Tribune.
- Aug 2026: Earned Eagle Scout. Filed a provisional patent as sole inventor of DentaScan.
- Fall 2026: Author, with Prof. Homayouni, on a paper accepted to IEEE BigData 2026; invited to present. Senior year at Del Norte.

## Press
- The San Diego Union-Tribune, "Five Del Norte High students win honors in Congressional App Challenge" (2026-03-25): https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/03/25/five-del-norte-high-students-win-honors-in-congressional-app-challenge/

## Contact
- Email: adityad39c@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adikatre/
- GitHub: https://github.com/adikatre