Kairan Qazi is a Bangladeshi-American genius who is best known as the youngest software engineer in Elon Musk’s organization, SpaceX.
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Wiki/Biography
Kairan Qazi was born on Tuesday, 27 January 2009 (age 14 years; as in 2023) in San Francisco Bay Area, USA. His zodiac sign is Aquarius. Karen began her primary education at Helios in Sunnyvale. At the age of 7, Caran started his journey in Python programming at YoungWonx Coding Academy. He also participated in a master class focused on open-source machine learning. Caron entered Las Positas College at the age of 9, making her the youngest ever enrolled in the college’s history. He set another record as the youngest graduate by receiving an Associate of Science degree in Mathematics at the age of 11. He then went to Santa Clara University for further studies in computer engineering. Kairan earned a bachelor’s degree in 2022 and a master’s degree from the same university, which he completed in 2023.
Childhood picture of Kairan Qazi
Physical Appearance
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Black
Family
parents and siblings
His father’s name is Mustahid Qazi, who was a former chemical engineer and his mother is Julia Qazi. Kairan does not have any siblings.
A picture of Kairan Qazi with his father and mother
livelihood
In 2019, Kairan Qazi started as a research associate with Intel Labs’ Anticipatory Computing Lab in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States. Here he was working on the development of the next generation of the Stephen Hawking ACAT.
Kairan Qazi clicked on the Intel office
He also wrote as a guest author for MIT Technology Review (2019) and the Frederick Douglass Foundation (2020). In 2020, he was also the keynote speaker at the Shift AI conference, where he spoke on the topic “Mission Collision: The Impact of AI on Social Justice Initiatives”.
A post by Karen on being a speaker at the SHIFT AI conference
A post by Kairan Qazi on being a guest speaker
For one year from 2019-2020, he was a staff assistant and STEM tutor at Las Positas College. Additionally, he did a summer internship at a VC-backed cyber intelligence start-up. Later, he interned at Blackbird AI as an AI intern in 2022. In June 2023, he received an offer to work at Space X’s Starlink division in Redmond, Washington, as a software engineer.
Santa Clara University post about Kairan Qazi joining SpaceX
Achievements and Recognitions
- Davidson Institute Young Scholar (requires a tested IQ of 99.9 percentile or above to qualify)
- Alpha Gamma Sigma (Honor Society of the California College System)
- Johns Hopkins Center for Gifted Youth (requires a minimum score of 700 on the SAT math or verbal prior to age 13 to qualify)
Favorite
- Dessert: Max and Mina’s Ice Cream
- Books: George Orwell’s “1984,” Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry” and The Game of Thrones series
- News Channels: HuffPost, NPR and MSNBC
- TV presenter: Rachel Maddow
- Politician: Kamala Harris
facts/common sense
- The name “Karon” has its roots in Japanese mythology, where it represents a unicorn-like mythical creature that personifies the essence of human kindness. A mural depicting a samurai rendition of Kairan, aged 1.5, was created by San Francisco-based artist Jasper Figueroa.
Kairan Kaji’s samurai graffiti as a child
- Caran started forming complete sentences when he was only two years old.
- Being the youngest in his university, Kiran admits that he has to send emails to his professors before the first day so that they are not confused.
- In the third grade (when Qazi was 9 years old), doctors evaluated his IQ, determining that it was above the 99.9th percentile. Remarkably, his emotional intelligence (EQ) was also reported to be “surprisingly high”. Following these results, which confirmed Qazi to be “profoundly gifted”, his parents changed their attitude and enrolled him in a special primary school.
- Caran aims to enroll in MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for his further research.
- Qazi exhibits an unusual ability that experts call “asynchronous learning”. This allows them to rapidly assimilate academic subjects and even to understand concepts out of their normal sequence. For example, he understood the concepts of linear algebra before he was officially enrolled in a formal algebra class.
- In 2019, he gave a speech at the Agami-Khan Academy Fundraiser and Miles Concert in San Jose (CA) to support education in Bangladesh.
Kairan Qazi during a fundraiser for Khan Academy
- Even though Kairan is very intelligent, he admits that he has problems learning languages and spellings. He is trying to learn Bengali from his parents and is taking classes in Mandarin.
- He is also proficient in coding languages. He knows at least 19 programming languages and interfaces.
- The gifted kid also knows how to play the piano but says he is not an expert yet and sometimes finds it difficult. Qazi said, “My piano teacher said that perhaps piano is not my liking.”
Kairan Qazi playing the piano
- In addition to her incredible achievements, Karen admits that she is not a straight A student and that grades are not a main focus in her home either. He lives his life like any normal kid and often gets into trouble due to his behaviour.
- Once he spent only an hour studying for a chemistry exam. While his parents were worried that he would fail the exam, he got 101 per cent marks on the same.
- Caran finds that his biggest challenge is staying focused for long periods of time as he finds himself getting lost in a whirlwind of thoughts. He adds, “At any given moment, I can think of anything from the famine in Yemen to skipping out on piano practice that day.”
- Karen is a Davidson Institute Young Scholar and a member of the Johns Hopkins Study of Exceptional Talent.
- Caran has been featured on Good Morning America, the Huffington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and numerous local and international media outlets.
A photo of Kairan Qazi on Good Morning America
- In June 2020, he participated in a local march against racism and to establish peace in his native region.
Kairan Qazi during a protest
- He also has his own youtube channel where he loves to vlog. His channel name is “Kairan Qazi – Let’s Go Molecular!” Where he talks about topics such as news, gaming, pop culture, etc. that can encourage kids and young adults to understand difficult concepts with ease.
Kairan Qazi’s youtube channel
- He is an avid reader and likes to read various genres from fantasy like Game of Thrones to non-fiction. In her words, “A good book makes me forget to finish my meal and be ready for school on time. This makes my parents cry a lot. Wait, isn’t reading considered a good thing?” They said.
Kairan Qazi pictured with GOT book series
- Science books are not the only books he likes to read. He also enjoys reading children’s books such as Captain Underpants, the Harry Potter series (he read all eight books in an eight-week summer vacation after first grade), The Percy Jackson series, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
- Karen admitted that she was not always the smartest in school as it got her into trouble. He explains
Qazi wrote, “I corrected my teacher’s knowledge of the constitutional requirements to become US president… In kindergarten, I learned that telling my friends that Bashar al-Assad was using chemical weapons against his own people would make children cry on the playground.” “The other day my parents got a call from an unhappy principal. And telling my third grade science teacher that his knowledge of gravity was lacking in depth earned me a spot on his naughty list for the rest of the year.
- Karen takes a special interest in the subjects of politics and science. He has keenly followed every presidential debate since the young age of three, from Barack Obama’s re-election campaign.
- At SCU, he ran for the position of ASG Senate during the elections in April 2023.
Kairan Qazi’s Instagram post about his participation in the SCU elections
- His hobbies include kajukembo martial arts, playing tennis, coding, video games including Pokémon and Minecraft, watching Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert, traveling and making friends.
- He also earned a Kazukembo Student Black Belt in 2018; A hybrid martial art from Hawaii. He started learning this game when he was just 3.5 years old.
Kairan Qazi at the age of 3.5
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