Hi, I'm Khushi!

I've loved mathematics for as long as I can remember. Long before I understood what biostatistics or mathematical modelling meant, I was fascinated by how numbers could move beyond a page and influence decisions about people's lives, particularly within medicine.

As I progressed through high school, I kept expecting that connection to become clearer. I wanted to understand how the equations we were learning helped physicians make decisions, how probability shaped clinical research, or how mathematics could explain something as complex as the human brain.

But the connection I was looking for rarely appeared in my classes.

It wasn't that mathematics and medicine existed independently of one another. Quite the opposite. Their relationship was so fundamental to modern science that I couldn't understand why it wasn't something we explored more often.

Eventually, I began looking beyond the classroom.

Through a national Youth NeuroClimate Internship, I had the opportunity to learn from researchers and clinicians investigating how climate change affects neurological health. For the first time, I was engaging directly with questions I had wondered about for years: how do we quantify exposure to air pollution? How can statistics reveal patterns of vulnerability? And what happens when the measurements we rely upon fail to capture the experiences of the people they are supposed to represent?

I began to see mathematics not simply as a way of producing answers, but as a way of asking better questions.

History offers countless examples of what becomes possible when mathematical and medical thinking converge. John Snow used geographical patterns of cholera deaths to investigate disease transmission. Hodgkin and Huxley used equations to describe the electrical behaviour of neurons. Today, mathematics underpins everything from MRI reconstruction to clinical trials.

These advances did not emerge from calculation alone. They required people who could recognize connections between fields, question prevailing assumptions, and imagine new ways of understanding familiar problems.

And that brings me to M² Lab!

I wanted to create something I would have loved to encounter earlier in my education: a space where students could hear directly from people who are passionate about their research, see the mathematics embedded within it, and discover applications they might never have considered.

More importantly, I wanted that opportunity to be free.

I believe curiosity should not be limited by the resources of your school, the cost of an enrichment program, or whether you happen to know someone working in academia.

If mathematics is one of the foundations upon which modern medicine is built, understanding that relationship should not be a privilege.

M² Lab is my attempt to make that connection more visible, more accessible, and hopefully, the beginning of someone else's curiosity.

— Khushi Laroyia
Founder, Math × Medicine Lab