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My AI Journey: From Fuzzy Logic to Plastic with a Passport using re:Trace™

  • Writer: Naveen Sydney
    Naveen Sydney
  • Apr 4
  • 1 min read

A four-quadrant image with the title "FROM THUMBPRINTS TO TRACEABILITY" in a black banner across the center. The top left quadrant shows a simplified diagram of a neural network with an "Input Layer," "Hidden Layer," and "Output Layer." The bottom left quadrant displays a clear image of a human thumbprint. The top right quadrant features a wireframe cube overlapping a circular object, possibly a lid or cap, set against a textured blue background. The bottom right quadrant is also against a textured blue background and shows the same circular object.

Part 1 of 4 in the “Legacy of Intelligence” Series by SeaSweepers CEO Naveen Sydney


This is the first in a four-part series chronicling my journey with Artificial Intelligence not just as a technology, but as a lifelong thread that’s run through my career, my values, and now, my mission to protect the oceans.


I started working with neural networks and fuzzy logic in the late 1990s, years before AI became a buzzword. I was just a teenager in India, scribbling self-organizing maps into notebooks and trying to teach machines how to see.


Decades later, I find myself working with AI again, but this time, it’s helping me trace the origin of ocean plastic, rebuild trust in recycling, and give discarded materials a second life.

Over four articles, I’ll share the story of that full-circle moment and how a curious kid with a thesis on image processing grew into a founder building a tool called re:Trace™ and giving Plastic a Passport.


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