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2024 fellow
Khaidar Atagulla
Kazakhstan
Khaidar is a STEM-enthusiast from Kazakhstan who is passionate about accelerating positive change for visually impaired people globally. For his Rise project he developed RikaAI, an AI-powered app that utilizes VR to assist people with impaired vision and enables them to interact via spoken prompts. RikaAI placed second in Infomatrix-Asia 2023 and placed third in the Startup Battle at Google Devfest. Khaidar aspires to study computer science at a technical university, and enhance the features of RikaAI to become more accessible while growing his team.