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2025 MIT Men's Cross Country Roster

Adarsh Iyer

  • Height 6-4
  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown San Jose, Calif.
  • High School Lynbrook
  • Major Computation and Cognition

Biography

Collegiate Career Statistics (TFRRS)


2024: 

  • Competed in four events, earning one top-ten finishes 
  • Ran a career-best 25:11.5 8k to earn a 5th-place finish at the 2024 Connecticut College Invitational 
  • Competed at the 2024 NEWMAC Championships, placing 22nd, running a 26:10.0 8k 

Before MIT: 

  • California Central Coast Section Outstanding Athlete Award
  • Three-time Santa Clara Valley Athletic League All-League Award
  • De Anza League All-League Award
  • Central Coast Section All-Section Award 
  • Two-time cross country state meet qualifier 
  • Three-time varsity MVP
  • Five-time Athlete of the Year
  • Four-time team captain 
  • Lynbrook Senior Athlete Award
  • Four-time Lynbrook Scholar-Athlete Award 
  • Valedictorian 
  • AP Scholar with Distinction
  • National Merit finalist 
  • AIME qualifier
  • Red White and Blue Award from AP Statistics Teacher for mathematical analyses of cross country races
  • Most Outstanding Musician (Symphonic Band) 
  • First high school author ever at the IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition Systems 
  • Runner-up Student Paper Award at IEEE conference among authors including graduate students 
  • Graduate-level research on deep learning and dynamical systems at UC Santa Barbara 
  • Developed end-to-end finish camera software for race timing 
  • Formulated a novel method for linear-circular regression and statistical inference 
  • Wrote a 96-page literature review on neural computing 
  • Secretary of the Machine Learning Club
  • Principal Tubist of the Santa Clara County Honor Band

Personal: 

  • Computer Vision research in the Scene Representation Group
  • ML Research and Engineering Intern at Continue.dev
  • Favorite Sports Memory: "Running a DMR with friends at the Arcadia Invitational." 

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete: 

  • "Spending the entire summer of 2025 with teammates"

Historical Player Information

  • 2024First Year

    6'4"
  • 2025Sophomore

    6'4"