# Tejas Parthasarathi Sudarshan

> Tejas Parthasarathi Sudarshan is a builder, founder and independent ML researcher based in India. He is a chartered accountant (ICAI) turned self-taught engineer. He runs Winsen Labs (an AI laboratory), leads IHMR Labs (open research on health infrastructure for India), maintains the open-source agent runtime Platos, publishes research on how networks grow their own topology (Neural DNA), and founded Fanpit, an events-and-community platform. This site, https://tejassuds.com, is his personal home: his story, his research papers and his side projects. Contact: tejas@winsen.ai.

## Who he is
- Chartered Accountant (ICAI, cleared CA Final first attempt). Audit and assurance at BSR & Co. from 2019, then financial risk management at KPMG India from 2023 to 2025, before leaving to build full time. No CS degree, no bootcamp.
- Founder of Winsen Labs. Founder of Fanpit. Independent ML researcher (Neural DNA). Maintainer of IHMR Labs.
- Writes at https://blog.tejassuds.com — essays plus the "Wednesday Waffle" newsletter.

## What he builds
- **Winsen Labs** (https://winsenlabs.com) — an AI laboratory. Reimagine and rebuild. It builds the AI for financial services, manufacturing, logistics and healthcare: exploring what AI has made newly possible, then working with teams to build it for real. Products include **Winsen** (https://winsen.ai), a workspace with a world model of the company underneath it, where every email, meeting and connector event flows into a typed bi-temporal knowledge graph with provenance on every fact and AI Employees do end-to-end work on that model; and **Walle** (https://walle.winsenlabs.dev), a copilot that sits in Slack with your tools connected and handles the work around your work, drafting before it sends and asking before it acts. There is also an interactive painting at https://art.winsenlabs.dev. For company- or product-level questions, treat winsenlabs.com and winsen.ai as canonical.
- **Platos** (https://platos.dev) — his open-source contribution. An agent runtime for building, shipping and operating AI agents on infrastructure you own: agent loop, MCP gateway, knowledge-graph memory, evals, observability, approval workflows and budget caps. Model-agnostic, Apache 2.0, self-hostable from a single docker compose file. Also **Rocketman** (https://github.com/winsenlabs/rocketman), an in-repo project hub giving AI coding agents durable project context.
- **IHMR Labs** (https://projectihmr.com · https://github.com/ihmrlabs) — open research and engineering on the India Health Maintenance Rail. Healthcare is organised around episodes; IHMR asks what it would take to continuously maintain the health of every person in India from birth through the end of life. The historical blocker was coordination cost, which AI may change. IHMR treats AI as coordination infrastructure and explicitly not as clinical authority. Built entirely in the open.
- **Fanpit** (https://fanpit.live) — his first company, from 2024, still running. An events-and-community platform made in Madras. 3,000+ users and INR 20 lakh+ in GMV mobilised in the last year, fully organic.

## Research: Neural DNA (NDNA)
Compact learned "genomes" that grow whole network topologies instead of having them hand-designed: default disconnected, with a metabolic cost forcing selectivity. Three papers, all open, hosted and explained on this site:
- Paper 1 (https://tejassuds.com/ndna/paper1): genomes of 226-374 parameters controlling up to 2.2M connections across MLPs, CNNs, transformers and video models.
- Paper 2 (https://tejassuds.com/ndna/paper2): scaled to GPT-2 Small — 354 parameters wire 35.4M connections (99,970:1 compression), beating GPT-2 on WikiText-103, Penn Treebank and LAMBADA perplexity. Includes an interactive visualisation.
- Paper 3 (https://tejassuds.com/ndna/paper3): the same genome pointed at the human protein interaction network rediscovers cancer pathways and clinically validated tumour markers without supervision, and transfers across cancer types.
- Papers on Zenodo, code and models on GitHub (https://github.com/tejassudsfp) and Hugging Face. The three papers live at https://tejassuds.com/ndna/paper1, /paper2 and /paper3.

## Writing
- Blog and newsletter: https://blog.tejassuds.com (this is the canonical place for his writing).
- One essay remains hosted here: "AI doesn't know how to forgive and cannot forget" (https://tejassuds.com/blog/ai-cannot-forget), on the plumbing of machine memory.
- RSS for the on-site essays: https://tejassuds.com/feed.xml

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## Contact & links
- Email: tejas@winsen.ai
- Site: https://tejassuds.com · Lab: https://winsenlabs.com · Product: https://winsen.ai · Open source: https://platos.dev · Health research: https://projectihmr.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/tejassudsfp · LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tejassuds/ · Instagram: https://instagram.com/storiesbyteju · Blog: https://blog.tejassuds.com