Become apublished researcher.
Brown. Johns Hopkins. Stanford. Fellows walk into admissions with a first-author paper an officer can look up and verify. 10 weeks, 1:1 with a PhD mentor, no prior experience.
Publications by YRI Fellows
Ruthwik D.METHI: An Ensemble-Based Machine-Learned Exoplanetary Habitability Index
Nidhi K.Skin Microbiome Signatures for Non-Invasive Detection of Autoimmune Disorders
Aditya S.Best Oral Presentation Award at IEEE AAIML 2026, Tokyo
Raeyaan M.Real-Time Control of a Low-Cost Robotic Arm Using EMG Signal Classification
Ishaan M.Waste-to-Resource Conversion
Sai T.Automated Hybrid In-Situ River RemediationWinning science fairs is not luck.
It is a blueprint.
Getting a high schooler into a peer-reviewed venue and onto a winners list is a specific job with specific steps, and almost every program that promises it assigns one mentor and hopes. We follow the same blueprint every time, and four teams touch every YRI paper before it is submitted.
From STEM to the humanities, there is no research question we have to turn away for lack of a supervisor. Matching happens after we know what your child wants to work on, so the person overseeing the project has published in that area themselves.
Mentorship continues at no additional cost until the paper is published. The program ends at week 10. The support does not.
SEE THE FULL PROCESS
Published. On stage. Admitted.
Fellows and parents, on camera
“I went from research ideas without publications to a first-author paper in Springer, in two months.”
Every Fellow starts at zero
“I joined YRI as a 9th grader with zero research experience. Within months, my eye-tracking Alzheimer's detection research was accepted at IEEE EMBC.”
Suriya D.“I went from no plan to a week-by-week roadmap. We scoped a real study, drafted my first manuscript, and got published in IEEE.”
Ishaan M.“I wanted to prove you could do real ML research without a GPU cluster. My mentor helped me scope it to something achievable. Presenting at ISEF felt like validation that the idea had legs.”
Jayant K.“My research won 1st place at my science fair and I qualified for state. I never imagined achieving that in 9th grade.”
Avyay G.“My mentor helped me develop a novel ECG analysis algorithm that got published in IEEE. The structured research process transformed my understanding of what is possible.”
Devansh G.“The best part of YRI was the positive attitude of the mentors as they guided me to finish my research paper. The program creates a space where you can learn and succeed.”
Neil V.“I designed a novel drug candidate for Tardive Dyskinesia using AI-augmented molecular modeling. YRI's mentorship helped me publish computational pharmacology research.”
Aaryan S.“I built an AI-powered anomaly detection system for cloud computing. YRI's structured approach helped me get my paper accepted to the IEEE Advanced AI and ML Conference.”
Aditya S.“I applied astronomy techniques like pulsar timing to detect Alzheimer’s from brain scans, achieving 88.9% accuracy. YRI helped me bridge astrobiology and neuroscience.”
Ayaan R.“Selected as 1 of 14 global finalists from 8,000+ participants, and secured 3rd place with a cash award.”
Aarush M.“Publishing medical research as a high schooler seemed impossible. YRI helped me co-author a computational drug discovery study.”
Lyudong Y.“YRI helped me apply machine learning to public health research. My work was accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Public Health.”
Diya A.“I analyzed 132 immune escape mutations in Omicron variants using genomic surveillance. YRI helped me get published at IEEE RCSM 2025.”
Sai P.“I wanted to create something that not only detects traffic, but also uses the information to predict future problems.”
Aarav B.How the 10 weeks work
“My son published research in IEEE and presented at an international medical conference, only in 9th grade. As a parent, seeing your child accomplish something this meaningful is incredible.”
Regeneron ISEF finalist. Published in JAMA Cardiology. Conrad Challenge Top 5 worldwide. Author of ten peer-reviewed papers, presented at IEEE, ACM, and Stanford.
Former President and Chief Scientist of SanRx Pharmaceuticals, and named inventor on US Patent 12,569,492. He sets the research standard at YRI and the bar every mentor on the network is held to.
No. Most Fellows start with zero experience. The program is designed to take curious students and hold their work to professional standards through structured mentorship.
Admission is selective.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and every applicant gets a decision within 48 hours. Seats in each cohort are limited by the number of mentors we can match.
Less than a month with a private college counselor, and the only line on the application a reader can look up and verify. Mentorship continues at no cost until the paper is published.