I study how living systems hold themselves together. Scroll, and the same question follows you from a single cell out to the edge of the universe.
Founder and Chief Product Architect, NeuraEase · Emergent Ventures grantee · Hyderabad
10−5 m · A cell
One egg cell becomes a body of trillions, and one day disperses again. It is the first place I see my question: how does structure form, hold and dissolve?
10−1 m · A brain
The brain does not just receive signals. It predicts them, and decides how far to believe what arrives.
100 m · A body
Heartbeat, breath, gut. The body talks to the brain all day, mostly below awareness. This is where most of my research sits.
100 m · Two people
Two nervous systems in a room are rarely independent. Heart rates sync during conversation, and a parent's calm reaches a child.
104 m · A city
New road networks fascinate me: how they route flow and organise themselves over time. A curiosity for now, not a research claim.
1026 m · The universe
If the universe runs toward entropy, organised things like us are strange. Given one straight answer, I would ask it what the world is, and what the universe is.
10−5 m
A cell
Every scale on the way out asked the same thing
By full range I mean how wide a span of demands a system can handle before it breaks down.
These questions would still matter if NeuraEase closed tomorrow. NeuraEase is one attempt to answer them, not the reason they exist.
The core question, narrowed until data can answer it. Most of my research sits at the body.
10−5 m
A cell
Open questions I keep returning to
10−1 m
A brain
How do individuals differ in how much the brain trusts body signals versus its own predictions?
Framework. Predictive processing and precision-weighting.
Why I care. My position is that distress comes from badly tuned trust in body signals, not from prediction error itself.
Which contemplative and behavioural practices change autonomic regulation, and by what mechanism?
Framework. Measured studies only, such as breathing rate and heart rate variability research.
Why I care. I read Vedic, Sufi and Buddhist traditions for mechanism, and I want to architect how my own mind works.
Open questions I keep returning to
Open in science. Listed, not claimed.
100 m
A body
What is the information capacity of interoceptive channels?
Framework. Shannon information theory: channel capacity, the most information a signal path can carry reliably.
Why I care. Electronics engineering applied to physiology. Few people come at interoception, the sensing of heartbeat, breath and gut, from signal theory.
What is the relative role of homeostasis and allostasis in daily regulation?
Framework. Homeostasis corrects after a change. Allostasis adjusts ahead of a predicted demand (Sterling).
Why I care. If regulation is mostly anticipatory, support should change the predictions, not only calm the reaction.
Are there transdiagnostic autonomic signatures across autism, ADHD, BPD, OCD and burnout?
Framework. NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): studying mental health by underlying systems rather than diagnoses.
Why I care. This is the subject of my first paper, on computational signatures in neurodivergent populations.
100 m
Two people
How do coupled nervous systems influence each other's state?
Framework. Co-regulation: two systems whose activity affects each other, like heart rates that sync during conversation.
Why I care. Parents and children, partners, teams. Most regulation research studies people alone.
104 m
A city
Open questions I keep returning to
1026 m
The universe
Open questions I keep returning to
Open in science. Listed, not claimed.
I learn by building. Theory tends to follow construction for me, so the product came before the papers.
Founder and Chief Product Architect
A neurotechnology company that builds tools to improve neurodivergent people's daily lives. I spent a year and a half in R&D before opening it to outside testers. Along the way I built the working platform, a five-state model and an admin dashboard.
Visit NeuraEaseFramework in development
A framework that joins the Free Energy Principle, information theory and physiology to describe how a body regulates itself.
Paper in preparation
Asks whether autism, ADHD, BPD, OCD and burnout share autonomic signatures underneath their diagnostic labels.
Grantee
Supported by Emergent Ventures for this work.
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An electronics engineer who ended up studying the nervous system, and building for it. I grew up in rural India and now live in Hyderabad.
I learn by building. At NeuraEase that meant a working platform and a model of nervous system states before a single paper. Now I'm writing the theory down, one question at a time.
Ask me what I would build if nobody paid me, and the honest answer is a perfect human, or being. Basically god.
I hold one direction for years. NeuraEase had a year and a half of R&D before anyone outside tested it.
Theory follows construction for me. The working platform came before the papers.
Autonomic Computation joins the Free Energy Principle, information theory and physiology.
I read Friston and Shannon directly, and I check claims against logic and evidence before I repeat them.
I use the Free Energy Principle while holding that it is hard to falsify. I read old traditions as systems to test, not as proof.
I decide, and I un-decide when the data changes.
Solitude, nature and making things with my hands. Most of what restores me happens before the day starts.
Acrylic landscapes with improvised technique.
A periodised programme at home, currently in a deadlift block.
Arranging rooms and designing warm lighting. Certain light shades and layouts excite me.
New road networks, and how they route flow and organise themselves.
Reading cosmology and the physics of information, for the same regulation question at a larger scale.
Why time has a direction, and how organised things form while disorder increases.
What information is physically, where it lives, and what it costs to erase a bit.
The hard problem, and what ancient and modern accounts each get right about it.
Vedic, Sufi and Buddhist texts, read for how the practices work in the body rather than what they ask you to believe.
Observing how people around me behave, and testing psychology frameworks against what I see.
I'd like to hear from researchers working on interoception, predictive processing and autonomic regulation, and from anyone who sees a flaw in my reasoning.
Working with autistic or ADHD adults clinically? I also want to hear from you.
Not looking for vendor pitches or agency services.