Rushil Shah
Finance, biology,
and things worth building.
My name is Rushil, and I’m a Carolina Scholar at UNC Chapel Hill working across finance, biology, and entrepreneurship. I’m currently building Quelzo, an evidence-intelligence layer designed to turn fragmented clinical literature into structured, decision-ready insight for epidemiology, neurology, and family medicine.
From soil, through matter
A connected body of work on heavy-metal remediation: first examining phytoextraction through living systems, then developing humic acid-based methodologies to improve removal from contaminated environments.
Into markets
A 796-participant, multidisciplinary study combining multilevel latent class analysis with a quantitative model for identifying susceptibility and artificial growth around celebrity-endorsed cryptocurrencies.
3× Regeneron International Science & Engineering Fair FinalistAtlanta · Dallas · Los Angeles
J.P. Morgan
Incoming 2027 Investment Banking Summer Analyst · New York
MiddleGround Capital
Private Equity Summer Analyst · Lexington
Edgewater Strategy Group
Investment Banking Summer Analyst · Bogotá, Colombia · Hogan Fellowship
The Signal Layer
Occasional writing on companies, sectors, and the information underneath a market’s first impression.
↗FOUNDED 2020
Brevard Finance for Youth
Built to make financial literacy more available in Florida’s Title I schools: 1,500+ students reached, four food drives supporting 800+ students, and statewide advocacy through two TEDx talks and testimony before the Florida House of Representatives.