Core Team

Stuti Vishwaban (Founder of TST)
President from 2013 - 2016
Stuti Vishwabhan, a current student at MIT, started Teach Seniors Technology in 2013. Stuti has an excellent academic profile and has won numerous awards. She has won the Top Student Award of her class of 2016 consecutively for the last three years. She enjoys sharing her teaching skills with people of all ages. She was the President of the high school Math and Science Academy and an officer in the Women in Computer Science club. At her school, she helped her peers with Math and Spanish tutoring. All these experiences helped Stuti take her passion of knowledge sharing to the next level. Stuti believes that by educating seniors about technology, she can help bridge the generation gap. Stuti was also President of another non-profit organization called International Association of Youth (theiay.org) and raised money to donate sleeping bags and hygiene supplies to the homeless. In her free time, Stuti loves to sing and play the guitar.

Officers

Alan Zhang
President from 2020 - now
Alan is currently a senior at Lynbrook High School. He started volunteering in his freshman year. Alan has a passion in technology and has been learning coding for many years. He is glad to be able to contribute to enhancing local seniors lives and to apply his skills to help the TST organization. Alan rebuilt TST website which greatly improved volunteer application process. He recruited new volunteers and assisted in new chapter creation. Alan volunteers at the Guidepost Gospel Church Chapter and is well liked by the seniors attending classes at that location. Alan is passionate about assisting under privileged population. At school, Alan is an officer for the Global Hunger Initiative club. He created a non-profit org call School Supply to help provide school supply for students in Cambodia, and he is a Chapter President of The Village Shed which focuses on improving water infrastructure of local communities. Outside of school, Alan enjoys playing on-line games with friends, basketball and swimming.

Arnav Singhvi
President from 2018 - 2020
Arnav attended American High School in Fremont, CA and is now attending college. He enjoys playing sports like basketball and football and is an avid sports fan. Arnav participates in Speech & Debate and has won awards in various tournaments for Lincoln-Douglas debate and Humorous Interpretation Speech. Arnav also loves math and has participated in tournaments like MathCounts, MathLeague and AMC. He is Martial Arts second degree Black Belt holder. He created his own non-profit organization called We4U whose aim is to provide relief to natural disaster victims and has raised over 10K for the Santa Rosa, Carr and Camp fire victims and the Kerala flood victims. He also volunteers in the American Cancer Society, helping out with sorting donations.

Michelle Zhang
President from 2016 - 2018
Michelle now attends Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business. She has a strong passion towards improving the lives of seniors in her area. Michelle was the first TST volunteer who focused on teaching mobile device usage and life simplifying apps. She extended the service to the Chinese speaking community by starting the Guidepost Gospel Church Chapter in May of 2015. She teaches in Mandarin and has created user-friendly handouts to aid the seniors' learning. Michelle plays tennis and was on school tennis team. Outside of school, she enjoys playing guitar and singing.

Karthik Talluri
Vice President- Organization Attendance
Karthik is a Senior at Saint Francis High School. Along with having received a Presidential Gold Service Award for volunteering, Karthik also plays competitive Table Tennis and has received many US National Championship Gold, Silver and Bronze medals earning him a position in USA top 50 of his age group. Since middle school his interest towards science, technology led him to pursue high school courses that he uses to bring a problem to a solution using various business practices. Karthik believes that the difference between the impossible and the possible lies in one’s determination. He embraces the qualities of integrity, perseverance and listening as he believes these will allow him to succeed as a person with character and support his community. Karthik started the Barbara Lee Senior Center Chapter in September of 2015.

Emily Hsu
Vice President- Organization Curriculum
Emily is a senior at Lynbrook High School. This is her fourth year volunteering with Teach Seniors Technology. Besides volunteering, Emily is a first violinist in the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, as well as the Concertmaster of Lynbrook's Chamber/Symphony Orchestra. At school, Emily has been on the Varsity Girls Golf Team since freshman year. She was also fortunate to be selected as a member of the Lynbrook Spanish Honor Society since sophomore year. Emily is grateful for being able to apply the bilingual and technological skills that she has gained over the years to teach many seniors who are eager to learn technology. She enjoys bringing joy to their faces when they understand new concepts.