05 · Journey

From age 10 to now.

Football, AI, projects, and everything in between.

Age

10

First touch of the ball

Football

Started Football

Where the obsession began.

Age

11

Curiosity meets code

AI

Fell in love with AI

First contact with ML; the curiosity wouldn't quit.

Project

Built MediQuick

First real project: AI that could actually help people.

Age

12

Leveling up, on the field and on screen

Football

First Football Tournament

Stepped onto a real competitive pitch.

Project

Built NutriTrack

AI nutrition tracking, making health playful.

Sport

Started Tennis

New racket, new reflexes.

Sport

Started Horse Riding

Balance, trust, and a different kind of speed.

Age

13

The Innovation Story era

Milestone

Joined TIS: The Innovation Story

Found a community to deep-dive into AI with.

AI

Deep-dive into AI

Transformers, computer vision, sports intelligence.

Project

Built MatchMind

AI football analysis: tactical reports from match video, plus a detection-and-tracking prototype.

Milestone

Won ISSO 🏆

National champions, U-14 Football (Indian School Sports Organization).

Football

SGFI & KSFA Tournaments

Represented and competed at state and national level.

2026

Boston

Boston chapter: the MIT arc

Milestone

Flew to Boston

Met an incredible circle of researchers, founders and mentors.

Milestone

Presented MatchMind across MIT and Boston

Shared MatchMind with researchers, founders and mentors including Ramesh Raskar (MIT Media Lab), Vladimir Bulović (MIT.nano), Ed Moriarty (MIT Edgerton Center), Leigh and Sam Estabrooks (MIT Lemelson), John Werner, Brendan McSheffrey, Abhishek Mehta (Tresata) and Joongwha Byeon (K-Pop Times).

Milestone

Internship with K-Pop Times

Interning with Joongwha Byeon's company.

AI

Upgraded MatchMind AI

Sharpened the system with feedback from these mentors and professors.

Milestone

Recognized, MIT Lemelson Program 🎖️

Recognized by the MIT Lemelson Program.

Project

Next for MatchMind

Preparing to pilot MatchMind with football clubs.

2026

Climate

The STRATUM era

Milestone

Started STRATUM: Conrad Challenge 2026–27

Led a team of four to tackle aviation's hidden climate impact: contrails.

Research

Pre-registered the science

Locked in our hypotheses and tests before seeing any results, and published every change openly.

Milestone

Advanced to the Innovation Stage 🏆

Conrad Challenge, after the Lean Canvas round (October 2026).

AI

Built a satellite contrail detector

Trained on Google's OpenContrails data and DLR expert scenes; it matches experts at a pixel Dice of 0.64 (a single expert reaches about 0.72).

Research

Checked against the satellite

Raw weather data over India predicts far more contrails than Meteosat-9 confirms; our model ranks contrail risk much better than physics alone (AUROC 0.65–0.83 against 0.42–0.66).

Project

Launched live altitude advice

A live map telling flights over India which altitude would avoid a warming contrail, for planes in the air now and those departing later today.

Outreach

Feedback from contrail researchers

Shared the work with university researchers in the field and got detailed technical feedback.

Next

Conrad Phase 2

Final paper, demo video and live site, due 7 January 2027.

Currently working on

  • Conrad Phase 2: STRATUM's paper, demo video and live site (due 7 January 2027)
  • Preparing a CREST Gold Award submission
  • Sharpening MatchMind's tactical reports with match footage from real coaches