19-Year-Old Earns PhD, Becomes One of the World’s Youngest Students to Achieve the Feat
A 19-year-old recently finished his PhD, becoming one of the world’s youngest students to achieve such an incredible feat.
Netizens praise him for the achievement, though some are joking that they’re already too old to break his record.
19-Year-Old Among the World’s Youngest Students to Earn PhD
Whenever one talks about a PhD or doctor in philosophy, the image of a bespectacled middle-aged person might come to mind. However, this stereotype no longer applies because PhDs are becoming younger in recent years.
For example, a young Pinay recently went viral because she’s set to become a “space doctor” as she will soon start her PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
But another impressive young student amazed everyone.
Photo credit: Dr. Tanishq Mathew Abraham
Dr. Tanishq Mathew Abraham, an Indian American student, is just 19 years old but he has already completed the PhD program.
That’s quite an amazing feat, considering that most teens around this age are still fresh out of senior high school and are likely to still be in their freshman year in college.
Yet Abraham is far advanced for his age and had already completed college, earned his master’s degree, and finished his PhD by then!
What’s heartwarming is that he reportedly focused on the development of AI systems that can be used diagnostic pathology. This means that through this study, AI systems might soon help diagnose illnesses – and that’s an exciting breakthrough in the medicine field.
How Did One Student Finish PhD at 19?
It’s clear that Abraham had already been an achiever at a young age to reach this amazing feat at 19.
It turned out that he was already taking part-time college courses at a tender age of 7! Whoa. He was homeschooled by his software engineer father and veterinarian researcher mother in Sacramento, California.
At 10, he graduated from high school. Then, at 14, he earned his biomedical engineering degree from UC Davis.