Shreyas Hallur T’23 Named Samvid Scholar

Duke alumnus Shreyas Hallur T’23 has been named a 2025 Samvid Scholar by Samvid Philanthropies, a philanthropic foundation dedicated to improving lives and advancing society. 

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Established in 2021, the Samvid Scholars Program empowers mission-driven graduate students with exceptional track records of impact to lead transformative change for society through leadership development, community and financial support. 

Originally from Phoenix, Ariz., Hallur graduated from Duke in 2023 with degrees in statistics and public policy, and has devoted much of his studies and scholarship to supporting autistic people. In Phoenix, he formed a partnership of non-profits to make museums more accessible for autistic visitors and their families — an initiative receiving over $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation. He also conducted research at the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development, supporting the development of an inclusive autism screening tool. 

While at Duke, Hallur was an A.B. Duke Scholar, Nakayama Scholar, and Margolis Scholar in Health Policy. In 2023, he was named a Rhodes Scholar and spent two years studying sociology and policy at the University of Oxford. 

He is currently an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School and plans to continue focusing his studies on supporting community health and long-term care, particularly for autistic people.

Hallur is one of 20 Scholars selected from a pool of more than 1,000 applicants. Joining him in the 2025 cohort is fellow Duke alumnus Kashyap Sreeram, who graduated in 2024 with a Program II self-designed major, entitled “Computational Neurogenetics in Practice.” Now an MD-PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Sreeram plans to devote his career to analyzing the cellular and molecular processes that drive neurodegenerative diseases.

Read the original announcement on Duke Today.