i'll be at CVPR 2025; shoot me an email if you'd like to meet!

Dallas, USA

i'm trisanth

17 yo full-stack developer, researcher, and entrepreneur

some things i've done

built & organically scaled a web proxy company to 850k mau & $5k mrr (ad rev) at 13

published 10+ papers in top CS conferences (eg. CVPR, DSN, ICME, Interspeech, IEEE ICIP, IEEE VTC)

started an edtech platform funded by JainVC, acquisition offer by YC backed startup

created a SOTA web filter for k-12 schools in collaboration with researchers from NYU, FriscoISD, Capital One, and Boeing (paper coming soon)

leading a nonprofit research lab with 70+ researchers, achieving 7+ acceptances at top-tier conferences

My Story:

at 12, i started creating programming tutorials on youtube and teaching python classes. by 13, i had built and scaled a web proxy company to 850k users.

my journey has taken me through various roles - from research assistant at unt working on vr technology, to founding multiple startups in edtech, ai, and infrastructure. each experience has shaped my approach to building and problem-solving.

these days, i'm focused on applied ml research at cyrionlabs, privacy & security research at nyu, and making technology more accessible through my work at computers for the blind. but i'm always on the lookout for the next big thing to build in the startup space

Some things i'm working on:

swe at givefront (yc w24)(2025-present)[active]

working closely with the CEO to singlehandedly develop a new platform under Givefront targeted at startups.

research intern at nyu mlab(2025-present)[active]

co-authoring a paper on content filtering in K-12 schools with a focus on privacy; leading a paper on a novel web-proxy detection framework in K-12 schools; collaborating with University of Chicago, Princeton, Yorktown, Frisco ISD, Boeing, Capital One, and Colgate

president at cyrionlabs(2025--present)[active]

nonprofit research lab dedicated to ethical, high-impact machine learning research & services; fundraised and donated $10k worth of computers & related electronics to local schools, small businesses, and libraries; offering pro-bono consulting & development services to businesses all over America with over 60+ signed clients currently; secured monetary funding from the Texas Workforce Commission, SMU, Blackridge Elm Capital, and Beal Bank to sustain research and outreach initiatives; manage and fund a team of 70+ researchers and volunteers across multiple labs, achieving 7+ acceptances (with 6 pending) at top-tier conferences including IEEE ICIP, IEEE VTC, ACM Multimedia, CVPR, Interspeech, and DSN-W; built partnerships with researchers from leading institutions (CMU, Cornell, UCSD, UW, NYU, UNT) and community nonprofits, expanding both academic collaboration and societal impact

i make things; alot of them

My previous ventures:

(2024-present)refurbishing technician at cftb[active]

refurbishing computers for visually impaired individuals; providing them with affordable technology to enhance their daily lives and accessibility

(2025-2025)founder at extracurriculars.com[completed]

edtech platform for k-12 students to discover and join extracurricular activities, clubs, and competitions; acquisition offer by YC backed startup, funded by JainVC

(2024-2025)lead developer at sciencefair.io[completed]

hired as a contract developer originally, was asked to take over after CTO left to polish the platform before acquisition; recently sold for 7 figures to a large education company

(2024-2025)founder at perfect sat[completed]

free platform for 24/7 sat prep; features practice tests, personalized study plans, and progress tracking; supercharged with AI

(2024-2024)founder at xenos node[completed]

freemium hosting services; featuring game servers, vps and dedicated servers for reasonable prices with a focus on performance and reliability

(2024-2024)founder at vezi[completed]

ai inference for users at the enterprise scale at 1/10th of the cost and 10x the speed

(2023-2023)research intern at unt[completed]

collaborated with UNT's Mixed Realities Lab on research and development of immersive AR/VR applications

(2021-2023)founder & lead developer at nova[completed]

developed an open-source privacy tool suite (VPN, DNS, email, web-proxy) with 850K monthly active users; integrated encryption and multi-factor authentication in collaboration with cybersecurity experts; generated $5K+ in monthly ad revenue; managed a distributed server cluster across 6 countries and led a 10-developer team

created programming videos on youtube and conducted 30+ person classes on python at 12

Publications:

Democracy-in-Silico: Institutional Design as Alignment in AI-Governed Polities
Trisanth Srinivasan, Santosh Patapati
.(Under Review)
Vision-Language Fusion for Real-Time Autonomous Driving: Goal-Centered Cross-Attention of Camera, HD-Map, & Waypoints
Santosh Patapati, Trisanth Srinivasan, Murari Ambati
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2025(Accepted)
Early Goal-Guided Multi-Scale Fusion for Real-Time Vision-Language Driving
Santosh Patapati, Trisanth Srinivasan
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2025(Accepted)
A Framework for ECA-Based Psychotherapy
Santosh Patapati, Trisanth Srinivasan, Himani Musku, Amith Adiraju
ACM Multimedia 2025 Demo Track(Accepted)
CLIP-MG: Guiding Semantic Attention with Skeletal Pose Features and RGB Data for Micro-Gesture Recognition on the iMiGUE Dataset
Santosh Patapati, Trisanth Srinivasan, Amith Adiraju
IJCAI, Workshop for Human Behavior Analysis for Emotion Understanding 2025(Accepted)
GenECA: A General-Purpose Framework for Real-Time Adaptive Multimodal Embodied Conversational Agents
Santosh Patapati, Trisanth Srinivasan, Murari Ambati
Interspeech 2025 Show & Tell Track(Accepted)
Towards Leveraging Semantic Web Technologies for Automated UI Element Annotation
Trisanth Srinivasan
8th IEEE International Conference on Inventive Computation Technologies (ICICT) 2025(Accepted)
DURA-CPS: Multi-Role Orchestration System for Dependability Assurance of AI-Enhanced Cyber-Physical Systems
Trisanth Srinivasan, Santosh Patapati, Himani Musku, Idhant Gode, Aditya Arora, Samvit Bhattacharya, Abubakr Nazriev, Sanika Hirave, Zaryab Kanjiani, Srinjoy Ghose
55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W) 2025(Accepted)
PhysNav-DG: A Novel Adaptive Framework for Robust VLM-Sensor Fusion in Navigation Applications
Trisanth Srinivasan, Santosh Patapati
IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) 2025(Accepted)
WebNav: An Intelligent Agent for Voice-Controlled Web Navigation
Trisanth Srinivasan, Santosh Patapati
arXiv Preprint(Preprint)

Skills:

Languages:
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Java
HTML/CSS
Frameworks & Libraries:
Django
React
Next.js
FastAPI
Flask
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Tools:
Redis
OpenCV
NumPy
Pandas
Postgres
Jupyter

Connect:

always excited to chat about technology, collaboration opportunities, or just to connect with fellow builders. drop me a line and let's see what we can create together.

hello@trisanth.com

i try to respond to all emails within 48 hours. if you don't hear back, feel free to follow up — sometimes things get lost in the inbox. i appreciate your patience!