The Pattern Institute

The Pattern Institute wishes WiSE ViVian Adarsh the very best in his new role as Business analyst at Amana group UAE, at Dubai.

WiSE Vivian Adarsh is a Mechanical Engineer, who belongs to the 2014 class of ViVians. After graduating with his Engineering degree, he worked with M/s Al Nasr Contracting Co. LLC, as Projects Control Engineer till last year. In 2023 April - he joined Shobha Constructions as a Business Excellence Engineer managing the internal KPI system of the company. He worked there for over 3 years.

Adarsh assumed responsibilities as a Business analyst at Amana group in July 2026. He is working with the innovation department that will be spearheading the technology implementation and digital construction transformation.

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The Pattern Institute Congratulates WiSE Vivian Nidhil C Prakash (VV class of 2018) who has bagged the UNESCO MGIEP Fellowship on Leadership for Peace and Sustainability at the Kyung Hee University, South Korea - 2026. The Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP), in New Delhi, India, was established with the support of the Government of India and is an integral part of UNESCO.

Nidhil belongs to 2018 class of VijnAnviKas. He completed his Class XII in 2018 from the The Emirates National School Sharjah, thereafter obtained his Bachelors degree (BA) in History, Economics, and Political Science from the Kristu Jayanti deemed University in 2021. He later pursued his postgraduate degree (MA) from the Jamia Milia Islamia at New Delhi (2024-26) where he majored in Conflict Analysis and Peace Building, and obtained his degree in 2026.

From June 2025 he has also been working as a UPSC Civil Service faculty for Polity and Public Administration, as well as did an internship (2024) at the Center for Equity Studies at New Delhi.

Congratulations to WiSE Nidhil C Prakash and his proud parents, and best wishes for an impactful career and life.

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Congratulations to ViVian Hariharan Ramesh who received his Engineering degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Dubai. He graduated with Magna cm laude in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Psychology. Additionally, he also received the Research Scholar Award for the year 2026 from RIT (Rochester, New York).

His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum awarded the degree during commencement last week.

Hariharan Ramesh was a student of VijnanVikas classes during his childhood for several years till higher secondary days. He was a very dynamic and articulate participant of the class contributing to discussions, quizzes, and cultural shows.

The Pattern Institute congratulates Hari as well as his parents, Ramesh and Sathya, and young brother Shiva, and wish him well in his future academics, career, and life.

AI – THE CHOICE AND THE WORK AHEAD FOR YOUTH

AI is a capability that fundamentally changes the way we understand and manage our world, industries, and lives in general. It helps to process information at a scale and speed unimaginable even a few years ago. It is helping us with reasoning and analytic capabilities that can accelerate progress in medicine, natural resource management, planning, and many other complex decision-making. And, with several tools, it is becoming accessible to everyone in a democratic manner.

AI AND HUMAN COGNITION

What is really important is to understand how AI is converging with the way human cognition has evolved and how inventions and innovations have helped shape the way we live in this world. It is critical that we understand how AI is opening entirely new ways to see, analyse, and understand our world. It is equally important to see how the future of AI need to be shaped.

Intelligence is a product of our ability to be involved in conscious intellectual activity, such as thinking, reasoning, and remembering. When AI is integrated into our cognitive processes, the result is a powerful engine for taking smarter decisions. It gives us the ability to integrate multiple perspectives, domains of expertise, and evaluate options that support a more efficient and sustainable decision-making. Data in Emergencies Information System (DIEM) is an example. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization is tracking the impact using DIEM—a system that blends AI with geographic (location) intelligence to monitor food security across 27 countries in near real time.

AI AND ANALOGICAL THINKING

Having the capability to process data is not the same as having knowledge. This is where our cognitive processes come in. There are multiple ways of looking at historical information (past), what is happening around us (present), and how things will shape up (future). The novel ways in which we can correlate seemingly disparate or incongruent situations, strategies, or solutions is a strength that would be hard to replace. This power of analogical thinking is at the core of cognitive processes, that is greatly aided by the efficiency and speed with which AI can integrate and help us handle multiple sources of data. The scale of the relevant data that can be brought together at our fingertips, literally and figuratively, and the speed with which it is made available is helped by AI.

It is the individual who has to make sure that what is correlated automatically (AI) is blended with the inherent nature of heuristics, curiosity, and purpose (human). This is what will shape the way human insight and the craft evolve, as well as how AI of the future will be meaningful and relevant. Thus, the future AI systems will help surface insight in an increasingly democratised way. But it is human judgment that will help make it more relevant and evolved. Otherwise, stagnation will be fast to catch up!

COMPETENCIES FOR THE AI WORLD

The people who thrive will be those who are able to bring in heuristics, make creative connections, visualize multiple perspectives, ask the right questions to make evaluations, and possess all of craft, passion, and purpose.

These are not new skills and capabilities. They’re the competencies of good scientists, planners, and leaders. AI simply makes them more essential—and more widely necessary.

FORESIGHT AND WILLINGNESS

The risk is clear.

Should we depend only on tools to do the thinking and just optimise the output and end up as less responsible? or
Should we develop our understanding and powers of cognition to strengthen human judgment?

This is a choice.

The future is within reach. Only, it requires intention—and the foresight and willingness to develop the competencies that make us responsible players in an increasingly intelligent world.
This is the work ahead.

Foresight and willingness are two inherent powers that we possess – the human capacity to develop prescience through practice, experience, and knowledge, and fierce zeal to align intention with effort, like that of a mighty lion!

This may be some of the most meaningful work of our time!

The Pattern Institute is proud to announce the hooding of WiSE Vivian Karthik at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA, where he was formally invested with the academic hood, signifying his successful completion of advanced studies leading to a doctoral degree. The ceremony was held yesterday 11 AM EST.

He did is undergraduate degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Amrutha School of Engineering, Coimbatore, India. Thereafter he worked with Ericsson India at Bangalore from 2013 to 2018 as Software and Networks Engineer. He then moved to the USA and completed his graduate degree in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina, at Charlotte. He has now obtained his Ph D. degree from the same university, in the area of Interactive visualization tools for large-scale single-cell genomics data. His specific areas of interest include Data Visualization, Visual Analytics and Data Science. Prof. Dr. Ann E. Loraine was his advisor.

Karthik Raveendran belongs to the 2009 WiSE Vivian class, having attended the VijnAnVikAs classes right from its inception (2003) till he left for college.

The Pattern Institute congratulates Karthik and Abhirami, as well as his proud parents, Neera and Raveendran.

The Pattern Institute wishes WiSE ViVian Gauri Rajeev the very best in her new role at Archus, UK - the healthcare infrastructure specialist, as an Assistant Consultant. She will be based out of their Leeds office, working within Project and Programme Management & Strategic and Technical Advisory, and helping wth data analysis, capacity planning, and modelling.

Gauri was a student of VijnanVikas from 2008 onwards, till she completed Class XII, with the WiSE certification in 2015.
She did her graduation in Architecture from Trivandrum, and Masters from the UK. She has been interning at UK, and now joins Archus, working full-time.

Let us all join in congratulating her, and wishing her the very best in her budding career, and in life. 👏👏👏