The Economic Times

Bihar farmers son cracks IIT-JEE at 12, goes from IIT Kanpur to PhD in US and AI research

Satyam Kumar became one of Indias youngest IIT entrants after cracking the IIT-JEE at 12 and securing AIR 670 a year later. The Bihar-born engineer went on to study electrical engineering at IIT Kanpur, work on robotics and research, complete a PhD in the US at 24, intern at Apple and move into machine learning research at Texas Instruments.