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  • ThatchedAI founder
  • Cambridge PhD

Tharun Reddy Kandukuri

Biosensors, wearables and applied machine learning

I help teams turn sensor and machine-learning research into devices and software that work outside the lab: biosensor design, wearable prototypes, signal processing and the code around them.

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At a glance

  • Papers

    7 peer-reviewed papers

    146 citations on OpenAlex (as of 15 Oct 2026), in Nano Energy, Sensors, Nano Futures and IEEE journals.

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  • A built device

    Wireless silent-speech headphones

    Textile EMG sensors built into headphones to read silent speech, published in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2025).

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  • ThatchedAI

    Research-to-product consultancy

    Founded in 2024 to help teams take sensor, machine-learning and hardware ideas from the lab to a working product.

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Selected publications

7 peer-reviewed papers on wearable sensors, biosensing and energy harvesting.

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  1. Roadmap on printable electronic materials for next-generation sensors

    Nano Futures, 2024

    doi:10.1088/2399-1984/ad36ff (opens in a new tab)Cited by 61 (OpenAlex, as of 15 Oct 2026)

  2. Machine Learning Methods for Automatic Silent Speech Recognition Using a Wearable Graphene Strain Gauge Sensor

    Dafydd Ravenscroft, Ioannis Prattis, Tharun Kandukuri, Yarjan Abdul Samad, Giorgio Mallia, Luigi G. Occhipinti

    Sensors, 2021

    doi:10.3390/s22010299 (opens in a new tab)Cited by 32 (OpenAlex, as of 15 Oct 2026)

  3. Flexible thin-film thermoelectric generators for human skin-heat harvesting: A numerical study

    Milad Jabri, Saeed Masoumi, Tharun Reddy Kandukuri, Luigi Giuseppe Occhipinti

    Nano Energy, 2024

    doi:10.1016/j.nanoen.2024.110001 (opens in a new tab)Cited by 28 (OpenAlex, as of 15 Oct 2026)

All 7 publications

Software projects

Products I have designed and built outside the lab.

  • Running

    NewsandAI Pipeline

    Automated news-to-Instagram publishing

    Turns news items into ready-to-post Instagram content with GPT-4 text and DALL-E 3 images, scheduled through GitHub Actions.

    • Python
    • GPT-4
    • DALL-E 3
    • GitHub Actions
    • Instagram API
    Private: code on request

  • Deployed

    SecureCall

    Peer-to-peer video calling

    Privacy-first video calls over peer-to-peer WebRTC with no call storage on a server. Installable as a Progressive Web App.

    • WebRTC
    • JavaScript
    • Firebase
    • PWA
    Private: code on requestLive demo(opens in a new tab)

  • Prototype

    FinSol Blockchain

    Custom blockchain, token and wallet

    An end-to-end cryptocurrency stack: a Cosmos SDK chain, the FINSOL token and a PWA wallet. Built as a learning platform for token design.

    • Cosmos SDK
    • Go
    • React PWA
    • Docker
    • CometBFT
    Private: code on request

  • In development

    KrushiSetu PWA

    Farmer-to-buyer marketplace

    Connects farmers directly with wholesale buyers, with geo-tagged crop photos, market prices and transaction tracking.

    • React 18
    • Firebase
    • Firestore
    • PWA
    • Geolocation
    Private: code on request

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