Founder, Framelight · G-Fellow · UIUC
Hi, I'm Suhaan.
I'm a sophomore at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, broadly interested in Artificial Intelligence, Research, Cybersecurity, Astronomy, and Entrepreneurship.
I'm always looking to collaborate on research and hear your crazy entrepreneurial ideas, so DM or email me.
About
My story
I immigrated from India at five without a word of English, then moved five times in two years (Chicago, Denver, Miami, and Mississippi) before my family finally settled in Austin. Constantly starting over taught me to adapt fast and stay curious about wherever I land.
These days I'm building my own startup, Framelight, where we guide people to where the best composition in a scene lies so they can take better photos. I source startups as a G-Fellow, and I do research across AI, astronomy, and cybersecurity.
And when I step away from the screen, you'll find me playing the clarinet, playing cricket, or travelling somewhere new.
Things I work with
PythonC++RustTypeScriptJavaSQLPyTorchTensorFlowscikit-learnLangChainFastAPIReact NativeDockerCUDAPostgreSQLLinux
What I build
Ventures & teams
Co-Founder & AI Engineer
Framelight
A startup I co-founded that coaches your photo's composition in real time, before you even press the shutter. I build the computer-vision and ML core that turns a live camera frame into instant, human-feeling aesthetic feedback.
OpenCVPyTorchFastAPIReact NativeNIMA
AI Engineer
CogniSol: AI Forge
On an agentic team of grad and undergrad builders, designing multi-agent systems for an emerging healthcare platform and a multi-tenant backend meant to scale to thousands of teams.
LangGraphLangChainMongoDBMilvusRedisPostgreSQL
Co-Founder · 501(c)(3)
Youth Inquiry Network
A nonprofit I co-founded to hand real research opportunities to high schoolers around the world, with an ML matching layer that pairs curious students with mentors and projects.
NonprofitNLPSemantic SearchMentorship
Venture Fellow · Smart Venture Media
G-Fellows
An invite-only cohort of student VCs and founders from schools like Stanford, Harvard, Penn, and Illinois. I source promising startups, track emerging trends, and nominate founders to pitch top investors, learning directly from partners at a16z, Pear, IVP, and OpenAI. It's the network, the reps, and the credibility to walk into any room in venture and belong.
Venture CapitalSourcingFoundersTrends
Research
Questions worth chasing
Post-Quantum Cryptography @ NCSA
As an undergraduate research fellow, I study how the world is actually migrating to quantum-safe cryptography. I wrote a memory-safe Rust engine that watches live network traffic and classifies cryptographic signals by heuristic to help tools like Zeek see the post-quantum transition as it happens.
Rustlibpcaptls-parserPyTorchNetwork Security
Paper pending submission · IEEEDark Matter via Gravitational Microlensing
First-author astrophysics research using AI to spot gravitational microlensing events far faster than traditional pipelines, opening a new lens on detecting dark matter. Presented at state and national science fairs and symposia.
PythonPyTorchAstrophysicsResearch
Read the paper →Playground
Hackathons & things I've made
Rem
UC Berkeley AI Hackathon 2026
Relive your memories by walking through them. Rem turns your photos and videos into a navigable 3D scene with Gaussian Splatting, so a moment becomes a space you can move inside. I built the video-to-splat pipeline (frame extraction, COLMAP camera poses, gsplat training) and the backend wiring across Redis, Supabase, and Arize.
Gaussian SplattingCOLMAPThree.jsRedis
AQI Forecasting
NASA Space Apps
Air-quality forecasting that predicts the next 24 hours for hundreds of cities and tells you the best time to be outside, replacing hours of manual lookup with ensemble ML.
Next.jsXGBoostFastAPIEnsemble ML
Recognition
A few highlights
Hoveida Foundation Entrepreneurship Prize · CozadHackIllinois 2026 · WinnerTreeHacks 2026 · FinalistUC Berkeley AI Hackathon 2026International Research Olympiad ScholarTexas Science & Engineering Fair · 3rd Place