Vision and research direction
Tanush leads Gastro Compass as founder, shaping the clinical question, overall product direction, and the standard of credibility the project is built around.
Team
Meet the team behind Gastro Compass
Gastro Compass is founder-led by Tanush Nimmalapudi and supported by an early technical team focused on building a more credible, clinically grounded digestive health product.
Founder-led
Research direction, product vision, and technical build
Tanush leads the project vision, research direction, and overall strategy, while Aarsh supports the technical build and early product development. Together, the team combines research credibility, student leadership, and practical technical execution.
Background
A founder-led team shaped by research, leadership, and technical depth
Academic and clinical grounding
As a student at FCS Innovation Academy and a researcher at Yale University, Tanush brings research exposure and stronger clinical framing into the project.
Programming, systems, and execution
Aarsh supports the technical side of Gastro Compass with a foundation in programming, problem-solving, and collaborative STEM work focused on building practical systems well.
Student leadership and STEM involvement
The team also draws on leadership through ElderTech, CyberPatriot, Mu Alpha Theta, Beta Club, and other STEM activities that strengthen execution, ownership, and collaboration.
Team
The founding team around Gastro Compass
Founder
Tanush Nimmalapudi
Tanush leads the vision, research direction, and overall product strategy behind Gastro Compass. As the founder, he is shaping the project around a tighter clinical question and a more credible path toward AI-supported digestive health tools.
As a junior at FCS Innovation Academy STEM High School and a researcher at Yale University, he is building Gastro Compass with a strong focus on clinical fit, research credibility, and practical product design. His role is centered on defining the problem, guiding the technical direction, and making sure the project is taken seriously by both patients and professionals.
Founding team member
Aarsh Patel
Aarsh Patel is a junior at FCS Innovation Academy with a focus on IT and an early technical role on Gastro Compass. His background supports the project’s product development and technical execution.
He brings leadership experience as Vice President of ElderTech and as a team leader in CyberPatriot, along with involvement in Mu Alpha Theta, Beta Club, and other competitive STEM activities. That background gives him a strong analytical and technical foundation, helping translate the project vision into a more buildable and technically grounded product.
Why this project
Why Gastro Compass matters to him
Gastro Compass is not meant to be another generic health app. The project is being built around a sharper problem: how to use AI to help surface earlier signs that could matter in digestive disease, especially when patient stories and clinical data live in separate places.
That is why the platform is organized around two sides at once: the patient view for symptom history and the professional view for colonoscopy and endoscopy uploads. The founder vision is to make those two streams work together instead of forcing patients and clinicians to bridge the gap manually.
Student
FCS Innovation Academy
Building from a STEM-focused academic base with room for independent research and technical product development.
Research
Yale University
Bringing research exposure into a product direction centered on AI for earlier clinical clarity.
Direction
Patient + professional workflow
Designing a platform that supports both symptom uploads and professional imaging review.