The Pattern Institute

04/12/2025

Congratulations to WiSE Vednarayan Varma (TeensGI 2022-23) who graduated from the University of Edinburgh on 27th November, completing his 𝐌.𝐒𝐜. 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐝, 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. University of Edinburgh, situated in Scotland is a highly prestigious institution part of the Russell group and remains to be one of the oldest universities in the English-speaking world.

Vednarayan took his undergraduate degree from Krea University, Sri City, Andhra Pradesh with a BSc in Psychology and a minor in Philosophy.

He is also currently doing another 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬, and plans to enroll for a PhD soon.

Congratulations are also due to the proud parents Jaykrishnan and Reshmy.

The Pattern Institute wishes Ved the very best!

12/10/2025

The VijnAnVikAs and The Pattern Institute once again congratulates WiSE Vivian Sainath Rajesh on entering his first job as a Service Engineer with Technogym, an Italian world-leading manufacturer of sports and leisure equipment based in Cesena, Italy. He will be joining their technical team at Jumeirah, Dubai on 13th October 2025. Technogym has been the exclusive and official supplier for the athletes' training centers in the last eight editions of the Olympic Games as well as F1. You will recollect that Sainath graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the VIT, Vellore, India in the month of August 2025.

24/09/2025

Twelve MBA students from the Kochi Business School underwent the Advanced Self-Analytics program at The Pattern Institute's Prof. MK Menon Center for Pattern Intelligence, located at Shilpi Heritage, Kalikotta Road, Trippunithura.

It was great interacting with these twelve youth who will soon be entering the competitive business world. Detailed discussions and reflections happened on the concept of FOLLOWERSHIP and also on PURPOSE to IMPACT. The fundamental strategies were connected with the eternal attitudinal-values (BHAVAS) of Cooperation (YAJNA), Sacrifice (THYAGA), Dedication (SAMARPANA), and Abundance (PRASADHA). The team deliberated on several personal renewal strategies focused on iFOCUS (Initiative, Followership, Ownership, Collaboration, Understanding, (small-l) Leadership) that emphasised the integration of fundamental human aptitudes rooted in Knowledge-K.Deficits-Projection (Sattva-Tamas-Rajas) and Attitudes. These attitudes, of creativity-productivity-enrichment-skills, when integrated in one's work result in stardom.

The participants were also exposed to the basics of taking care of the brain with special focus on cognitive development. Learning, perfecting, and retraining is aided by the fundamental brain processes of neuroplasticity composed of synaptic connections, myelination, and neurogenesis. The role of epigenetics was also discussed.

Each particpant started to work on a vision-board that capture the essence of the purpose-to-impact plan that they are developing during the next couple of weeks. This is hoped to provide inspiration in the long- and short-term pursuits of each.

Ms. Lakshmi Sreekumar (HR Secialist), Mr. Siddharth Menon (ETH Zurich - Computing) , and Ms. Aditi Namboodiri (Researcher-Gothic literature) provided class-room support and Mr. Ramachandra Menon (Impressario), and Mr. Krishnakumar Namboodiri (CA) shared experiences.

The Pattern Institute wishes the KBS students a very bright career as entrepreneurs and executives of the business world.

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Narayanan Raman Menon
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Krishna Kumar Namboodiri

16/08/2025

The Pattern Institute and VijnAnVikAs congratulates WiSE Vivian Siddharth Menon (Class of 2015) who just completed all the requirements for the Graduate (MS) degree in Computer Science, majoring in Visual & Interactive Computing, with a minor in Theoretical Computer Science, from the renowned ETH-Zurich (Federal Institute of Technology- Zurich), Switzerland. Computer Graphics and Computational Geometry were his passions.

Siddharth is now moving to London, UK, to join PETEX (PE Limited) who are specialists in Engineering and Machine Learning Software and Platforms, as Research and Development Engineer, to develop engineering and structural geology software systems.

Siddharth attended VijnAnVikAs classes right from age 5 till he left school in 2015 after Class XII CBSE, to enter into higher studies at University of California, Riverside, for his BS degree in Computer Science. He joined ESRI Inc., at Redlands, CA, USA after an internship with them during the final year and worked as a Solutions Engineer for exactly three years. He moved to ETH, Zurich, for his masters in 2022. He also worked part-time with ESRI R&D center in Zurich where he worked on some aspects of graphics, vision, mixed reality, and 3D cartography technologies.

He will be joining PETEX who are now headquartered at Guildford, Surrey, England, southwest of London, on October 13, 2025 - moving from geographic modelling to geological modelling!

The Pattern Institute wishes Siddharth all the very best in his budding career, and life.

07/07/2025

The Pattern Institute is happy to announce that this year's WiSE Vivian designate Gaurav Manoj, who just graduated out of high school from the GEMS Founders School, Al Mizhar, Dubai, will be joining the University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest (UVMB), Hungary, for their Integrated Masters Programme.

Gaurav Manoj has been a passionate animal lover and we have seen him take care of even stray animals (cats etc.) with care and love. I am sure he will be enter into studies and profession with such motivations powering him.

Gaurav Manoj attended the VV classes for over 8 years and have been an active student taking part in all the classes as well as the activities. He is the lone WiSE designate from this year of VV classes.

The Pattern Institute congratulates Gaurav Manoj and wishes him the very best in his higher education. Congratulations to the proud parents, Manoj Vasukuttan and Maya Panicker, as well has to his elder brother WiSE Pranav Manoj (2021).

29/01/2025

Culture of Knowledge and Innovation

There was great amount of emphasis on culture of knowledge and innovation in the Indic period. Our region experimented with several methods of knowledge assimilation and transmission, intuitive methods of connecting with knowledge, as well as methods for retention, delivery, and applications.

Somewhere along the way we lost that inspiration. Without going into the reasons for such a decay, let us now be more focussed on how to bring back the glory of intellectual capital. There is no point in talking about the glories of the past or regrets, nor there is anything to be achieved in merely being anxious and hopeless of our future. There is also no point in being agitated, lethargic, and procrastinating in the current frame of things. What we need is a mindful engagement in the process of establishing an order of knowledge, thought processes, and strategic translation of the knowledge to tangible benefits for mankind and universe.

INNOVATION implies that which:
(uthbhavakara) = CREATES, STARTS A BEGINNING
(uthkarshakara) = ENRICHES, BRINGS IN PROSPERITY
(bhUtha-bhAvodhbhavakara) = BENEFITS, IN TANGIBLE WAYS
(visarga) = EXPURGATES, TO ELEVATE

This Indic age wisdom on innovation is an established process of research and development in the modern age too. A culture of knowledge and innovation implies getting involved in inquiry, ideation, incubation, and institutionalization of concepts that create a beginning. It must be an idea that enriches as many ‘others’ as possible by bringing in tangible benefits. The ideas and concepts that translate to tangible things must also be able to expurgate lower things to take us up forward and upward.

Economically advanced nations become so only through this process of knowledge and innovation. But it is also seen that mankind adopts the same process of innovation for negative and selfish goals. Selfish interests tend to enrich through destruction, directing benefits only to a select few, and often purging lofty ideals.

02/01/2025

Essential GI and WiSE Certification function

02/01/2025

The 17th WiSE certification function...for the ViVians (VijnanVikAs class students) who passed Class XII the last acedemic year and are leaving the VV classes...was held by The Pattern Institute on January 01, 2025. The venue was the Lavender Hotel, Al Nahda, Dubai. Current students and their families attended. Dr. P Mohanan (Physician DOH) gave away the WiSE certifcates to the current batch, as well as delivered the convocation talk. Er. Vinod, and Er. Sandhya Vinod (Entreprenuers) gave the certificates for our students from earlier batches (2015, 2019) who were not available at those times, and Sandhya Vinod felicitated the students.

WiSE ViVian Hari Krishnan (Scientist Engineer VSSC, ISRO), and WiSE Vivian Shyam Menon (Masters Engineering student at University of Toronto, Canada) gave inspiring speeches were they shared their experiences.

The function, attended by 90+ VV family members, wrapped up with a sumptuous lunch.

Wishing all WiSE Vivians the very best in their careers and life, and every one a great year in 2025....

Satish.

05/11/2024

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gks-infotech-private-limited_empowerment-innovation-cybersecurity-activity-7259451834862305283-t810?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

GKS INFOTECH PRIVATE LIMITED is dedicated to fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation, empowering our employees to grow and excel. Recently…

02/11/2024

A two day Self-Analytics Workshop was held at thePi (The Pattern Institute) for selected young professionals of the GKS Infotech.

Their MD Sri. Shiju Balan also participated making it a worthwhile two-days of Cogitation Studios at thePi.

03/10/2024

01/08/2024

https://www.esri.com/en-us/disaster-response/disasters/flooding

Here is a link showing science & technology that helps visualize flood maps as well as help plan reponses. This technology also helps in anticipating flooding areas through hydrological modeling (among many other things).

The base maps are provided by detailed satellite imagery (we can select that) which is integrated onto the maps through a image processing and server technology that was developed by our team in the Sharjah UAE and Redlands USA. ArcGIS is used worldwide by millions of GIS professionals and planners. India Government also uses this technology. I am sure Kerala also has access to this technology.

It is just a question of understanding the science behind the catastrophies that we are witnessing quite regularly, and utilising these technologies effectively and efficiently. It requires will and the determination to succeed and not just the greed to exploit and aggrandize for selfish gains. 'Nature' is too powerful, but it can be tamed through 'thinking' and 'Science'. Only Human kind is blessed with these powers. Let us remember that. Let our children and youth be guided and exposed to such, as these thoughts.

When disaster strikes, we need volunteers and philanthopists to step in and help the unfortunate. Indeed, there is no doubt about that. Kerala has shown time and again, that despite political gimmicry, there are selfless people who step out and brave the challenges to help.

BUT can we as a society help our children and youth to start thinking proactively and step out to make a difference. Only then can our state (and nation) play its role in making us a developed country. A generational change of such 'thinking science', 'shaping minds', and 'working productively' is needed to make it happen. The Pattern Institute aims to so just that!

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