The Pattern Institute

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.

Essential GI and WiSE Certification function

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.