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
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.
Food Systems and Access
Research and tools for nutritional quality, community food systems, and the economics of food access.
Applications and current status
VEX Visualizer
LiveSeason results from official data
Event results, team records, skills standings and World Championship qualifiers for the 2026-2027 VEX V5 Robotics Competition, from official VEX Events data. Signature events update every 30 minutes while they run; other events update twice a week. The Worlds 2026 dashboard (866 high school teams) is kept as an archive.
Open the visualizerPantry Dashboard
LiveFood bank records as operational views
The dashboard reads a food bank's intake spreadsheet in any layout and builds views for the monthly overview, departments, donors, distribution and trends. It is free to use and includes a synthetic sample workbook.
Open the dashboardNutriScan
In PreparationThree published nutrition ratings, applied together
A nutritional quality classifier for Indian and global foods, built on Nutri-Score, the NOVA processing scale and the UK FSA traffic-light system.
Project pageLEAF-Link
CompletedA concept study on spaceflight plant data
In NASA study OSD-37, plant strain explained more of the gene-expression data than spaceflight, yet flight and ground samples were told apart for 55 of 56 samples held out in turn. Independent research by Arjun, completed October 2026.
Results and codeAbout the lab
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 VEX Visualizer season tracker and its Worlds 2026 archive, and LEAF-Link, a completed concept study on plant-stress data for NASA's LEAF lunar payload.
- 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 serves the question. It runs through both research areas rather than living as a separate one, and is shaped by what each project actually needs to answer.
- Small and deliberate. New research areas appear only when work exists to justify them.
- Grounded in published methods. The lab borrows from established literature before inventing, and cites the work it builds on.
- Open by default. Tools are released with their methodology visible. Research is co-authored with the faculty it is built with.
Arjun 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.