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I bring together business, research and policy by working at the edge of what energy systems can become, developing next-generation energy-storage technology synthesised from industrial waste, rare-earth-free and pushing new limits, through DevAnanta R&D Private Limited, a deep-tech startup I founded with collaborators and supporters spanning NUS, IITKanpur, IIT Madras, IITDharwad, ARCI, and the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre, Manchester. My background runs through Indian Space Research Organisation and Mercedes-Benz R&D India. My horizon is a world where clean energy is not a privilege.
DevAnanta has been recognised as a winner at different platforms including "Our Power, Our Planet" by Earthday & Envision, ELEVATE 2025 by Govt. of Karnataka, VBYLD by Govt. of India and acknowledgements that reflect not just technological ambition but the institutional confidence placed in indigenous deep-tech as a serious answer to climate challenges. Alongside published IEEE research and recognition from Earth Day initiatives, BRICS, government bodies, and Mercedes-Benz, this work sits at the convergence of rigorous science and real-world relevance.
That conviction extends beyond the laboratory. At DevAnanta, gender parity is not policy on paper, it is the operating reality of our team, with equal representation of men and women across technical and leadership roles. I mentor and advocate for women in STEM because I have seen, firsthand, what exclusion costs, in talent, in perspective, and in the quality of solutions we build for a world that women disproportionately bear the consequences of.
That firsthand understanding came, in part, from walking. A 180+ km journey across more than 20 villages and multiple cities brought me into direct conversation with communities often absent from technology design rooms, particularly women. Those conversations were not about energy alone. They were about safety, about economic agency, about what it means to have a voice in decisions that shape your environment. What I carried back was not just data. It was a clearer sense of what technology must actually solve, and for whom.