[SIH 2026] We’re looking for mentors
We’re Sententia — a team of 2nd-year students that somehow made it to the SIH 2026 Nationals.
Our problem statement is SIH26093: building a first-point-of-contact psychological state assessment system for victims/complainants of atrocities.
The idea is ambitious.
We’re working on a system that can analyse text, voice and potentially video to identify psychological indicators and help prioritise cases for appropriate intervention.
We’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time researching the problem, breaking it apart, arguing over architecture, building prototypes, throwing ideas away, and rebuilding them.
But here’s the thing:
We know what we don’t know.
And that’s exactly why we’re looking for 1–2 technical mentors.
Not someone to build the project for us.
We want someone who can look at our architecture and say:
“This won’t work.”
And then tell us why.
Someone who can challenge our assumptions.
Someone who can look at our ML pipeline and ask how we’re actually going to validate it.
Someone who understands AI/ML, NLP, speech analysis, multimodal AI, affective computing, system architecture, or adjacent fields.
Someone who isn’t afraid to tell a bunch of ambitious students that their “revolutionary” idea is actually bullshit. 😂
Because that’s the kind of mentor we want.
We’re fast.
We’re obsessive.
We ask too many questions.
We change our minds when the evidence tells us we’re wrong.
And we’re trying to build something that is technically defensible, not just impressive on a PPT.
If you have the expertise and a few sessions to spare, we’d genuinely love to have you on this journey with us.
And if Sententia makes it to the Grand Finale, you won’t just be a mentor watching from the sidelines.
You come with us.
If this sounds interesting, DM me.
Let’s see what we can build.
— Sententia