As a fellow high school student who has a good amount of experience and knowledge in deep learning, how would you recommend me to move forward? I am struggling to find opportunities to show off my work and knowledge, and would like some advice.
Otherwise, try reimplementing algorithms and blogging about them. Do fun projects like deploying a model online or to phones. If you are a fan of competitions, then you can try some Kaggle competitions. With some projects (if you say you have experience then you probably already done some) it should not be hard to get research experiences because you have something to show off. Remember to post your projects on Reddit and HackerNews to get internet points and encouragement! It is quite motivating.