Siddharth Seshampally
STN 01 · −40 m Who I am
Oceanography major at Texas A&M ('27), minoring in Statistics and Economics. My time goes into Gulf of Mexico research — from red-tide data to running a CTD at sea — leading our student council, and building an AI platform for the ocean.
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: bench work on deep-sea microbes that fed a bioRxiv preprint, and a decade of Port Aransas Karenia brevis red-tide data that I analyzed in R and presented at Student Research Week, where it won the Earth and Physical Sciences award. In May 2026 I ran the CTD on a four-day research cruise. I now serve as President of the Student Council of Arts & Sciences — a 70-member council for 18 departments that I helped grow from one event a year to six and into a 501(c)(3).
Every summer since 2022 I have done enterprise business development at AiDOOS in Bangalore — 100+ senior-level conversations with CXOs. The rest of my free hours go into building AI tools — voyage planners, procurement guardrails for AI agents, research knowledge graphs — because the fastest way to understand a technology is to ship something with it.
- Ocean & climate data
- Microbial ecology
- 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 — governed procurement, maritime paperwork, research workflows.
- SeekingAccelerators, incubators, and connections that can help take the ocean platform from prototype to product.