25 Under 25 Honoree Aditya Bhatia

Aditya Bhatia doesn’t believe growth is a solo pursuit. It’s important that those around him are also learning and getting better. It's a philosophy he has held since his undergraduate days in India and one that has shaped every academic, professional and community endeavor he has pursued since arriving at Stevens.

In his first semester as a Master of Science in financial engineering student, while Bhatia earned a 4.0 GPA across all his courses, the result he speaks about most is not his own transcript. Throughout the semester, he led informal study sessions in probability theory, holding himself to a personal standard of not teaching a concept until he could explain it multiple ways. Every student who regularly attended those sessions finished the term with an A grade and a 4.0 GPA. For Bhatia, that outcome meant more than his own.

His instinct for collective growth was shaped early. Ranked first out of 500 students in Computer Systems and Applications during his undergraduate studies, he came to believe that achievement isolated from others is hollow. That conviction carried him to the Vice Chairperson role at Narsee Monjee Model United Nations, where, as the youngest executive board member, he learned to make high-stakes decisions and own the consequences. It later led him to Project UDAAN, the world's largest single-day entrepreneurship development drive, where he mentored more than 300 undergraduate students across 23 colleges, and the program earned entries in both the India Book of Records and the Asia Book of Records.

He has completed four internships, co-developed an automated business valuation system alongside an Assistant Vice President at Wells Fargo and generated more than 100,000 impressions sharing finance projects on LinkedIn. He currently serves as a Campus Assistant and volunteers with the Graduate Finance Club to keep building the kind of community he has always believed learning deserves.