ACES
World-Class Competitions & Internships for Building University Applications.
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32+ COUNTRIES.
Competitors at ACES come from over 30 different countries around the world across 5 continents.
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3+ COMPETITIONS
Join up to 3 large-scale, international ACES competitions in addition to our pitch and debate tournaments.
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$40M+ INTERNSHIPS
ACES members receive guaranteed offers to $40M+ investment funds, medical research institutions, and tech startups.
OUR ALUMNI
ACES alumni have been accepted into & associated with top universities and institutions worldwide.
PARTNERED WITH
ACES (Advanced Curriculums for Educational Studies) is an international educational institution focused on inspiring generations of Business & STEM students through internships, international competitions, scholarships, and opportunities.
backed by WORLD-CLASS leaders
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James Defauw
Fortune 500 Managing Consultant at McKinsey & Company
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Gunjan Paliwal
MS at MIT, Advisory at Harvard Business Review, Product at Meta
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Tony Le
Former UCLA College Admissions Reader, CEO at Egel Loc
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Vinod Goje
Vice President at Bank of America, former Tech Lead at Infosys
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Josh Jia
Lecturer at Princeton & Wharton, Investment Banker at BMO
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Guy-V. Jourdan
Professor at University of Ottawa, CEO of Decision Academic
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Vedant Lnu
Founding Engineer at $150 Million Startup Spotnana, formerly at AT&T
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Kaustubh Prabhakar
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI on ChatGPT project
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Praveen Gujar
Director of Product at LinkedIn, former Product Lead at Twitter & Huawei
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Arry Pandher
Head of Marketing & Growth at GrantMe, National TD Scholar
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Verena Kantere
Associate Professor at University of Ottawa
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Kunvar Chokshi
Former TechLead at Apple, Engineer at NVIDIA and Tesla
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Ryan Xie
CEO of Ground Robotics, Former SE at Canvas, MS
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Nurzhan Nogerbek
Top UK Engineer Lead at Nomios, Former Stock Exchange SE
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Xipu Li
Co-Founder & CTO at Forget, Software Engineer at Amazon
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Het Mistry
Top Data Science Voice on LinkedIn, Business Analyst at NFCU
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Nikunj Kotecha
Lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, SE at Brainchip & Oracle
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Weining Qian
Product Manager at TikTok & Ebay, MS at New York University
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Jean-Gabriel Gaudreault
Professor at Collège La Cité
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Santhosh K. Gopal
Board of Directors at CMG, Senior Advisor at CVS Health
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Viacheslav Shago
TechLead at Sberbank, former Software Engineer at Drimmi
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Sanjana Kandi
SE at NVIDIA, Carnegie Mellon University
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Asmaa Hailane
Researcher at National Institute of Standards & Technology
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Sameet Sonawane
Senior Data Scientist at Toshiba, Mentor at MIT
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Jason Wu
Deep Learning/ML Compiler Engineer at Apple
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Ryan Haraki
VP of Tech at UBC Blockchain, Product Manager at Google
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Kaustubh Baskaran
Venture Analyst at Catalyst XL and Futuraiser
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Abdul Sajid Mohammed
PhD, Senior SE at Microsoft
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Nicolas Znamenski
Cybersecurity Consultant at IBM, Former SE at Global Affairs
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Abhilash B. S.
Site Reliability at TikTok, MS from University of Southern California
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Seojoon Oh
Product Manager at Uber, University of Chicago MBA
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Ishaan Agerwal
PM at Square & Microsoft, MS from Brown University
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Ehsan Nazari
Researcher at University of Ottawa and Tehran Polytechnic
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Zoey Jin
Product Manager at Blizzard, Diablo Franchise, former PhD
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Tebogo Chaka
Google Facilitator, DT Coach at University of Cape Town
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Yifan Zou
Senior Engineer at Bilibili, TechLead at Dream Voyage, MS
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Sukanya Moorthy
Former Software Engineer at Yahoo, Machine Learning at Credit Karma
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Aditi Godbole
Top AI Voice on LinkedIn, Data Scientist at SAP and Nissan
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Letian Xu
Software Engineer at Google, former SDE at Meta & Amazon
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Madhur Singal
Founding Engineer at Spotnana, former Strategy SE at APT Portfolio
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Finys Cai
CEO of Marshmallow, former Consultant at Illinois Business Consulting
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Vidyasagar Ranganaboina
Co-Founder of Argentive, YC S23
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Xiaoyi Geng
Master’s in Business Analytics, former Analyst at Tiger Brokers & PwC
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Lohith Paripati
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft, Walmart, & Samsung
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Maxime Defauw
MEng at UC Berkeley, Software Engineer at Palantir
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David Yu
Trading Quant at PIMCO, former Quant Researcher at QMS Capital
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Siddharth Gupta
Director of Data Science at Coupang, Senior Manager at Meta
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Borna Shani
Director of Investments at Front Row Ventures, Venture Capitalist
INFO
FAQs
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Yes. ACES Guest Speaker Events are FREE and ONLINE internationally for all students to participate in.
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ACES offers certifications to boost your resume and university applications. Certifications are problem solving oriented, being based on industry and university level skills and knowledge.
You may get certified after studying for and completing a certification exam, upon which you’ll receive a unique certification ID code and a digital certificate you may add to your linkedin or resume. Learn more via the Certifications page on the website.
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Events at ACES are online and accessible from anywhere around the world. You may sign up via Event Schedule on this site.
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During specific ACES Events and in our Discord Community, we offer insider information on university applications, extracurricular opportunities, and building careers. You’ll also learn technical knowledge, skills, and lessons from STEM and business careers. You may join events in the Event Schedule page and join our community in the Community Page.
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ACES includes a community for all students, featuring educational lectures relevant to both universities and high school students.
