grew up in chennai, india where i — learned a few languages, made magazines, mythology-inspired couture, played a lot of kho-kho and kabaddi, rapped in sanskrit with chyk, did competitive stand-up comedy (yes it's a thing), and built up very high spice tolerance. moved to america in 2023. now, on an average tuesday i'm probably thinking about hydrocarbons, listening to kuthu music, smelling flowers or cleaning up paint mess :o
curiosities / काम / ஆர்வம்
tested 300 bay area foods for endocrine-disrupting chemicals that leach from plastic with nat friedman at plasticlist.org
worked with dr.law at uncch to photometrically detect alien life on the asteroid belt. some cool pictures from then
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.