Vaikkunth Mugunthan
FounderFounder at Dynamo AI · Founder at DynamoFL
New York, New York, United States
FoundedDynamo AI · YCDynamoFL
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About
Vaikkunth Mugunthan holds an SM and PhD in computer science from MIT (2019, 2022) and is co-founder and CEO of DynamoFL, working in differential privacy and federated learning.
Founder at Dynamo AIYC W22
Intro paths
YC
Vaikkunth went through Y Combinator (Winter 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Dynamo AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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Dynamo AI's investors · 4
Co-founders at Dynamo AI
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Christian LauFounder
Founder at DynamoFL
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DynamoFL's investors · 6
Co-founders at DynamoFL
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Christian LauExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter
Experience
- Dynamo AICEO / Co-Foundercurrent2021 — presentNew York, New York, United States
- Vaikkunth's Angel InvestmentsAngel Investorcurrent2024 — present
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyGraduate Research Assistant2017 — 2022Cambridge, MA
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyGraduate Teaching Assistant2019 — 2020Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTechnical Mentor - Global Startup Labs2018Baku, Azerbaijan & Johannesburg, South Africa
- IntechMicroprediction Intern - Research Scientist2021
- Fulltrack AI (by Maiden)Co-Founder2020 — 2021
- JPMorgan Chase & Co.Summer Associate - Data Science and Machine Learning Intern2019New York City Metropolitan Area
- MicrosoftSoftware Engineer Intern2017Tokyo, Japan
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR)Visiting Research Scholar2016Little Rock Metropolitan Area
- IBMProject Trainee -Analytics2015 — 2016
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Languages English · Tamil
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Vaikkunth Mugunthan?
- Vaikkunth Mugunthan holds an SM and PhD in computer science from MIT (2019, 2022) and is co-founder and CEO of DynamoFL, working in differential privacy and federated learning.
- Where does Vaikkunth Mugunthan work?
- Vaikkunth Mugunthan is Founder of Dynamo AI and Co-founder at DynamoFL.
- What companies did Vaikkunth Mugunthan found?
- Vaikkunth Mugunthan founded Dynamo AI, DynamoFL.
- Where did Vaikkunth Mugunthan go to school?
- Vaikkunth Mugunthan studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science); Harvard University (PhD Minor, Privacy); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Master of Science - MS, Computer Science).
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