Growth Is at the Edge of Your Comfort Zone | Charan Sridhar | TEDxBISV Youth

Charan has stuttered for as long as he can remember, and until recently, it made the very idea of social interaction terrifying. All of us have some limitations holding us back from accomplishing our dreams, and in this moving talk, Charan details the power of venturing outside of our comfort zone to overcome our restraints. Charan Sridhar is a sophomore attending BASIS Independent Silicon Valley who is passionate about computer science. Charan’s life goal is to use computer science to ensure improved quality of life and equality for everyone, especially marginalized communities. He is an intern at AImpower, where he is working on equity in technology with a current focus on fair speech-to-text systems. His entrepreneurial spirit drove him to found a Data Science and Machine Learning Club at his school, create hackathon-winning projects aimed at helping those in need, and work on AI research projects that focus on increasing healthcare accessibility, improving medical condition diagnosis accuracy, and evaluating the steganographic capabilities of ML models. In his free time, Charan enjoys playing classical guitar and working on model kits. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx