Hi, I’m Adi.
I’m an Electrical and Computer Engineering student at UT Austin, class of 2029, and I do research there in the SWARM Lab, on whether vision-language models can reason across several cameras at once. I tutor math, physics, and computer science.
I’m a college student. For the problem you’re actually hiring for, that’s the qualification that matters most.
- $65/hr, one rate for every subject
- Sessions are sixty minutes, once a week, online over Google Meet, in the evening.
- Electrical and computer engineering, UT Austin, class of 2029
- The first 15-minute call is free.
Why I do this
We understood the material. We were losing points anyway.
I went to Saratoga High, one of the more competitive public schools in California. The thing I noticed in myself, and then in every student I’ve worked with since, is that we all understood the concepts. None of us were failing because the material was beyond us.
We had no repeatable way of approaching a test. We improvised every time and called the results careless.
The change came when I stopped improvising. I worked every problem in the book and built an explicit method for how I read a question and how I worked it under time, then used it on every question whether or not it seemed to need one. The scores followed the process.
That’s what I teach: the process that makes the next unfamiliar problem solvable, rather than the trick for the one in front of us. It’s the thing I built Balae to fix.
We were improvising every time and calling the results careless.
Background
University of Texas at Austin
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering
Class of 2029
Coursework in advanced mathematics, algorithms, computer architecture, signals and systems, linear algebra, and multivariable calculus.
SWARM Lab, UT Austin
Undergraduate Researcher
Since 2025
Research on whether vision-language models can reason across several cameras at once, in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. My part was building the surveillance half of the benchmark the group used to test it.
ECCV 2026
Co-author, accepted as a poster
2026
CrossView: Can Vision-Language Models Reason Across Cameras? One of seven authors, on a paper accepted for poster presentation at a major computer vision conference.
Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research
Student Researcher
Summer 2024
A summer on medical imaging research at the University of Utah, the year before starting at UT Austin.
What I teach
Physics
AP Physics 1, AP Physics 2, honors and on-level high school physics
Mathematics
Algebra 2 Honors, Precalculus Honors, Algebra I, Geometry, Trigonometry, AP Calculus AB/BC, multivariable calculus, linear algebra
Computer Science
Python, Java, introductory programming, AP Computer Science A
Before the first paid session
One year in business. Five years of teaching.
Balae was registered in August 2025. The teaching started in 2021, unpaid, and shifted to paid one-on-one tutoring in February 2026.
Saratoga High School Math Mentorship Program
- The math department runs a peer program founded in 2021 by one of its teachers, Lisa Ginestet-Araki. Students sign up to be mentored; mentors don’t sign up. Teachers recruited them, and matched each mentor with a student a level or two below. I met my mentee weekly during tutorial for two years, and spent those two years working out what makes an explanation land for someone who has already heard the good version of it once in class.
Redwood Middle School distance running
- I built the training program and delivered all of it, under the oversight of the high school coach: warmups, workout design, interval timing, and the day-to-day coaching. Three years, unpaid, from my sophomore year through my senior year. Twelve-year-olds don’t take up distance running for the glamour, and they can simply stop showing up, which makes it an unusually honest test of whether the thing you built is any good.
Legarza Sports
- A full summer as a camp coach after sophomore year, then back after senior year as game director, one of three director roles the organization names, at higher pay. The second summer is the part worth reading: they had already watched me work a full season before they handed me the floor.
Cross country and track
- Captain of both sports in both years, which is a smaller thing than the three above and belongs here mainly because peers can ignore a captain and largely did not.
What those years taught me is how to tell the difference between a student who says yes and a student who actually understands. They also taught me how to keep someone working through the week where nothing visibly improves, which every student hits. They did not teach me rotational dynamics; only the math mentorship is evidence of that half.
On having sat these exams recently
The case for hiring someone older is real: more students taught, more patterns seen, more years of practice at explaining the same thing twelve different ways. I’m not going to pretend that counts for nothing.
Here’s the case on the other side. I sat these exams in 2024 and wrote these applications the same year. When a student tells me the free-response section felt fine and the score came back a 3, I know what that specific failure feels like from the inside, because I had it. A tutor whose own last exam was decades ago has one answer available for that student: more practice problems. It’s the only tool the diagnosis leaves them.
There’s a less flattering advantage too. Most sixteen-year-olds will admit what they don’t understand to someone close to their own age, and will not admit it to an adult they’ve filed under teacher. A student who hides the gap doesn’t get it fixed. I get told the truth earlier than I’ve any right to, and it makes the work faster.
What I’m not
I’m not a special-education specialist. If a student needs accommodations or structured intervention for a diagnosed learning difference, that’s a job for a trained professional, not mine.
I’m not a substitute for a class a student is failing outright. Weekly tutoring works alongside a course; it can’t replace one.
I don’t do night-before cram sessions. There’s nothing to build in three hours, and taking the booking would be taking your money.
I don’t teach biology or the humanities, and I don’t take on more students than I can prepare properly for each week.
Worth a conversation?
Fifteen minutes, free. Tell me what you’re seeing and I’ll tell you what I think is causing it.
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