Arul Murugan

CEO

Berkeley, California, United States5 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in AI Safety and Alignment.
  • Proven track record in machine learning applications.
  • Strong background in product development and analytics.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a skilled professional in AI and SaaS development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningBackend DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentAnalytics

Other Skills

API DevelopmentAWS LambdaData EngineeringData ProcessingData VisualizationFinancial MarketsGame TheoryManagementProblem SolvingTradingWeb Scraping

About

MIMS student at UC Berkeley focusing on AI Safety & Alignment. Experienced in mechanistic interpretability, AI-driven simulations, and computational social science. Passionate about building transparent, controllable AI systems that align with human values.

Experience

University of california, berkeley

Research Fellow

Jul 2024Aug 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Working with Prof. Abhishek Nagaraj and Prof. Matteo Tranchero in The Data Innovation Lab.

Photon insights, inc.

Founding Engineer

May 2022Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Pennsylvania, United States

  • Helped rapidly build the MVP along with the founder, which was used to raise a funding of $2million.
  • Information Retrieval: Engineered advanced web and social media scrapers, optimizing data processing.
  • Backend: Developed API endpoints using FastAPI, built server-less applications and deployed on AWS Lambda.
  • Analytics: Leveraged MixPanel and Metabase to obtain App Statistics and mitigate customer pain points; also performed case studies using the Photon tool for early warning detection.
  • Machine Learning: Evaluated state-of-the-art models to develop an optimal ensemble for sentiment detection and summarization; worked with embeddings and vector databases to create LLM-based applications and curated high-quality diverse datasets for custom model fine-tuning.
Web ScrapingData ProcessingAPI DevelopmentAWS LambdaAnalyticsMachine Learning+1

Woodstock fund

Research Intern

Jan 2022Apr 2022 · 3 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  • Woodstock is a multi-asset investment fund house focused on investments in emerging technologies. Our primary focus is distributed ledger technology (DLT) with emphasis on four areas - public DLT, decentralized finance (DeFi), tokenization (including non-fungible tokens) and web 3.0 protocols. We also focus on equity investments in early and growth stage companies in the DLT space (including service providers offering services to investment funds investing in the DLT space). We invest in tokens (utility and security), equity and convertibles (in primary and secondary markets).
  • At present we manage two funds, both registered with the Cayman Island Monetary Authority:
  • (i) Woodstock Capital Fund I - discretionary fund for strategic investors; and
  • (ii) Woodstock Capital Fund II - aggregated fund for HNIs, family offices and institutional investors.
  • Woodstock also manages a segregated portfolio company with specific focus on augmenting the emerging technology ecosystem.
  • Our investments include Elrond, Biconomy, Covalent, Band Protocol, Marlin Protocol, Casper Labs, Mudrex, Propine, Paraswap, Persistence, Frontier, Terra Virtua, Mintbase, Arcana, Moralis, and Holoride among others.

Brightchamps

Associate Product Manager

Jul 2021Dec 2021 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked on various automation projects to streamline operations and product delivery, including webpage scraping, data extraction from Instagram, and Certificate generation, cutting down 20+ hours/week cumulatively.

Queen mary university of london

Research Assistant

May 2021Jul 2021 · 2 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

  • Worked with Dr. Vimal Balasubramaniam from the Queen Mary University of London, to augment a statistical package in R on event studies, incorporating machine learning techniques for finance research.

Quark bits pilani goa

Corporate Panel Coordinator

Jun 2020Mar 2021 · 9 mos

Ultratech cement

Summer Intern

May 2020Jun 2020 · 1 mo · Kotputli, India

Bits goa consulting club

Partner - Business Studies

Apr 2020Apr 2021 · 1 yr

  • Co-founded a standalone Consulting Club for BITS Pilani Goa Campus
  • Conducted Problem Solving Tests for the club members and been organizing case study competitions internally and for the campus as well
  • Worked on a Project with Consult Club of IIM Calcutta on a healthcare startup -Nirogyaan, helped then to expand on South Indian market. Did the STP and gave potential clients for them Tamil Nadu region

Share - growing a new generation of leaders

Vice-president and Learning Unit Manager

Feb 2020Apr 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Team: BITS Goa, India.
  • Learning Unit: Mobility
  • ShARE is an innovative start-up at the crossroad of education and consulting. The ShARE
  • Leadership Programme of Excellence is offered to students who have the potential to shape a
  • more sustainable and inclusive world. The programme helps students develop leadership and
  • corporate skills, learn how to work across borders, and collaborate on solving major societal
  • issues and grow into Do Well Do Good leaders.

Proi

Business Development Associate

Nov 2019Jul 2020 · 8 mos

  • Working on business strategies for PROI with an aim of developing an ​affordable hardware​, that will eliminate the use of expensive hardware units such as big PC setups, printers, etc., and a highly dynamic software​, which will provide our users with analytics and real-time data which will, in turn, help them optimize their purchase, inventory and increase their profits. These are done by employing Machine Learning, Data Analytics and Image Processing.

Worldquant

Research Consultant

Feb 2019Aug 2019 · 6 mos

  • 1) Achieved Global Rank of 11th and country rank of 2nd in the July edition of Alpha Quality Program.
  • 2) Attained Sharpe Ratio > 6 and Fitness > 4 .

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Master's degree

Aug 2025May 2027

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

BE - Bachelor of Engineering — Chemical Engineering

Jan 2018Jan 2022

UC Berkeley School of Information

Master's degree

Aug 2025May 2027

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