Null Set Labs

A youth-led research lab building open tools across robotics, food systems and access, and related research.

First principles · Open tools · Public good

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What the lab is working on.

Robotics

Open tools and statistical research for competition robotics, plus space-systems concepts that sit at the edge of robotics and biology.

VEX Visualizer VEX Research LEAF-Link Override
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Food Systems and Access

Research and tools for nutritional quality, community food systems, and the economics of food access.

NutriScan Community Food Bank Efficiency
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About

A small lab, grounded in published methods.

Null Set Labs is a youth-led research lab. The lab is computational and analytical rather than a wet bench. Its work lives in open-source tools, statistical analysis, and research developed toward publication.

Active research at the lab spans two areas:

  • Robotics. Open-source tools and statistical research for the VEX competition ecosystem, including the live VEX Visualizer dashboard used at Worlds 2026, and concept work on space-systems robotics under the Artemis track.
  • Food Systems and Access. Research and tools spanning nutritional quality classification, community food bank operations, and economic disparities in food access. Public deliverables include the Pantry Dashboard.

Statistics work runs through both areas rather than as a separate one: it serves the questions each project asks. New research areas appear only when work exists to justify them. The work is small, deliberate, and grounded in published methods. Tools the lab releases are open and used by the communities they serve. Research the lab publishes is co-authored with the faculty it is built with.

About Arjun

Arjun Mohanan is a high-school student and the founder of Null Set Labs. He builds tools when he wants to understand a system more deeply, and he collaborates with university faculty to take that work toward publication. His interests sit at the intersection of mathematics, robotics, and applied data science.