My Work

Work Experience

• Innovators Club of India (June 2008 – January 2013)

• MIT Media Lab: ReDx (July 2013 – June 2015)

• TreeLabs at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (August 2013 – November 2013)

• M5 Makerspace at University of Massachusetts Amherst (September 2016 - May 2017)

• HyTech Electric Car Racing (September 2017 - November 2017)

• Policy Advisor for National Education Policy - Ministry of Human Resource Development, India (November 2017)

• Chief Innovation and Strategy officer - Artis (May 2019 - January 2020)

Projects

• • MitoCell: Decentralised, Modular, Artificially Intelligent Lithium Ion Energy Storage Units (August 2019 - May 2020)

  • BioAcoustics: Using Signal Processing and Machine Learning to track bird populations in Urban Environments (April 2020)

  • Treat Covid:Platform independent progressive web app to connect patients to nearest hospitals, hospitals to arrange appropriate resources for incoming patients and for government officials to arranged makeshift facilities in a pandemic (March 2020)

  • Covid Ventilator: Low cost, easy to produce Open Source ventilator for use during shortages and emergencies in a pandemic (March 2020)

  • Active Noise Cancellation in hospital rooms with gradient descent based adaptive nLMS filter (March 2020)

  • Seismic Search Engine for Earthquake images (February 2020)

  • Dynamic memory allocation based ARM video game (April 2018)

  • Mental Health Recovery tracking application (August - December 2017)

  • EEG Based wheelchair for people with neurological disorders(October 2016)

  • Air Quality Monitoring Device (January 2016)

  • Hand Gesture controlled robotic arm (October 2015)

  • Force-Electricity relationship in Piezoelectric plates(August 2015)

  • Low cost foam cutting (May 2015)

  • Low cost desktop 3D printing (May 2011 - June 2015)

  • Wearable ECG monitoring belt (January 2014 - January 2015)

  • Hand gesture controlled vehicle (January 2014)

  • Stereo Pupil Tracker using an android tablet (October 2013)

  • Haptic Feedback E-reader for the visually impaired (July 2013) 

  • PIR based motion detection system (June 2013)

  • Automated Gardening System (September 2012)

  • 'Sudarshan' - cutter robot for RoboWars (January 2012)

  • Water Leak and Level detector  (October 2011)

  • Atari Punk Console (May 2010)

Classes taught 

• • Eagle CAD for engineers - Taught to final year students of ECE at UMass Amherst (Spring 2017)

  • 3D Printing for engineers - Taught to registered students of ECE at UMass Amherst (Spring 2017)

  • Intro to soldering electronics - Taught to registered students of ECE at UMass Amherst (Spring 2017) 

Public Speaking

• TEDx: 

  • TEDxGateway 2013

  • TEDxHewlett Packard Bangalore 2014(Private Corporate Event) 

  • TEDxNUS Singapore 2015

  • TEDxYouth@DAIS 2015

  • TEDxYouth@JNIS 2017

• Other: 

  • Guest Speaker at CNBC Martech Marathon (Spoke to 250+ of India's top CXOs/CMOs/CEOs) (June 2018)

  • Guest Speaker at SRM University Chennai(Spoke to 7000 engineering students) (August 2017)

  • Guest Speaker at Oberoi International School Mumbai (June 2017)

  • Panelist at Zinnov Confluence with CEO, Microsoft Accelerator, Bangalore (June 2017)

  • Speaker at JOSH talks Ahmadabad (June 2016) 

  • Speaker at Under 25 Summit Bangalore ( January 2016) 

  • Speaker at ExpressO talks (November 2015) 

  • Guest Speaker at Google Developers Group VJTI (December 2014) 

  • Guest Speaker at Nokia solve for X hackathon Mumbai  (July 2014) 

  • Guest Speaker at Quark – Birla Institute of Technology Goa (February 2014)             

  • Guest Speaker at Taqneeq – Mukesh Patel College of Engineering (October 2014)

  • Guest Speaker at Govt of India TIFAC Delhi  (February 2014) 

  • Guest Speaker at Datta Meghe College of Engineering (October 2014) 

  • Guest Speaker at Aditya Birla Group Annual Director Meetup (January 2014) 

  • Guest Speaker at Hindustan Unilever Limited Annual Director Meetup Goa (March 2014) 

  • Guest Speaker at Maker Day Mumbai (October 2014)         

Tech competitions participated in

1. HackUMass (October 2016) 

2. MIT Media Lab ReDx Health Tech (January 2015) 

3. MIT Media Lab ReDx Health Tech (January 2014)

4. MIT Media Lab ReDx Eye Diagnostics (October 2013)

5. MIT Media Lab DIy Engineering the eye (July 2013) 

6. Google Science Fair (July 2014) [Top 90 world-wide] 

7. Microsoft Solve for Bombay, Studio X (August 2014) 

8. IIT Techfest, Magneto – Hand gesture controlled vehicle(January 2014)

9. IIT Techfest, RoboWars – Heavy duty robot fighting (January 2013)

10. IIT Techfest, RoboPolo and Water Rocketry (January 2012)

11. IIT Techfest, Solar Splash – Solar Boat (January 2011)

12. KJ Somaiya Vigyan Yagna, Automated Gardening System  (September 2012)

13. Inspire Awards, Solar Boat (July 2011)[State level finalist]

Awards and Honors

1. Dean's list - Awarded to students with high academic performance @ Georgia Tech. ( Fall 2017, Spring 2018)

2. Dean's list - Awarded to students with high academic performance @UMass. ( Fall 2016, Spring 2017)

3. Best Citizen Award - Awarded at high school graduation ceremony by Indian poet Shri. Javed Akhtar (June 2016) 

4. Most Outstanding Student Award - Awarded at high school annual day by school founder (January 2016) 

5. Youngest Innovator Award - Awarded at the annual nationwide 3D printing Industry gathering in Mumbai city by the founder of the community(October 2015)

6. 2nd Best Debater - Awarded at the annual Jamnabai Narsee International School Alumni Association of the school for competing against teachers and alumni debaters on social issues(September 2015) 

7. Google - Youngest Speaker, Awarded at the Google Developers Group meet up at VJTI Engineering college in Mumbai (December 2014) 

8. Google Science Fair Regional Finalist  - Awarded during the Google Science Fair 2014 at Google’s office in Hyderabad, India for making it to the top 90 projects list worldwide (June 2014)

9. Pitch for MIT to President of India - Selected to present our team project to ex-president of India Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam on the inauguration of our new MIT-India lab in Hyderabad, India (October 2013) 

10. Pitch for MIT to Industrialist - Among the 3 students selected to pitch to the chairman of Tata Group Mr. Ratan Tata to raise capital for MIT Media Lab india Initiative(August 2013)

11. INSPIRE AWARD - State level finalist at the National Inspire Award - a STEM competition for students across India(July 2011)