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Hello, I am Mikul Saravanan. I'm an Egleston Scholar majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Economics at Columbia University. I love building. Check out my latest startup Wagoo.ai.

About me

Building the next greatest thing 🙂

From a patented air cleaning robot to audio forensics research to AI underwriting software, I turn ideas into products. Just left Deeptune (acquired by Mercor), where I created training environments for AI agents, while running Wagoo in parallel. Studying CS and Econ at Columbia. Ex hacker, I hit the gym, explore the outdoors, and DJ on the side.

School Organizations

CU Raaga - Events Chair
Research @ The Accessible and Accelerated Robotics Lab (A²R Lab) - 2024-2025 .
Columbia University Formula Racing (HV Enclosure Lead) - 2023-2025
Columbia University Robotics Club - Combat Robotics (battlebots) - 2023-2024
Paragon Global Investment's Quant Team
CORE's Project Management Fellowship - 2024
CUSP: Egleston Scholar

Current Projects

Wagoo - Startup

AI underwriting automation platform for lending teams. Reduces deal processing from 4 hours to under 3 minutes through AI processing.

AI
Fintech
Automation
Underwriting

Keel Financial OS

AI-first personal and entity finance system of record. A deterministic double-entry ledger where AI suggests and never silently acts. Every change waits for your approval.

Next.js
AI
Fintech
Ledger
Plaid

Past Projects

Turing Test Visualization

Scrollytelling data viz across 486 conversations exploring how LLMs communicate with humans and other AIs. Thesis: the harder an AI tries to seem human, the more it gives itself away.

Python
D3.js
Three.js
LLMs
Data Viz

E-Ink Dashboard

Color e-ink digital dashboard and picture frame for displaying calendars, weather, photos, and more.

E-Ink
Raspberry Pi
Python
Hardware

Wagoo v0

Original desktop assistant that pivoted into a voice-first personal assistant. Building Jarvis and the future of the operating system for AI.

Electron
React
Voice
LLMs

A²R Lab

The A²R Lab develops algorithms for dynamic motion planning and control of robots. I am the link betwen software and the robot dog hardware.

Python
C
Robotics
Motion Planning
Algorithms

Rem - Startup

Rem is an AI-powered social dream journal that boosts mental health by helping you reflect, connect, and explore your subconscious through shared dream insights.

Supabase
React
Full Stack
AI
Design

HV Enclosure - FSAE

I am creating and testing the High Voltate enclosure (accumulator) for our FSAE 2025 car.

Solidworks
FEA
Manufacturing
Design

Dash - Startup

Co-founded with Samay to apply technology to protect families by develoiping a distraction detection system for drivers.

Startup
Computer-Vision
App Dev
AI

Pong IRL

Team project by Aryan, Julia, Samay, and Wesley to create a real-life pong game using motors and physical conrol.

Arduion
Stepper
Electronics
C
Engineering

Stock Trading

Analyzing stocks programmatically to pinpoint the best moments for buying and selling strategically.

Python
Data Analytics
Stock Indicators
PyTorch
ML

BYRDS

A natural disaster response aid that helps responders find critical information and location to save lives.

Python
GPT4-V
OpenAI Clips
Figma
Tkinter

Air Cleaning Robot v2

This is v2 of my novel autonomous robot with a complete redesign, new ROS navigation stack, and better performance.

ROS
CAD
CFD
Sesnors
Autonomus Robot
CV

Audio Forensics Research

Developed adversarial attack defense algorithms & ASV countermeasures using teacher/student and federated learning techniques.

Python
Deep Learing
PyTorch
Research
ASV

Air Cleaning Robot v1

A novel multipurpose air-handling robot that purifies, humidifies, and disinfects the air evenly within a room or rooms.

CAD
CFD
Electronics
Air Quality
Python

Credit Deals

Project website that manages all Credit Card deals from Visa (API), MasterCard (soon), and custom deals so you know which credit card to use when.

HTML
CSS
PHP
MySQL
API

Personal Website

I created this website to showcase all my projects, big and small, and learn web dev!

React
Next.js
Tailwind
TypeScript

6-Axis Robot Arm

Designed, constructed, and programmed a low-cost and lightweight robot arm with novel dynamic soft gripper.

VEX Robotics - 39K

VEX Robotics team 39K Rest in Pieces. Led the team to be one of the top perorming teams in the world for 4+ years, working on all aspects of the robot.

VEX
Robotics
CAD
C++
PID

Showcase

SetBuilder

DJ set builder with 9K+ tracks, filterable by BPM, key, energy, and mood.

Constellation Clock

Abstract constellation clock visualization built with p5.js.

VANS: Visual Analogy Network Solver

Deep learning system for solving visual IQ puzzles (Raven's Progressive Matrices) at human-level accuracy.

Digital Song of the Future

Perihelion Drift: a 3:20 melodic-house track synthesized from scratch in Python. Just raw math turned into music.

My experience

Member of Technical Staff - Deeptune (acquired by Mercor)

New York, NY

First intern and early engineer building AI training gyms: simulation environments where AI agents practice real-world tasks to learn and improve over time.

Sep 2025 - Aug 2026

Co-Founder & CEO - Wagoo

New York, NY

Build the next generation of desktop and personal assistants. -> Pivoted into Wagoo Lending

Jun 2025 - Present

Founding Engineer - Conductor Labs

New York, NY

Front-end and back-end for agent orchestration for climate and industrial processes generation.

Mar 2025 - Sep 2025

Prompt Engineering Intern - Rilla

New York, NY

Generate accurate prompts for sales/ marketing rep tracker systems that align with client use cases.

Sep 2024 - May 2025

Digitization Intern - Magna International

Troy, MI

Implementing text-to-speech and speech-to-text algorithms using AWS and integrating them with Gen AI via AWS and Claude.

May 2024 - Aug 2024

Researcher @ The Accessible and Accelerated Robotics Lab (A²R Lab)

Barnard Collge, Columbia University

Developing and implementing open-source algorithms for dynamic motion planning and control. Now taking these algorithms and implementing them on the robot dog & robot arm hardware.

Feb 2024 - Apr 2025

Columbia University

New York, NY

Clubs: CU Formula Racing, CU Robotics Club - Battlebots, Columbia Space Initiative, Paragon Global Investments (Quant Division)

Sep 2023 - Present

Cranbrook HUB

Bloomfield Hills, MI

Instructed Horizons-Upward Bound students in foundational robotics by guiding hands-on VEX robot construction and programming for individual teams.

Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

Rockbridge Growth Equity

Detroit, MI

Interned at private equity firm, learning about and working on fundemental analysis of potential investments. Attended board meetings, and created company summaries.

May 2023 - Jun 2023

Intrepid Control Systems

Troy, MI

Drasically reduced hardware device startup time by improving GPS startup. Revamped low-level C code to store and access critical data.

Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

Intrepid Control Systems

Troy, MI

Expedited the PCB file generation process by creating a CI/CD pipeline in GitLab. Also included PCB validation, assembly, build, and BOM file generation.

Jul 2021 - Sep 2021

Student Researcher @ Oakland University

Rochester Hills, MI

Developed adversarial attack defense algorithms & ASV countermeasures using teacher/student and federated learning techniques. Published a comparative analysis of ASV methods.

Jun 2020 - Dec 2022

Contact Me

Please contact me directly at mikulventure@gmail.com or though this form.