Shashwat Tripathi is a student leader and website manager for the Comprehensive Care Research Team at Dell Medical School. He oversees website design and two blogs (Medical Myths and Sports Blog).

He is a Junior at UT Austin where he is a triple major (Mathematics, Neuroscience, and Biology). As part of the polymathic program, his senior thesis focuses on characterizing synaptic neuronal noise in the brain. Apart of his research with Dell Medical School and UT Austin, Shashwat is also involved in research with the Department of Neurosurgery at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Fl. After graduation, Shashwat hope to attend medical school in hopes of one day becoming a neurosurgeon.