# Ananya Balaji > CS @ UMich Location: Fremont, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ananyabalaji The future is up to those who see things clearly. reach me at ananyasb@umich.edu ## Work Experience ### Product Manager @ Product Motion Jan 2025 – Present Built Nest, a better way to find off-campus housing for college students ### Product Studio - Software Engineer @ V1 @ Michigan Jan 2025 – Present Built Claire, the investigative terminal for political event prediction markets ### Research Assistant @ University of Michigan - School of Information Jan 2025 – Present - Contributing to development of Plurals, a Python package for multi-agent deliberation - Building applications in ballot summarization and techniques for neutralization in deliberative models ### Analyst @ Paebbl Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 @Perot Jain Tech Lab, Climate Change Group - Performed research on US-market for environmentally friendly cementitious products - Created multilayer ArcGIS map to scope supply/demand, competition factors, and logistics across US - Conducted CRITIC method multi-criteria decision analysis to compare states based on market-relevant policy factors ### HP Tech Ventures Externship @ Extern Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 - Via Extern connected with mentorship from HP Tech Ventures team - Conducted a basic market analysis to become familiar with emerging trends, competitive landscape, and key opportunities for growth in the AI-enabled productivity tools market - Conducted research to source a startup that aligned with the HP Tech Venture’s investment thesis - Conducting due diligence on a startup to prepare an investment summary to highlight the viability and growth potential of potential investments ### Student Board Member @ Fremont Unified School District Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 - Represented 32K students through a seat on the Board of Education where I cast a preferential vote on regular agenda items such as middle school renovations budgets, establishment of first-ever Hindi language program in a CA public school, reviews of the School Resource Officer program, etc - Led advisory council of 15 high schoolers from 5 high schools to power advocacy efforts, connect directly with student insights, and host events like a public forum and leadership conference for elementary schoolers - Gained proficiency in education policy ### Peer Point Youth Leadership Team @ Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY) Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Volunteered with program targeted at ending the school-to-prison pipeline through bringing novel restorative justice practices to San Mateo county youth ### Operations Captain @ Space Cookies Robotics Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 - Competed in international circuit of competitive high school robotics, FIRST - Raised thousands of dollars through writing grant proposals and working on sponsor stewardship for companies like Intuitive Surgical and Lockheed Martin - Worked towards winning Regional Impact Award for outreach efforts and Team Sustainability Award for excelling at having organizational practices towards long-term success ### AI Project @ Inspirit AI Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 - Learned AI basics from Python to KNN models to more advanced topics like NLP with LSTM and BERT models - Created a final project that implemented the BERT sentiment analysis model that used sentiment analysis on Tweets to predict stock investments with 98% accuracy ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science University of Michigan ### American High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ananya-balaji357 --- Source: https://flows.cv/ananyabalaji JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ananyabalaji/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10