Philadelphia · Singapore · Jülich

Savitur Swarup

i like to build things.

usually somewhere between machine learning, markets, and the brain.

CS & Finance University of Pennsylvania Class of 2028
Open to Summer 2027 internships · Software · Machine Learning · Quant · Research
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Savitur Swarup
S·S Savitur Swarup

I'm a sophomore at Penn studying Computer Science at SEAS and Economics & Finance at Wharton. I like problems that sit between fields, and once something grabs me I have a hard time putting it down until it actually works.

Lately that's been AI agents, EEG models of the brain, and a bit of quant on the side. I'm pretty relentless once I'm into something, and honestly I just really like building things that work.

Machine LearningAgentic AIFull-StackComputational Neuroscience
  • USACO Gold Division
  • Math Olympiad Gold · 24th intl
  • GPA 3.8 / 4.0
Jun 2026 – Present Singapore

Software Engineer Tara Ventures

Built an ad-optimization pipeline (Python, Meta and Google Ads APIs) that generates LLM media and A/B tests it across products. Added multi-armed bandit budget allocation that drops underperformers on its own, for a projected 50% lift in ROAS, inside a loop that feeds results back into the next round of creative.

Nov 2025 – Present Philadelphia, PA

Co-Founder & Software Engineer Bridge AI

Building an agentic AI system with a 45-tool registry that takes real CRM actions like creating deals, moving pipeline stages, and drafting follow-ups, all behind confirmation gates, snapshot undo, and trust-gating for anything destructive. Also built the RAG layer on Postgres/pgvector and a routing layer across 7 LLM providers with fallbacks, consensus voting, and per-call cost tracking.

Jan 2023 – Aug 2025 Asia

Founder / CEO Jiro Web Solutions

Started a freelance web dev agency serving small businesses across Asia, hired and trained a team of five, and shipped 20+ production sites and apps with auth, Stripe, and Firebase/Supabase in React, React Native, and Vue.

May 2026 – Jul 2026 Jülich, Germany

Research Intern RWTH Aachen · Forschungszentrum Jülich

Built one EEG pipeline (Python, MNE) across 8 datasets, 504 people, and 8 clinical conditions. Fit a single microstate model, pulled 24 features per person, and showed the features separate neurodegenerative disease from controls, with an Alzheimer's model that transfers to unseen FTD. Ran the paranoid checks too: age regression, 5,000-shuffle permutation tests, cross-site validation, and ComBat, which caught a spectral confound faking a depression result.

0.89Alzheimer's AUC
0.80FTD AUC
0.92AD→FTD transfer
Jun 2024 – Sep 2024 Singapore

Research Intern A*STAR · Centre for Frontier AI Research

Benchmarked a range of LLMs on multimodal sarcasm detection under Prof. Cheston Tan, then fine-tuned a custom model on what the benchmarks showed to sharpen context and text-image understanding.

Vig quant research desk with model health, trailing IC, and decile spread

Vig

Quant Research Platform

A quant research engine built to attack its own signal before trusting it. Vol-targeted backtests, walk-forward validation, and 70+ tests in CI. I rebuilt a point-in-time S&P universe to measure survivorship bias directly, found most of the edge was a backtest artifact, then recovered a smaller real one at half the cost.

Pythonpandas / NumPywalk-forward CV
EEG microstate topographies for schizophrenia and healthy controls, classes A to D

EEG Microstate Pipeline

Computational Neuroscience

One pipeline across 8 public datasets and 504 people. It fits a single microstate model, pulls 24 features per person, and classifies brain disorders from a few minutes of resting-state EEG. Alzheimer's separates from controls at 0.89 AUC, and a model trained on it transfers to FTD it never saw.

PythonMNEscikit-learn
Time Bank kids app showing home, morning routine, and growth stats

Time Bank

Kids' Productivity App

A kids' app with its own economy. Kids earn minutes for chores and routines, parents approve requests and stock a reward store, and a dashboard tracks progress. Built in React Native with Firebase, and live on the App Store and Google Play.

React NativeFirebaseCross-platform
Job Applier feed with category, location, and source filters

Job Applier

Chrome Extension

A Chrome extension that runs my job hunt. It pulls listings from a bunch of sources into one filterable feed, tracks applications on a calendar, autofills forms, and drafts cover letters with an LLM.

Chrome APIsJavaScriptLLM drafting
Prime Gaffa Simulator, a World Cup manager game

Prime Gaffa

Football Manager Sim

A World Cup manager game. Open transfer market with player moods, live matches, a tactics board, fatigue, suspensions, and pass-the-laptop multiplayer. The match engine and the whole interface are hand-built from scratch, no game engine involved.

JavaScriptCustom match engineBuilt from scratch

Languages

Python · TypeScript · JavaScript · C/C++ · Java · SQL

ML / AI

PyTorch · scikit-learn · pandas · NumPy · XGBoost · Hugging Face · MNE-Python · RAG (pgvector)

Web / Backend

React · React Native · Node.js · Express · Next.js · Prisma · REST

Data / Infra

PostgreSQL · Redis · BullMQ · pg-boss · Supabase · Firebase · Docker

Coursework

Data Structures & Algorithms · Computer Systems · Automata & Computability · Probability · Linear Algebra · Discrete Math

Say hi.

Always down to talk research, quant, or building things.