Student researcher · Mountain View, California
Vihaan Manipatruni
Research, science, and curiosity
Hi, I’m Vihaan Manipatruni, a student researcher at Khan Lab School in Mountain View, California. The school was founded by Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy.
I work with Professor Diane Stadler at the OHSU School of Medicine.
Research interests
- Computational nutrition using large language models and knapsack methods (NUTRITION 2026 poster)
- Ultra-processed food exposure in U.S. children
- AI for science
- Quantum encryption networks
Presentations
- NUTRITION 2026, American Society for Nutrition, Washington, D.C. area — Late-Breaking News Poster
- IFoRE 2026 — Sigma Xi Student Research Conference
- Northwest Science Expo 2026 — winner in Food Science and Nutrition; American Statistical Association Award; 2026 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Top 300
- Northwest Science Expo 2025 — Naval Excellence in Science and Engineering Award (official award list, page 33)
Beyond research
Here’s my cubing history at the World Cube Association.
Books
A curated list, most recent first.
- I, Robot — Isaac Asimov · Amazon
- Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen · Amazon
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain · Amazon
- The Trials of Apollo (series) — Rick Riordan · Amazon
- Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe — Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw · Amazon
- “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” — Richard P. Feynman · Amazon
- The Complete Calvin and Hobbes — Bill Watterson · Amazon
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream — William Shakespeare · Amazon
- The Red Pyramid — Rick Riordan · Amazon
- The Lord of the Rings — J. R. R. Tolkien · Amazon
- The Overstory — Richard Powers · Amazon
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series) — Jeff Kinney · Amazon
- Roots* — Alex Haley · Amazon
- Minecraft Stories — Various authors · Amazon
- The Silmarillion — J. R. R. Tolkien; edited by Christopher Tolkien · Amazon
- Rendezvous with Rama — Arthur C. Clarke · Amazon
- “What Do You Care What Other People Think?” — Richard P. Feynman · Amazon
- The Lion of Mars — Jennifer L. Holm · Amazon
- The Hunger Games trilogy — Suzanne Collins · Amazon
- The Expanse (series) — James S. A. Corey · Amazon
- Charlotte’s Web — E. B. White · Amazon
- Bud, Not Buddy — Christopher Paul Curtis · Amazon
- When You Trap a Tiger — Tae Keller · Amazon
- The Hobbit — J. R. R. Tolkien · Amazon
- Ready Player One — Ernest Cline · Amazon
- Ready Player Two — Ernest Cline · Amazon
- Change Is the Only Constant — Ben Orlin · Amazon
- What If? and What If? 2 — Randall Munroe · Amazon
- Math with Bad Drawings — Ben Orlin · Amazon
- A Wish in the Dark — Christina Soontornvat · Amazon
- Thing Explainer — Randall Munroe · Amazon
- Harry Potter (series) — J. K. Rowling · Amazon
- Introducing Game Theory: A Graphic Guide — Ivan Pastine and Tuvana Pastine; illustrated by Tom Humberstone · Amazon
- The Adventures of Tintin (series) — Hergé · Amazon
- George’s Secret Key to the Universe (series) — Lucy Hawking and Stephen Hawking · Amazon
- How To — Randall Munroe · Amazon
- Math Games with Bad Drawings — Ben Orlin · Amazon
To be continued…
Arriving soon
- Games created by me
- Minecraft mods
My cartoons
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My doodle inventions
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