what i've worked on

• currently testing bay area foods for chemicals that leach from plastic with nat friedman at plasticlist.org

• worked with dr.law at uncch to photometrically look for alien life on the asteroid belt. some cool pictures from then

• spent the past year+ diving deep into the plastic alternative space. made edible bioplastic from red algae for <$1/1.5m² in a makeshift lab at home. got an emergent ventures grant. recent update

• spent a year exploring the brain’s mysteries. wrote a book about the science of memory. convinced an iit-m professor to let me join his phd research group at 16, where i researched fetal memory development and phosphene-induced vision restoration. was a neurotech fellow at brains@play. and made an article repository about the journey.

about me

• grew up in chennai, india for most my life where i — learned 5 languages, handmade magazines, learned half the periodic table when i was nine, obsessed over hindu + greek mythology and designed met gala-esque dresses inspired by it, played kho-kho and kabaddi, rapped in sanskrit with chyk, learned to parasail and scuba dive on a random island in the bay of bengal, trained bharatnatayam briefly, convinced my school to let me skip exams for two years, and built up an extremely high spice tolerance.

• moved to america in 2023. attend uncch on a full ride for a year. currently on gap

living life

there’s just so much this world has to offer. "if you knew you’d go blind tomorrow, how intensely would you look at the world today?" a sub version of this is doing things i’m not exactly qualified to do — a blend of unpredictability x challenge

never let them know your next move, right? (;

• did stand-up comedy competitively (yes, it’s a thing) for 3 years.

• set a guinness record because i was bored during the pandemic

• got invited to have high tea with a baroness in the house of lords in london

• touched human brains and hearts (in a non-serial killer way)

• climbed a glacier on the alps

• spent the recent new years eve making a dagger

• tried out for a competitive salsa dance team with no experience

• trained swim with an olympian for a month

• stood on top of a nuclear reactor and watched fission emit cherenkov radiation

easter egg