I like understanding how things work.

From the machinery underneath a system to the people who need it to work well.

Portrait of Varun Aditya

Selected work

All projects
  • Nova AI

    What would it take for a conversation with an AI to still make sense a year later?

    A companion that keeps one long conversation going, remembers what matters about you and runs entirely on your own machine.

    1. Scan
    2. Perceive
    3. Recall
    4. Understand
    5. Draft
    6. Guard
    7. Deliver
    8. Remember

    Local companion with long-term memory

  • PHIRE

    Can a local health assistant show where each part of its answer came from, instead of asking you to trust a confident-sounding paragraph?

    A health assistant that runs on your own machine and traces every claim it makes to the record behind it.

    1. Question
    2. Evidence
    3. Draft
    4. Claims
    5. Verification

    Local health assistant

  • NexaKernel

    What does a kernel look like when every core subsystem gets the data structure that actually suits it?

    An x86 operating system kernel written from scratch, with a different data structure behind each core subsystem.

    1. Boot
    2. Memory
    3. Interrupts
    4. Drivers
    5. Scheduler

    Operating system kernel

  • NyayaSetu

    What would it take for a legal document to explain itself to the person holding it, in their own language?

    Photograph a legal document and get it back in plain English, Kannada or Hindi, with the risky clauses flagged and the statute cited.

    1. Photo
    2. OCR
    3. Simplify
    4. Flag risks
    5. Translate

    Android app and AI backend

    IEEE YESIST12 2026 · Selected for the India preliminary round

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