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Siddharth Seshampally

Oceanography major at Texas A&M ('27), minoring in Statistics and Economics. These days my time goes into red-tide research, leading our student council, and building an AI platform for the ocean.

  • College Station, TX
  • 30.62° N, 96.33° W
  • Open to ideas & conversations — ocean data · AI · ventures

STN 01 · −40 m Who I am

Oceans, numbers, and a bit of business.

They sound unrelated, but every problem I care about comes down to the same thing: making good decisions with imperfect data.

At Texas A&M I spent two years in the Hu Lab dissecting a decade of Karenia brevis red-tide data from the Gulf of Mexico — work that took first place at Student Research Week. I now serve as President of the Student Council of Arts & Sciences — after two years as VP of Finance, where I led a cost-transparency initiative that today covers 18 departments and roughly 19,000 students.

Before college, I spent two years in enterprise business development at AiDOOS in Bangalore, holding 100+ senior-level conversations with CXOs. These days, most of my free hours go into building AI tools — route optimizers, research agents, estimation engines — because the fastest way to understand a technology is to ship something with it.

  • Ocean & climate data
  • Applied AI & agents
  • Optimization
  • Markets & strategy
  • Statistics
  • Entrepreneurship

Currently

  • BuildingAn AI platform for the ocean — turning bloom research and environmental data into forecasts people can act on.
  • ServingPresident, Student Council of Arts & Sciences at Texas A&M.
  • ExploringAgentic AI for real operations — pricing intelligence, maritime paperwork, cost estimation.
  • SeekingAccelerators, incubators, and connections that can help take the ocean platform from prototype to product.

STN 02 · −100 m Projects

Things I've built

Also in the log

  • Meridian AI-assisted port-call documentation prototype — enter ship and voyage data once, auto-generate every arrival and departure document, review AI-flagged inconsistencies.
  • Competitor Pricing Intelligence An agent that discovers competitors, snapshots their pricing pages, diffs every change, and uses an LLM to explain exactly what moved.
  • TAMU Admissions Chatbot Led a team of 8 building an LLM admissions assistant; ~10–12% faster average responses than existing solutions in testing.
  • Bloomcast Early experiment turning my red-tide research into a bloom-forecasting demo.

STN 03 · −160 m Research

A decade of red tides, quantified

As an undergraduate research assistant in the Hu Lab (Feb 2024 – Jan 2026), I led an independent analysis of Karenia brevis blooms — the organism behind Gulf of Mexico red tides — integrating 10+ environmental variables across a 10-year dataset (2008–2017) to assess what actually drives bloom formation.

That meant cleaning and standardizing multi-source oceanographic data, producing 50+ time-series visualizations, and synthesizing the results into recommendations for where bloom monitoring should focus next.

1st

place at Texas A&M Student Research Week, out of roughly 500 participants.

2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 20 15 10 5 chl-a (µg/L) bloom bloom
Fig. 01 — Stylized chlorophyll-a signal, Gulf of Mexico coastal stations, 2008–2017 (illustrative rendering of the study window). Coral markers: K. brevis bloom events.

STN 04 · −220 m Experience & resume

Where I've worked

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  1. Aug 2023 — present

    President — Student Council of Arts & Sciences

    Texas A&M University · College Station, TX

    • Elected President in 2026 after two years as VP of Finance, now leading the 70-member organization.
    • As VP of Finance, oversaw budgeting, fundraising and financial strategy; raised $15,000+ for events and operations.
    • Initiated and led a cost-transparency initiative across 18 departments, 130+ courses and ~19,000 students, heading a 15-member finance committee that requires disclosure of hidden academic expenses.
  2. Feb 2024 — Jan 2026

    Undergraduate Research Assistant — Hu Lab

    Texas A&M University · College Station, TX

    • Led an independent analysis of Karenia brevis blooms integrating 10+ environmental variables over a 10-year Gulf of Mexico dataset.
    • Produced 50+ time-series visualizations from multi-source oceanographic data; won 1st place at Student Research Week (~500 participants).
  3. Mar 2021 — Feb 2023

    Business Development Manager — AiDOOS

    AiDOOS Technologies Pvt Ltd · Bangalore, India

    • Led targeted outbound across enterprise accounts, advancing 30+ qualified opportunities to CEO-level discussions.
    • Held 100+ senior-level conversations to map client pain points; refined messaging and follow-up strategy, improving response rates by ~20%.

Education

Texas A&M University — B.S. Oceanography, minors in Statistics & Economics · Aug 2023 – May 2027. Coursework: systems modeling & data analysis, linear models, linear algebra, micro & macroeconomic theory, Python.

Euroschool Whitefield, Bangalore — Valedictorian: physics, chemistry, math, English and entrepreneurship.

Skills & tools

  • Analysis: time-series analysis, regression, data visualization, scenario analysis
  • Tools: Python (pandas, NumPy), Excel, Git; FastAPI & Next.js from project work
  • Business: market analysis, budgeting, cost analysis, financial modeling (basic)
  • Communication: executive summaries, data storytelling, stakeholder presentations

STN 05 · −280 m Where I'm headed

The long-term goal: sit where data meets capital.

  • 2026

    Take the ocean-AI platform from prototype to something people actually rely on — ideally with the push of an accelerator or incubator behind it.

  • 2027

    Graduate from Texas A&M with a portfolio that proves the combination works: rigorous statistics, domain depth in ocean and climate systems, and the business judgment to make both useful.

  • The long arc

    Work at the intersection of environmental data, AI and markets — climate risk, logistics, resource allocation — and eventually build a company there. NaviAI was the first attempt; it won't be the last.

STN 06 · −320 m Seafloor · contact

You've reached the bottom. Say hello.

The fastest way to reach me is email. I'm open to internship conversations, research collaborations, and hackathon teams.