Ruman Sidhu

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Data scientist, author and Academic Rep at the University of Bath

I'm doing an MSc in Data Science at Bath and building AI that helps people through cancer care. I write code, I write stories, and I care most about the place where those meet real people.

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The voice of my cohort

Academic Rep, MSc Data Science, University of Bath

At Bath, academic reps are the official link between students and their department, and it's a role the university takes seriously. I was chosen to represent the MSc Data Science cohort for 2026 to 2027.

In practice that means listening to what my coursemates need, bringing it to the Student Staff Liaison Committee, and working with staff to fix things while we're still on the course to benefit.

  • RepresentingThe whole MSc Data Science cohort
  • Sitting onThe Student Staff Liaison Committee
  • Counting towardsMy Bath Award for leadership and communication

And now a Student Ambassador too. In October 2026 the University of Bath took me on as a Student Ambassador for the year, helping future students get to know Bath.

About

I've always lived in two worlds, so you can read me either way.

I'm Ruman Sidhu. I write code, I write stories, and sometimes I write emails that take way too long because tone matters.

I studied Electronics and Communication Engineering in Chandigarh, then did the first year of an MS in Data Science at Seattle University, finishing with a 3.90 GPA and a place on the Dean's Honor Roll.

Then I made a big call. I want to build my career in the UK, where the NHS and some of the world's best health research sit right at the centre of what I care about. So with my mentor's encouragement, I moved to the University of Bath in September 2026 for its MSc in Data Science, a top-ranked programme in a country where I can see my future.

Along the way I've built machine learning models, published a novella, co-authored an anthology, edited two newsletters for two years, closed software deals, given talks on AI in healthcare and hosted more stages than I can count. I have a habit of raising my hand for things that sound interesting before fully thinking them through. It has worked out so far.

The long game is bringing AI into healthcare in ways that actually help people. It's why I spent a semester inside The Cancer Genome Atlas, and why I'm building Northlight, for children with cancer and the families around them. I'm mentored by Gurpreet Singh Sunny, CEO of Roundglass, who has backed my studies from the start.

When I'm not debugging or drafting, I'm probably anchoring an event, exploring Bath, or having a very passionate conversation about something oddly specific.

3.90GPA at Seattle University
4.0Dean's Honor Roll quarter, Winter 2026
15+Projects built
2Books published, a novel on the way
$6,102Top individual sales deal at Jungleworks
1Health app live, for kids with cancer

The ride

Everything I've done so far, from school in Chandigarh to Bath and beyond. Keep scrolling to ride along, or hop between stops with the buttons.

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  1. 2017

    Chandigarh

    Carmel Convent School

    Always the active student

    You'd find me on the playground or rehearsing for annual day, not at my desk. Elected prefect many times across different classes, anchored school events, played softball up to national level and amateur junior golf, and won story writing competitions and quizzes.

    • Prefect
    • Softball
    • Junior golf
    • Anchoring

  2. 2020

    Chandigarh

    Engineering at CCET

    BE in Electronics and Communication, Panjab University

    Four years of Electronics and Communication Engineering, as class rep for all four of them: the link between my classmates and the faculty from day one to graduation.

    • CGPA 7.86
    • Class rep, all 4 years

  3. 2022

    The builder years

    Building things that move

    C, Arduino and IoT

    Built a self-parking smart car that senses an approaching emergency vehicle and parks itself out of the way, plus an IoT traffic signal system and a laser tripwire, and exhibited at CCET's Innovative Product Design Expo. Certified by NIELIT and Cisco.

    • C
    • Arduino
    • IoT

  4. 2022

    The writer years

    The Mist, and a run of writing prizes

    Novella on Amazon Kindle and Wattpad

    Published my novella, was recognised by India's Next Big Writer, and won writing competitions that took me to national level representing my college. As literary head, I led clubs whose teams won debates at state tournaments and youth fests.

    • Published author
    • National level, writing
    • State debate wins

  5. 2022

    The editor years

    Newsletter Editor, two years running

    Bits and Bytes for the ECE department, and the Apostle of Speech debating society

    Edited two newsletters for two years: the ECE department's Bits and Bytes, and the newsletter of Apostle of Speech, our debating society. Turning everyone's ideas and drafts into issues people actually wanted to read.

    • Editor, 2 years
    • Bits and Bytes
    • Apostle of Speech

  6. 2023

    The speaker years

    Talking AI in healthcare, on stage

    CCET and Panjab University

    Gave webinars and seminars on how AI can be a boon in healthcare, especially for cancer and long surgeries, including three days of talks in a row. Anchored the MATLAB and Simulink event for engineers, introduced a long line of guest speakers, and was recognised by Panjab University as an active speaker.

    • PU recognition
    • AI in healthcare
    • Anchoring

  7. 2023

    Words and data

    Co-author of Unwind, Vol. 3

    The Quill House Publication

    Co-authored an anthology, took part in the Aesperate MUN in Delhi, did my first real data analysis on NYC Airbnb data with Python, and in my final year organised story writing competitions for the juniors.

    • Anthology
    • Python
    • MUN

  8. Jan 2024

    First job

    Software Sales Associate to Business Consultant

    Jungleworks (JARI Trust)

    Went from trainee to consultant in one stint, built and kept international clients, and closed the highest individual deal at the company: $6,102.

    • Top deal at the company
    • SaaS

  9. Sep 2024

    Roundglass Sustain

    Social Media Marketing Intern

    Roundglass Sustain

    Worked with organisations like BBC Earth and Nat Geo on wildlife and sustainability, and found a mentor in Roundglass CEO Gurpreet Singh Sunny.

    • Content strategy
    • Partnerships

  10. 2025

    Seattle University

    MS in Data Science, year one

    Seattle University

    A fully funded Roundglass scholar: machine learning, big data on AWS, probability, experimental design and data ethics, with a 3.90 GPA. The highlight: a breast cancer genomics project with Paul Skentzos and Hamda Hassan, where clustering rediscovered known cancer subtypes from raw gene data.

    • 3.90 GPA
    • Roundglass scholar

  11. Winter 2026

    Dean's Honor Roll

    Dean's Graduate Student Honor Roll

    Seattle University, College of Science and Engineering

    A 4.0 quarter on a full course load, with full marks on every assignment, the midterm and the final in Probability for Data Science.

    • 4.0 quarter
    • Perfect scores

  12. Sep 2026

    Bath, UK

    MSc Data Science, University of Bath

    Why Bath? Because my future is in the UK

    I want to build my career here, close to the NHS and the UK's health research world, so I started my MSc on a Bath merit scholarship with sponsorship from the Roundglass Foundation. This semester: machine learning, deep learning, statistical data science and analytic software.

    • Merit scholarship
    • Deep learning

  13. Oct 2026

    The highest point so far

    Academic Rep, MSc Data Science

    University of Bath

    Chosen to be the voice of my cohort. I sit on the Student Staff Liaison Committee and take my coursemates' feedback straight to the department.

    • Student Staff Liaison Committee
    • Bath Award

  14. Oct 2026

    The same month

    Student Ambassador, University of Bath

    University of Bath, 2026 to 2027

    Taken on as a Student Ambassador for the year, helping future students get to know Bath and picture themselves here. Academic Rep and Student Ambassador, all in my first month.

    • Student Ambassador
    • Bath Award

  15. 2026

    My own build

    Northlight goes live

    A support app for children with cancer

    Published a live prototype with modes for children, families and caregivers, clinical staff, and medical students. Try it.

    • Healthcare
    • Product

  16. 2027

    Next stop

    Where the ride goes next

    Still climbing

    A graduate role in data science and AI, ideally in healthcare. My first novel, published. Northlight, launched properly. If your team could be the next stop, let's talk.

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Projects

Health tech I'm building on my own, coursework from Seattle University, and engineering projects from undergrad. Search by any skill to see where I've used it.

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Live prototype

Northlight

A support app for children with cancer and the people around them

Kids in cancer treatment often can't make sense of what they're going through, and parents are juggling scan days and appointments while scared out of their minds. Northlight is meant to be a calm, safe place for both, with separate modes for children aged 4 to 12, families and caregivers, clinical staff, and medical students.

  • Healthcare
  • Product design
  • Lovable
Try Northlight
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The problem

Young children can't put their pain into words, and frightened parents lose track of appointments and scan days.

What I built

One app with four modes: calming breathing and sound tools for kids, an appointment and scan tracker for parents, a mode for clinical staff, and study material for medical students.

What's next

Getting it into the right hands, then a proper launch in India so it's easy for any family dealing with cancer to use.

Live demo

Oncology Navigator

Matching cancer patients to clinical trials with graph learning

Type in a gene and a condition, and it pulls real variant data from ClinVar and currently recruiting trials from ClinicalTrials.gov, links variants, drugs and trials into one graph, and ranks matches with a two-layer GraphSAGE model. It can surface a trial that targets your variant even when the trial never names the gene, then explains every match in plain language.

  • Python
  • GraphSAGE
  • PyTorch
  • LLMs
  • Streamlit
  • Healthcare
Try it liveView the code on GitHub
Seattle University, Spring 2026

The Cancer Genome Atlas

Breast cancer genomics with Paul Skentzos and Hamda Hassan

Two projects on TCGA breast cancer gene expression data, with around 17,000 genes for every patient sample. First, with no labels at all, we used PCA, matrix completion, k-means and hierarchical clustering to see whether the data would rediscover the known breast cancer subtypes on its own. It did: the groups lined up with Luminal A, Luminal B, HER2-enriched and triple-negative. Then we built classifiers to tell tumour from normal tissue across 590 samples, comparing an SVM, a neural network and logistic regression.

  • Python
  • PCA
  • Clustering
  • Neural networks
  • Machine learning
  • Healthcare
View the project on GitHub
My own build, 2026

Vitalis

Explains lab reports and prescriptions in plain English from a photo or pasted text, so people understand their own results.

  • React
  • Tailwind
  • LLMs
  • Healthcare
My own build, 2026

WriteSync Analytics

A writing analytics dashboard for tracking drafting habits and progress. Where my two worlds meet.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Vercel
DATA 5321, Winter 2026

Bike Sharing Demand Prediction

Full marks

Regression study comparing GAM, Ridge, Lasso, PCR and PLS, from exploratory analysis through to the final report.

  • R
  • GAM
  • Ridge and Lasso
  • PCR and PLS
DATA 5111, Winter 2026

Probability and Statistical Estimation

100/100 on every assignment, midterm and final

LaTeX derivations covering MLE and MMSE estimators, MGFs, order statistics, the bivariate normal and Bayes' theorem.

  • LaTeX
  • Statistics
  • MLE and MMSE
CPSC 5330, Spring 2026

Hadoop MapReduce on AWS

Distributed processing with Hadoop and HDFS on AWS EC2, including SSH setup, file transfer and HDFS operations.

  • Hadoop
  • HDFS
  • AWS
  • MapReduce
DATA 5322, Spring 2026

Ensemble Methods and Decision Trees

Random forests, gradient boosting, cross-validation and hyperparameter tuning, with a look at the bias-variance tradeoff.

  • R
  • Random forest
  • Boosting
CPSC 5071, Fall 2025

Netflix ETL Pipeline

Schema design, ETL workflows and analytical SQL on Netflix content data. Group project with a recorded presentation.

  • Python
  • SQL
  • MongoDB
  • ETL
CPSC 5071, Fall 2025

Hospital Appointment System

A relational database for hospital scheduling: schema design, normalisation, SQL queries and synthetic data.

  • SQL
  • MongoDB
  • Healthcare
OMSBA 5061, Spring 2025

FX Bank Risk Simulation

100/100

Monte Carlo simulation of a bank's losses across five currency pairs under 1, 3 and 5 sigma moves.

  • Python
  • Monte Carlo
  • Risk modelling
DATA 5100, Fall 2025

FX Options Pricing

The Garman-Kohlhagen currency option pricing model built from scratch, with doctests for every function.

  • Python
  • Finance
DATA 5100, Fall 2025

Image Classification

75/75

End-to-end image classification: choosing the problem, training the model, writing it up and presenting it.

  • Python
  • Machine learning
DATA 5100, Fall 2025

Seattle Weather Analysis

71/75

A full project cycle on Seattle weather data: study design, EDA, hypothesis testing, report and GitHub repo.

  • Python
  • EDA
  • Statistics
DATA 5100, Fall 2025

Escape! A Stochastic Random Walk

An object-oriented simulation of a prison escapee, with turtle graphics and boundary detection on the fence.

  • Python
  • Simulation
MATH 2310

Reliability and Failure Rate Analysis

Reliability functions and failure rates for normal and exponential distributions, with SPSS and Excel.

  • SPSS
  • Excel
  • Statistics
Undergrad

Overtake Assistance Smart Car

A self-parking car that senses an approaching emergency vehicle and parks itself to clear the way.

  • C
  • Arduino
  • Sensors
Undergrad, 2023

Traffic Signal Automation

An IoT traffic control system that adjusts signal timing to live traffic density.

  • C
  • IoT
  • Arduino
NIELIT, 2023

NYC Airbnb Data Analysis

Exploring pricing, neighbourhood trends and host behaviour in the NYC Airbnb dataset.

  • Python
  • Pandas
  • Matplotlib
NIELIT, 2022

Laser Tripwire Security System

Laser-based intruder detection using Arduino, embedded C and sensor interfacing.

  • C
  • Arduino
  • IoT

Recognition

Awards and roles across study, work, writing, the stage and sport.

Academic

  • Academic Rep, MSc Data ScienceUniversity of Bath, 2026 to 2027
  • Bath merit scholarshipUniversity of Bath, MSc Data Science, 2026
  • Dean's Graduate Student Honor RollSeattle University, Winter 2026, 4.0 that quarter
  • Perfect score in Probability for Data ScienceEvery homework, the midterm and the final
  • 99.88% in Programming I for BusinessSeattle University, Spring 2025, with 100/100 on both midterms
  • 100/100 on the Data Translator final projectFX risk simulation, Spring 2025

Professional

  • Student Ambassador, University of Bath2026 to 2027
  • Roundglass scholarSponsored by the Roundglass Foundation at Seattle University and Bath
  • Highest individual sales deal, $6,102Jungleworks, 2024
  • Cisco Introduction to IoTCisco Networking Academy via NIELIT Chandigarh, 2022
  • NIELIT certificationsIoT Applications (2022) and Python with Data Science (2023)

Writing

  • India's Next Big WriterNational poetry and creative writing, March 2022
  • 1st place, creative writing (story)PU Zonal Youth and Heritage Festival, November 2022
  • 3rd place, creative writingPU Youth and Heritage Festival, Zone A, November 2021
  • Certificate of Appreciation for story writingCCET IIC, November 2022
  • Newsletter Editor, two yearsBits and Bytes for the ECE department, and the Apostle of Speech debating society
  • Represented my college at national levelWriting competitions
  • Writers' Moment recognition for The MistCreative Writing Contest Season 2, November 2022

Speaking and leadership

  • Recognised by Panjab University as an active speakerFor anchoring and introducing guest speakers across undergrad
  • Talks on AI in healthcareWebinars and seminars on AI for cancer care and long surgeries, including three days in a row
  • Anchor, MATLAB and Simulink eventFor engineers, on building models with MATLAB and Simulink
  • Best Topic award as keynote speakerCampus-wide webinars, CCET
  • Class Representative, all four yearsElectronics and Communication Engineering, CCET
  • Elected prefect, many timesAcross different classes, Carmel Convent School

Debate and campus life

  • Literary head of debate-winning clubsState tournaments and youth fests
  • Best Debate TeamUndergraduate debating, CCET
  • 2nd place, debateInternational Women's Day, CCET, March 2022
  • Organised story writing competitionsFor all the juniors, in my final year
  • Organised the Earth Day poster competitionCCET Institution's Innovation Council, April 2022
  • Aesperate MUN, UNGA committeeDelhi International School, May 2023

Sport

  • Softball, up to national levelCarmel Convent School
  • Amateur junior golf tournamentsSchool years
  • Silver medals in basketball and volleyballCCET inter-year girls' tournaments, 2022

Skills

The tools I reach for, and the half of me that isn't code.

Languages

Python, R, SQL, C and C++, TypeScript

Machine learning and stats

scikit-learn, regression and regularisation, ensemble methods, graph neural networks (GraphSAGE), statistical inference

Data and platforms

Pandas, NumPy, tidyverse, MongoDB, Hadoop and HDFS, AWS EC2, Streamlit, SPSS, Excel

Building apps

React, Tailwind, Vercel, LLM APIs, Lovable, Arduino and IoT

Visualisation

Matplotlib, Seaborn, ggplot2

The other half

Public speaking, event anchoring, writing and editing, debate, client work and sales

Writing

Stories came before code, and they're not going anywhere.

The Mist

Novella, literary fiction

A story about ambiguity, memory and identity, recognised by Writers' Moment and by India's Next Big Writer at national level.

Read on Kindle Read on Wattpad

Unwind, Vol. 3

Anthology, co-author

A contributing author in the third volume of Unwind from The Quill House Publication, February 2023, with a certificate of appreciation from its CEO.

My first novel

Full-length fiction, in progress

Being written and rewritten right now. I'm aiming to publish it by early 2027.

Two truths and a lie

One last game before you go. Each round has two true facts about me and one lie. Spot the lie.

Round 1 of 5

Which one is the lie?

Let's build something that helps people.

I'm based in Bath, UK, and always up for a conversation about data science, healthcare AI, graduate roles, research or writing. LinkedIn is the quickest way to reach me.

Connect on LinkedIn /in/rumannn03 GitHub simplyyweirdd3 The Mist on Kindle Amazon

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