Sid Chalamalasetty

Highly motivated student and social entrepreneur committed to expanding equity in youth sports through technology, research, and community leadership. A curious and ambitious learner committed to researching and developing solutions that create meaningful social and community impact.

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Crown project

MatchGenie.ai

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AI-powered tennis analytics and coaching, built on a computer-vision pipeline that reads real match footage. Paid subscriptions subsidize free, professional-grade analytics for grassroots players.

200+

players

100+

matches

partner orgs

40+

on free access

Computer-vision pipeline

Trained player, ball and court detection with rally-level video processing. Led the annotation workflow and iterated on errors seen in real footage.

Equity access model

Partnerships with A Bright Future, YMCA programs and Special Olympics Massachusetts extend access across competitive and community tennis.

Python Computer vision React JavaScript Streamlit SQLite

Visit matchgenie.ai ↗

More projects

LetsTennis.org

Nonprofit ↗

A youth-led platform where competitive players volunteer to coach anyone who wants to learn. Badges and rewards keep volunteers coming back.

250+ students · 100+ coaches

DaSidBeatz.com

Music ↗

I produce and sell original beats on a site I built. 100% of proceeds go to expanding access to youth sports in New England.

5 albums · 35 beats · ~$2K donated

Special Olympics MA

Story ↗

Formed the partnership through LetsTennis and grew inclusive clinics from 1 week and 10 athletes to 4 weeks and 25+, pairing each athlete 1-on-1 with a volunteer.

25+ athletes · Lead Organizer

Research · 01

Alzheimer's research, Harvard Medical School

Chenxi Qiu Lab · BIDMC Neurology
PI: Dr. Chenxi Qiu · Supervisor: Daniel Na

My project asked whether different tau intron-retention events produce oligomers — a step toward characterizing abnormal tau behavior in Alzheimer's disease.

After learning the protocol for the first time, I independently ran repeated Western blots, analyzed each result, traced error sources in SDS-PAGE and electrotransfer, and adjusted later runs to improve separation and detection. Experiments with new intron-retention samples then surfaced problems within the samples themselves, which is now driving better preparation.

Western blotSDS-PAGETau / oligomers

Lab members page ↗

Lab presentation

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Research · 02

Reducing Access Barriers in Sports Performance

A Data-Driven Evaluation of AI-Powered Tennis Match Analytics

MatchGenie.ai · Presented at NHSSAA

Professional sports analytics take money, specialized equipment and coaching staff — resources mostly reserved for elite athletes. This study asks whether MatchGenie.ai can deliver AI-powered performance insights that meaningfully improve decision-making and match outcomes for competitive junior players, at a fraction of traditional coaching costs.

Players are tracked across 2–3 baseline matches without AI, then 3–5 matches using MatchGenie feedback, comparing shot selection, tactical adjustments, win rates and error reduction — with a cohort of underserved USTA juniors alongside competitive players.

LLM tactical analysisYOLOv8Sports equity

NHSSAA research ↗

Research presentation

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Recognition

Diamond Challenge — Top 100 Global Emerging Innovator ↗Semifinalist NHSSAA Sports Analytics Conference ↗Presenter '26

Changemakers National AwardSemifinalist

Crescendo International — Carnegie Hall2nd place

NEPSAC & ISL Champions, Varsity Tennis2024, 2025

Press

StartupBOS Inside the mind of a high school founder building AI for tennis ↗

Special Olympics Massachusetts Breaking barriers: Roxbury Latin student heads Special Olympics tennis clinic ↗