My Journey
President of India Interaction
One-on-one with the President of India, talking about where Indian innovation goes next.
Product Video : Mouse 2
Led development of a BLE mouse that reimagines human-computer interaction for CAD designers — owned it from concept to working prototype.
Product Video : Dings, Oranamental IOT
Drove a voice-of-customer-led IoT product designed for women, by women — from user research through to build.
Episodic labs : Electronics and Innovation
Hired, built, and led a team that turned “innovative” from a buzzword into shipped hardware.
India-Israel Technology Initiative
Demoed our tech one-on-one to Modi and Netanyahu.
Consultancies
The consultant they called when the problem didn’t fit a template — across wildly different domains.
Start-Up of Year 2018
Named Start-Up of the Year 2018, with the award handed over by the Union Minister of Commerce & Industry.
Atal Innovation Medal
Awarded the Atal Innovation Medal — India’s nod to its entrepreneurs, creators, and nation-builders.
AI Outdoors Cam , Edge-Computing Pro-Sports.
An AI camera tough enough to live outdoors and smart enough to read the game — edge computing for pro sports.
Founder : Episodic Labs
Founded Episodic Labs on a stubborn conviction: that world-class electronics can be built in India. Grew it to a $3M valuation.
E-INK screen with event dating algorithms for MICE
A smart e-ink badge that spots the right person in a crowded room and taps you on the shoulder.
Thesis won 84000 USD grant by DST-INDIA.
Turned high-dimensional scientific data into sound, so the ear could catch patterns the eye kept missing — and won an $84K DST-India grant for it.
Navigation Algorithms at IISc .
Graph theory that finds its way through a building — navigation algorithms built at IISc, funded by BMW.
COVID Contact-Tracing Gadget
Quick R&D and deployment, through COVID — a BLE contact tracing indoor device for organisational safety.
Car Pooling Algorithm
Wrote a car-pooling algorithm for India’s taxis before Uber Pool existed — and learned what “at scale” really means.
Deutscher Akademischer Scholarship
Won a German scholarship to go deep on hyperspectral data science at HFT-Stuttgart.
Research at Masdar/MIT
Chasing light and data in the Masdar/MIT hyperspectral camera lab, under Dr. Marpu.
Physics dream as a Teen
It started with a Physics degree and a teenage crush on the great theorists.
My Rumblings
Running through my curiosities and my experiences as I learn and find the known and unknown , the touched and the untouched.
Sociology : Crowd vs Individual , The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895)
The law of mental unity. When people gather into a psychological crowd, they form a kind of "collective mind" that makes them feel, think, and act quite differently than they would…
Pirates Vs Navy : Why Corporates and Small-business solve The Ocean differently.
Pirate vs Navy I've sat in both kinds of rooms, and you can usually tell which one you're in within about four minutes. In one room, somebody says "let's just…
Perception Cycles vs Human Behavior : People like Progress but they are not sure about Change.
Everyone cheers for progress because progress is imagined, and imagination is free — it costs nothing to picture the after photo, so we fall in love with it. Change is…