Projects

A small robot that drives through factories and checks for heat, gas and corrosion in the places people don’t inspect often enough.

• It runs on a Raspberry Pi 4 and an ESP32, with a thermal camera, gas sensors for methane, ammonia, CO₂ and VOCs, ultrasonic sensors for getting around, and a live dashboard with SMS alerts.
• I started by spending my December 2024 internship at Aether Breweries watching how inspections actually happen, then came back a year later with the robot to pilot it there.
• It has since been tested at ten sites, including two thermal power plants, a distillery, a footwear factory and a government hospital. It found hotspots 7 to 12°C above normal and humidity pockets that led to changes in ventilation.
• After the pilot, Jindal India Power approved buying four more robots. Aether Breweries backed the next phase with a $27K technology development grant.
• The paper on it won Best Paper and runner-up for Best Presentation at the Global Confluence Review conference, and has been accepted by NHSJS Reports.

A dataset that helps small factories see how their working conditions wear their equipment down.

• While piloting SAFR I noticed that small manufacturers rarely keep the kind of records you’d need to predict when something will fail.
• So I started collecting them: 1,000+ annotated industrial images tagged with thermal, humidity and corrosion data.
• The goal is to make predictive maintenance possible for MSMEs, not just big companies. The Aether Breweries grant supports this phase.

A group I work with on engineering problems that don’t fit in a school lab.

• Working on a compact household biogas digester.
• Helping with a coordinated drone system for disaster response.

A guide to choosing skincare after a burn, written with the people who need it.

• I put together a guide that looks at post-burn skincare products through the materials they’re made of.
• We hosted a day with 150+ burn and acid attack survivors to go through it together and hear what was missing.
• Made care guides and resources to help people find treatment. Chhanv Foundation and a dermatology partner now use it.

I took the quiz format that worked with kids and turned it into safety training for factory workers.

• 18 sessions with 500+ workers, in pictures and in their own languages.
• Each round shows a real hazard photo: a gas leak, rusted pipes, chemicals stored wrong, a missing mask. Workers have to find what’s wrong.
• Made a kit other trainers can reuse: photo cards, answer guides and before and after quizzes.

Quizzes built from what kids already know: family recipes, cricket, their neighbourhood, the languages they speak at home.

• I noticed regular quizzes rewarded textbook knowledge and English, and left out everything these kids actually knew.
• Ran 24 quiz labs with 300 learners and built a 500 question bank from their own stories.
• Trained 20 of them to write and host their own rounds, so it doesn’t depend on me.
• It’s now being prepared to expand to more centres with CSR support.

I started as a classroom volunteer and ended up rewriting how science is taught there.

• Built lessons for 300+ kids in Grades 3 to 8 around things they see every day: dirty water, sanitation, pollution.
• Made a toolkit that turns quiz results into a map of what each kid hasn’t understood yet, so teachers know where to start.
• Partner schools and NGO programmes now use it. I still help adapt it for classrooms with very little equipment.

Representing a school of more than 9,500 students, and helping it start something new.

• Head Boy for 9,500+ students.
• The only student on the team that set up the school’s first IB Diploma Programme.
• On the Student Council and the Discipline Committee.

I brought back the school’s oldest club and helped start its newest one.

• Revived the Quiz Club with weekly quizzes and training, ran school and interschool competitions, and hosted the finals.
• Helped set up how the new Research Club does things: methods, standards and peer review.
• In the AI Lab, worked with humanoid robots and helped run Google Gemini Day.
• Third place at Quizzing Quotient, Spectrum-Mélange 2024.

Reading other students’ research the way I hope mine gets read: closely, with useful notes.

• Review student research papers before they’re published.
• Give feedback on methods, accuracy, research design and clarity.