Apex, North Carolina
2026
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35°43′N 78°51′W
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ABHAV
KUNCHAKURI

UNC Kenan-Flagler · building tech for smarter decisions

C/O Abhav K. · 2026.11
// Listening Nothing Was
the Same — Drake
// Reading Almanack of
Naval Ravikant
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About

01 / 07

originI'm Abhav. I build tools that give people a clear answer instead of more options. That's the problem I keep running into — decisions that should be a number aren't, outcomes that could be predictable aren't. So I make things that close that gap.

fieldGRIME started at a hackathon weekend. The problem that stuck was placement: where do you actually put a trash trap in a river? We scored 108,772 cities across 28 parameters so the answer could be a number, not a guess.

methodInflamend started when a close friend told me what it was really like to have Crohn's — not the medical version, the daily one. Not knowing what to eat, when a flare was coming, what was safe. I built it because I couldn't stand that he didn't have an answer.

// Location Apex, North Carolina
// Studying UNC Chapel Hill, Class of 2030. B.S. Business Administration, B.A. Data Science, minor in Philosophy, Politics & Economics
// Interests Systems, Music, Mathematics
// Currently Building GRIME. Reading Naval. Listening to Drake.

Work

02 / 07

Selected projects with enough context to show the shape of the work: what it does, what I owned, and why it matters.

GRIME
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Founder / BuilderGeospatial SystemsComputer Vision
Garbage River Interception & Modeling Engine is a decision-support system that scores trash trap deployment sites across 28 parameters in 108,772 cities and 240 countries. Autonomous solar-powered units use YOLOv8 computer vision to classify debris in real time, with a live deployment on Ellerbe Creek in Durham, NC.
108,772 cities scored 28 deployment parameters Live NC deployment
SMathHacks 2026 Winner Stockholm Jr. Water Prize — 1st NC Wrote, shot & edited submission video
EAI DealFlow
Commissioned · Private
Contract DeveloperResearch AutomationInvestment Analysis
Built for EAI Capital to help their team stop drowning in research and start deciding. The platform takes a company URL and outputs a full packet: competitive analysis, industry positioning, market sizing, risk-benefit assessment, and a 0–100 deal score. Client work, shipped.
URL to research packet 0-100 deal score Outreach generation
Inflamend
In Progress
Mobile HealthPatient TrackingProduct Design
A close friend with Crohn's had no way to see a flare coming — no tool that connected what he ate, how he felt, and what was next. Inflamend tracks symptoms, food, and medication patterns so patients understand their own body before the next flare, not after.
NEST
Engineering DesignEnvironmental SystemsTeam Competition
Nitrogen Effluent Separation & Treatment — a system that intercepts nitrogen-laden runoff from Midwest tile drainage before it reaches waterways, using a two-stage biological and adsorption process to reduce nitrate loads to discharge-safe levels.
1st Place States — NC 8th Place Nationals

Experience

03 / 07

Where I've worked, researched, and led outside my own projects.

Quantitative Finance Association, UNC
Sep 2026 – Now
FICC Analyst, Discretionary Team
Pitch rates, FX, and commodity trades for the club's ~$100K AUM fund, grounded in macro research on central bank policy, inflation, yield curves, and global growth.
Young Investors Society, NCSSM
Jun 2025 – May 2026
Co-Founder & Vice President
Co-founded NCSSM's 50-member chapter and led weekly meetings on investing, market analysis, and a paper-traded portfolio built from member stock pitches. Brought in a Y Combinator founder and Duke alumni as speakers.
Research in Mathematics Program, NCSSM
Jan – Jun 2025
Student Researcher
Developed the Isonumeric Method with Dr. Michael Lavigne, a digit-based encoding that counts alkane structural isomers, and scaled it to 25-carbon alkanes.
PURE Youth Raleigh
2022 – 2024
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Grew a 501(c)(3) for children's education from 0 to 30+ ambassadors, reaching 100,000+ children across Uganda, India, and Kenya, and raised $10,000 through community partnerships and sponsorships.

Awards

04 / 07

Four years competing across engineering, analytics, music production, and web design. The range is the point.

Technology Student Association
4 Years
Freshman — Senior
Engineering Design 1st Place States 8th Place Nationals
Data Science & Analytics 2nd Place States Semifinalist Nationals Gold Regionals Bronze Regionals
Music Production (Team Leader) 2nd Place States 2× Gold Regionals
Senior Solar Sprint 1st Place States
Webmaster 7th Place Nationals
Biotechnology Design Bronze Regionals
Gold Presidential Volunteer Service Award
2024
Recognized for extensive volunteer service.
SMathHacks 2026
2026
Winner — GRIME.
Stockholm Junior Water Prize
2026
1st Place — North Carolina. Associated with GRIME; built the project, not involved with submission.
Global Conrad Challenge
2026
Semi-Finalist.

Music

05 / 07
01Nothing Was the Same — DrakeGrowing, Unsteady
02Blonde — Frank OceanWeightless, Exact
03The Fall Off — J. ColeMethodical, Storytelling
04At Long Last A$AP — A$AP RockyHazy, Wandering
05Late Registration — YeHungry, Orchestral
06Thriller — Michael JacksonCinematic, Timeless
07Illmatic — NasSharp, Dense

I listen to music the same way some people journal — closely, repeatedly, in the car going nowhere in particular. Nothing Was the Same taught me you can document your own growth in real time and call it art. That's what music does that nothing else does.

Shelf

06 / 07

Books I keep returning to because they changed how I think about systems, contradiction, beauty, quality, time, and proof.

// Books That Shaped Me

Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
Taught me that beauty in systems comes from the strange loops, not the rules.
The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky
Showed me a person can hold contradictions and still be whole.
Letters to a Young Poet
Rilke
The reason I trust my own questions more than other people's answers.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Pirsig
Quality is a verb — and you can feel it before you can name it.
The Sound and the Fury
Faulkner
Time isn't linear when you're remembering someone you loved.
A Mathematician's Apology
G.H. Hardy
A defense of beauty as the only honest reason to do anything.

// Currently Reading

In Progress
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
In Progress

Hello

07 / 07
Email abhavkk@gmail.com GitHub @abhav24 LinkedIn in/abhavk Twitter @abhav24 Resume View PDF ↗