14Community / Listening / Shared work

Not for people.With people.

The strongest feedback rarely comes from a desk. It comes from the people who will actually use what you build.

Aahwaan Khullar · Selected portfolio
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GroovAbility, in the community.

GroovAbility developed through interviews, feedback, demos and pilot testing with special education centres, NGOs and the SEN department at my school. Special educators and physiotherapists helped shape sensory-friendly exercise protocols.

NGO suggestions led to dance-based exercises and gamification. Across 2 centres, 42 children took part in the pilot, with 85%+ engagement. The app is now used across 5 institutions, 2 of which have formally adopted it.

URJA Special Centre

Interviews, feedback and pilot testing

Sunrise Special Learning School

Interviews, feedback and pilot testing

Armaan Special School

Feedback, demo, testing and full adoption

Shiv Nadar School SEN department

Major feedback, demo and adoption

Kaleidoscope Special NGO

Feedback

Children’s privacy comes first. Photographs from NGO partner sessions are not shared, out of respect for the dignity, confidentiality and privacy of the neurodiverse children involved.

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Technology that opens doors.

Seema Mittal Foundation · 2025–2026

Technology & Digital Initiatives Contributor

I worked on an AI chatbot using IBM Watsonx and Dialogflow to automate information delivery, and collaborated with the Foundation’s tech manager on an accessibility review and website restructure.

The work focused on donations, initiatives and events. I also ran digital literacy workshops for community beneficiaries.

Digital literacyAccessibilityInformation access
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Conversations across generations.

With Syncora, visits to an elderly care home created opportunities to meet residents and caregivers, listen to their experiences and bring those conversations into our design thinking.

Students in conversation with an elderly care-home resident
Listening to residents
A group conversation with older residents and students
Care-home field visit · Syncora
Syncora Wearables
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Making room for other builders.

Innovation Incubators Club · 2024–2025

I founded and led the school’s first entrepreneurship club, growing it to 50 Grade 10 members. In 25+ peer-led sessions, we explored startup fundamentals, pitching, early-stage investing and business innovation.

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Collaboration without borders.

At NYAS Junior Academy, I led a team from India, Russia, Ukraine and the USA in the Fall 2025 Solar Power Innovation Challenge, coordinating work across time zones on an AI-Powered Smart Grid Balancer.

The international team and more work
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An index of curiosities
HomeData science, economics, and building for people.AboutThe questions, interests and education behind the work.WorkProducts, research and ventures built around real questions.GroovAbilityA sensory-friendly fitness app for neurodiverse children.Syncora WearablesA discreet SOS wearable and app for women’s safety.Swachh BharatOne sanitation policy, two questions: stakeholder framing and declared versus measured outcomes.ResearchFinTech cybersecurity, adaptive interventions and policy research.More workCashify, EchoShield, Seema Mittal Foundation, NYAS and Innovation Incubators.ExperienceInternships at EY, Cashify and AIS, and academic programs.AchievementsAcademic honors, research recognition and entrepreneurship awards.WritingElysian and Surprise Success: editing and writing about entrepreneurship.RésuméEducation, honors, research, projects, experience and skills.ContactResearch collaborations, GroovAbility partnerships and conversations.CommunityGroovAbility partnerships, digital literacy and peer-led entrepreneurship.Data-Driven Cybersecurity Risk Assessment in FinTech: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Breach Patterns, Vulnerability Factors and Financial Impact, 2008–2025Accepted · Princeton Journal of Pre-Collegiate ResearchData Breaches and Cybersecurity in Fintech — A Comprehensive AnalysisPublished · IJISRT · April 2025From Accessibility to Prediction: A Data-Driven Framework for Designing Adaptive Digital Interventions for Neurodiverse ChildrenResearch paper · CREST Gold Award 2026GroovAbility: A Visual-Guided Fitness System to Improve Motor Skills in Neurodiverse ChildrenPilot study paper · 2025–2026A Computational Text Analysis of Stakeholder Framing in the Swachh Bharat MissionUnder review · Journal of Emerging Investigators (JEI)Declared vs. Measured: ODF Declarations and NFHS-5 Sanitation Outcomes across 704 Indian DistrictsWorking paper · In developmentCREST Gold AwardSwachh Bharat Mission research: an NLP pipeline with VADER, TF-IDF and LDA on a 55-document corpus, with EY mentorship.CREST Gold AwardGroovAbility: a sensory-friendly fitness app integrating adaptive digital interventions and real-world pilot testing.Accepted · Princeton Journal of Pre-Collegiate ResearchData-Driven Cybersecurity Risk Assessment in FinTech: a mixed-methods analysis of breach patterns, vulnerability factors and financial impact, 2008–2025.Academic Excellence · Grade 9Mathematics Excellence — 91%+ in both terms.Academic Excellence · Grade 10CBSE 96.8% overall; Subject Topper in German.Academic Excellence · Grade 11Mathematics Excellence (A1, 91%); Subject Topper in Physics and German, batch of 100.Grade 12 Predicted Scores · 97%Predicted Class XII aggregate of 97% for the 2027 graduation, CBSE.Semi-Finalist · ARSSDCAsian Regional Space Settlement Design Competition, Bangkok; one of 31 Indian school teams. Finance & Business Development Lead.24th Rank · HUSO IndiaHarvard Undergraduate Science Olympiad; Top 50 in Round 1.HKIMO · Silver & Merit AwardsSilver Award in National Heats (60th percentile+, qualified for International Finals); Merit Award in International Finals (20th percentile+).75% Merit ScholarshipShiv Nadar School, Grades 11–12.SAT · 1550Math 800 · EBRW 750.TYE · Delhi 1st, National 1st, Global Top 6Syncora: Global Top 6 of 400+ teams across 30+ chapters.Semi-Finalist · Cross-Campus ColloquiumEchoShield · Shiv Nadar School.State-level chess playerChess is a longstanding personal interest alongside mathematics.