Rushil Reddy wins a second place in Pennsylvania Science Fairs.

Research in School: Build a Real Research Portfolio
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Research program at Cheenta

Cheenta has outstanding research programs for school students. Here students learn how real research is done—step by step, with close mentor guidance.
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  • Prishaa Shrimali (New Jersy, Grade 10)

    Building a 15-Minute City with Steiner Tree Approximation

    Research in School
    The paper underscores the effectiveness of leveraging graph theory in urban planning and establishes a solid foundation for implementing sustainable, accessible city models that can adapt to the unique needs of various urban landscapes.
    Achieved Second Place in New York Science Fair
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  • Anika Chopra

    Sublinear Local to Global Quasi-geodesic Property

    Frontier Research
    We show that metric spaces that admits bounded combing satisfies
    sublinear local-to-global quasi-geodesic property. In the latter, we show
    that sublinearly t−middle recurrent quasi-geodesics are sublinearly morse quasi-geodesics
    Received Recommendations and Citation remarks from researchers.
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Three Levels of Research at Cheenta

Advised by Leading Researchers in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Machine Learning, Quantam Computing and Econometrics.

School Research

Starts in Grade 9. Both short and long research projects are available.

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Research in University

For students in College and Universities interested in research projects

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Frontier Research

For early career researchers in collaboration with academia and industry.

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Past Papers

The pre-prints showcase the scope of the research projects.

AI for Social-Driven Crypto Pricing

Abhinav, Angad, Jivin

This project analyzes how cryptocurrency news headlines influence Bitcoin price movements. We collected real-time headlines using the CryptoPanic API and evaluated their sentiment with models like FinBERT and CryptoBERT. Using decision models such as Random Forest, we tested how well sentiment predicts price direction. Automated daily data collection was done using Google Apps Script. By varying sentiment and decision models, we aim to identify the best combination for accurate Bitcoin trend prediction.

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AI for VVIPS Driven Asset Pricing

Sritha Uppaluru, Srirudran Y

This study examines how Elon Musk’s tweets influence short-term stock prices using AI-based sentiment analysis. We find that positive tweets often coincide with price increases, while negative tweets link to volatility. Crucially, similar messages from less influential people do not create the same effect, showing that sentiment alone cannot predict market behavior—the sender’s influence also matters.

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AI for Games (Basketball)

Shamik Saraswati, Rishi Arun

This paper discusses the methods and results of our analysis of the factors in determining the winner of the popular online game Basketball Heads. We collected data on 28 players and used decision trees to determine the most important factors. Our analysis shows that ball possession is the most important factor, with an ~80% accuracy in determining player outcomes.

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AI for Taste Detection

Gahan Mukherjee, Nishanth Alampally

This project uses AI and computer vision to estimate fruit sweetness (brix index) from ordinary RGB and multispectral images. We built models that predict grape sugar content from photos and tested whether adding details like variety and harvest time improves accuracy. What makes this work promising is that it can function with simple smartphone images, allowing farmers to assess grape quality directly in the field. We tested five grape varieties—including Itum, Autumn Royal, and Crimson—to study how color and texture relate to sweetness, showing the potential for fast, low-cost fruit quality evaluation without lab equipment.

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Homomorphic Broadcast Encryption

Gurnoor Kaur, Anurag Mudgal

This paper introduces Homomorphic Broadcast Encryption (HBE), a unified framework that combines homomorphic encryption for privacy-preserving computation with broadcast encryption for selective data access. We implement HBE in cloud and IoT settings to enable secure aggregation and controlled result sharing. Tests on a 9-node cloud with 12 users show efficient encrypted computation, fast revocation, and low latency. HBE offers a practical solution for secure collaborative processing in areas like healthcare analytics and financial risk assessment.

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AI for Ocean Trash Detection

Ruthvik Kodury

This project develops an efficient method for automating water quality assessment using satellite images and a lightweight deep learning model. We use a CNN enhanced with Class Activation Maps (CAM) to detect water pollution while keeping the architecture small—three convolutional blocks, global average pooling, and a simple classifier. Trained on datasets of polluted and natural water bodies, the model achieves high accuracy with far fewer parameters than existing solutions, making it a practical and scalable tool for future pollution detection.

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Research Advisors

A group of experts who guide Cheenta’s academic and research programs.

Dr. Ashani Dasgupta

Dr. Ashani Dasgupta

Director, Cheenta Academy

  • PhD in Mathematics from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (USA).
  • Published Researcher at London Mathematical Society’s Journal of Topology
Srijit Mukherjee

Srijit Mukherjee

Director and faculty at Cheenta Academy

  • BStat and MStat from Indian Statistical Institute, Pursuing PhD in Penn State University
Dr. Arka Banerjee

Dr. Arka Banerjee

Visiting Research Faculty

  • Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Auburn University
Raghunath J V

Raghunath J V

Mathematics and Research Faculty

  • B.Tech and M.Tech from IIT Chennai.
  • Math Olympiad Coach at Cheenta. INMO and IMO Trainer.
Shayeef Murshid

Shayeef Murshid

Mathematics and Research Faculty

  • B.Math and M.Math from ISI
  • INMO Merit List
  • Doctoral Scholar at Indian Statistical Institute

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