Nayanika Madhav is currently serving as a Certified Medical Assistant at PediaTrust LLC and a Research Intern at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where involvement includes the Food Science and Human Nutrition Teaching Team. Nayanika also holds the position of Health and Well-being Coordinator for the Illinois Student Council and is a member of Alpha Epsilon Delta. Previous experience includes working as a Research Assistant in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, focusing on histology analysis and molecular techniques, and as a Research Intern at Northwestern Medicine, where DNA and RNA extraction was performed. Nayanika is pursuing education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, following graduation from Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, IL.