princeton, nj

mayan wasu_

electrical & computer engineering @ princeton

class of '27 singapore → nj
mw

about 01

i like tinkering. junior @ princeton — bse in electrical & computer engineering, minors in applied math and cs. graduating may 2027. former lieutenant in the singapore armed forces.

currently 02

sponge
summer 2026 · sf
building, learning, working.
engineer · strum · vert ventures
nov 2025 — now · nyc
a guitar app at 1M+ active users.
swifttypescriptreact nativegrowth

previously 03

founding engineer · premonition
nov 2025 — mar 2026 · nyc
hft on prediction markets. $750k pre-seed from alliance & z-fellows.
  • built arb strategies and latency-sensitive infra across kalshi, polymarket, crypto.com
  • established partnerships with kalshi, polymarket, and crypto.com
pythonc++low-latencywebsocketsmarket-making
jun — aug 2025 · dc
  • first-author at spie photonics west 2026 — best paper award
  • benchmarking pipeline + custom phantom for 3d vision in surgical robotics
  • python/ros calibration tools pitting ai perception against hardware ground truth
pythonrosopencv3d visionsurgical robotics
r&d intern · advanced micro foundry · silicon photonics; coherent-lite transceiver sim
summer 2024 · singapore
cto · curbon · sustainability tool; raised $10k across pitch comps
2023–24 · princeton

work 04

research spectral transforms for long-context llms 2026

independent work with prof. valavi. rethinking attention via frequency-domain approximations.

m. wasu et al. · children's national hospital · best paper · award listing.

m. wasu et al. · best system implementation, princeton hci.

build heimdall keller incubator · 2025

agentic cybersecurity platform — multi-agent architecture cutting manual security review.

research spoilt or not? swan labs · 2024

em sensing for food-spoilage detection with prof. ghasempour.

hardware punc class project

16-instruction processor on fpga. isa, datapath, control — all the way down.

service 05

infantry officer (lieutenant) · singapore armed forces
aug 2021 — jul 2023
two years mandatory service. platoon commander → company 3ic (120 troopers). early promotion from 2lt to lt.

learned how to keep people under you happy, people above you happy, and how to sell a vision so people make it their own. also learned how to stay unfazed in any situation.

thoughts 06

a wall of sticky notes — things i'm reading, half-thoughts, drafts. open the wall →

say hi! 07

[x] at princeton dot edu   where [x] = mayanwasu

if you're in princeton or nyc we can grab coffee or a beer. in sf for the summer!