Beyond the Lab

// venture & impact

Global Winner · $10,000 Award LibertyCon 2025 · Washington, D.C.

DehaadiConnect: Digitizing India's Informal Labor Economy

Principled Business Shark Tank · February 2025

Target Market: 440 Million Daily-Wage Workers USD $10,000 Seed Grant

Crowned global winner at the Principled Business Shark Tank during LibertyCon 2025 in Washington, D.C. DehaadiConnect was built to solve the systemic discovery and wage-transparency failure in India's unorganized labor market. In urban and peri-urban hubs, hundreds of millions of daily-wage laborers (dehaadi workers) rely on physical street-corner labor stands (nakas) with extreme wage volatility, middleman extraction, and zero verifiable work history.

The platform introduces a lightweight, low-friction mobile and SMS coordination protocol enabling direct contractor-to-worker dispatch, fair localized wage benchmarking, and decentralized reputation building—transforming informal work into provable economic identity.

Market Design Financial Inclusion Decentralized Trust

// expeditions & outdoors

Vanshaj Vidyan high-altitude mountain expedition in Ladakh

Himalayan Traverse · Ladakh High Altitude · >13,000 ft

Endurance, Solitude, and Spatial Reset

Outside cleanroom benches and parameter sweeps, high-altitude motorcycle traverses and mountain trekking in Ladakh offer a grounding counterbalance. Negotiating scree slopes, freezing glacial streams, and high passes demands intense physical discipline and acute spatial focus—a complete mental recalibration that reinforces perseverance when troubleshooting finicky hardware or experimental setups.

// public writing & commentary

The Bastiat Scrolls Political Economy & Ideas

Reflections on Spontaneous Order, Institutions, and Technology

Explorations into market coordination, decentralized incentives, and how technological breakthroughs dismantle legacy institutional gatekeeping.

Essay · Published Article

Print & Digital Feature Science & Society

Translational Physics and the Gulf Between Bench and Industry

An analysis of fundamental semiconductor research, lab-to-fab friction, and what emerging domestic electronics ecosystems require to support cutting-edge materials characterization.

Magazine Commentary · Selected Writing

// leadership & global outreach

New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) 5% Acceptance Rate · 2018–2021

Young Researcher · The Junior Academy

Selected into the competitive Junior Academy cohort of the New York Academy of Sciences. Collaborated remotely across international time zones with student scientists and mentors on sponsored global challenges with institutional partners such as AstraZeneca and Chalmers University of Technology, focusing on open-ended STEM problem solving and technology innovation.

Global Collaboration STEM Innovation Sponsored Challenges