Mehul Agarwal

Founder

San Francisco, California, United States2 yrs experience

Key Highlights

Co-founded a successful AI filmmaking platform.
Managed a community of 950,000+ during the pandemic.
Developed generative models for 3D videogame assets.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Media & Entertainment and Gaming professional with strong expertise in AI and Machine Learning.

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Skills

Core Skills

StartupsDeep LearningMultimodal Machine LearningMachine LearningGenerative ModelsCommunity ManagementStartup MentoringComputer VisionComputer SystemsAndroid DevelopmentBlockchain Development

Other Skills

Deep Reinforcement LearningDataset CurationBusiness DevelopmentTeaching3D Asset CreationFundraisingSocial MediaUser StoriesSemantic SegmentationActive LearningDatabase ManagementSmart ContractsDecentralized LedgersNLPFunctional Programming

About

Mehul Agarwal, silently working on koyal.ai, an Agentic AI film making platform. Formerly an Innovation Associate at SAI Group & JazzX, CMU graduate student in Machine Learning and co-founder of Retcon, a GenAI based platform for 3D videogame assets. My research focuses on Multimodal ML, Computer Vision, and Deep Learning. I also do standup comedy and co-founded the popular Facebook group Zoom Memes for Self Quaranteens during the pandemic, boasting 950,000+ members

Experience

2 yrs

Total Experience

10 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Koyal

Founder & CEO

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

Agentic GenAI Filmmaking at https://koyal.ai (backed by Y Combinator & major production houses in Hollywood & Bollywood)
Turn your script or audio into engaging films with consistent characters and storylines.

StartupsDeep Reinforcement LearningMultimodal Machine LearningDeep LearningComputer Vision

Jazzx ai

Innovation Associate

Jul 2024 – Mar 2025 · 8 mos · Hybrid

Founding Engineering + Curation of datasets as a core competency
Multimodal LLM Agents, Agentic RAG, and other buzzwords

Multimodal Machine LearningDataset Curation

Saigroup

Innovation Associate

Jun 2024 – Mar 2025 · 9 mos · Los Altos, California, United States · Hybrid

• Fusion of ML Engineering & Business Development

Machine LearningBusiness Development

Carnegie mellon university school of computer science

2 roles

Lecturer & Lead TA, Multimodal Machine Learning

Aug 2023 – May 2024 · 9 mos · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · On-site

Presented core concepts in multimodal machine learning to masters & PhD students
Taught topics including multimodal representation learning, modality alignment, translation, generation, fusion, and co-learning

Multimodal Machine LearningTeaching

Head Teaching Assistant, 17-356: Software Engineering for Startups

Jan 2023 – May 2023 · 4 mos · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · On-site

Guided students in developing tech startups using user stories, sprints, data models, and Web APIs
Mentored students in creating pitch decks and Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) for their startups

Community ManagementFundraising

Retcon

Co-founder & CTO

Aug 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Developed custom generative diffusion models to create 3-D videogame assets from text prompts
Trained image classification for content moderation
Winner - McGinnis Venture Competition at Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship

Generative Models3D Asset Creation

Blue river technology

CV/ML Intern

May 2022 – Aug 2022 · 3 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States · On-site

Developed novel datasets for Semantic Segmentation & Depth Models for a Self Driving Tractor
Conducted an Active Learning Experiment with new metrics for unsupervised model performance
Launched the first Fully Autonomous Vehicle (L5) in the world

Startup MentoringUser Stories

Carnegie mellon university

2 roles

Head Teacher, 98-291 Introduction to Android Development (StuCo)

Aug 2021 – Dec 2021 · 4 mos · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · On-site

Taught app development in Android, Database management in Firebase and building a chat service
Utilized SDKs such as Google Maps to enhance student learning experience

Computer SystemsTeaching

Lead Teaching Assistant, 15-213/18-213: Introduction to Computer Systems (ICS)

Jan 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · On-site

Led development of exams, recitations, and assignments for Introduction to Computer Systems.
Covered topics including machine-level code, optimizing compilers, computer arithmetic, memory management, networking, and concurrent computation.

Semantic SegmentationActive LearningComputer Vision

Enya labs

Software Engineering & Research Intern

May 2021 – Dec 2021 · 7 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid

Developed Automated Market Makers to minimize impermanent loss & boost fees for LPs by comparing token prices on and off-chain.
Constructed Extensible Smart Contracts on Solidity for off-chain computation in decentralized ledgers

Android DevelopmentDatabase Management

Gan.ai

Software Engineer Intern

Dec 2020 – Feb 2021 · 2 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · Remote

Explored NLP and Computer Vision techniques for prosody transfer, voice cloning, and lip syncing in multimodal voice dubbing
Researched unsupervised speech decomposition & generation algorithms like SpeechSplit for transforming speakers' content, timbre, rhythm, and pitch

Smart ContractsDecentralized LedgersBlockchain Development

Caringresearch

Research And Development Intern

May 2020 – Aug 2020 · 3 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · Remote

Enhanced patient data security by optimizing the EAST algorithm for on-browser text detection using TensorFlow.js, Tesseract, and OpenCV
Collaborated with the team to compress and prune the algorithm for efficient and accurate scene text identification

NLPComputer VisionMultimodal Machine Learning

Zoom memes for self quaranteens

Founder

Mar 2020 – Dec 2023 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Remote

Managed a community of 950,000+ college students over 100 countries during COVID-19 pandemic
Raised over $5000+ for COVID relief, awareness, support for Stop AAPI Hate, mail-in voting, BLM
Covered by NY Times, The Atlantic, SF Weekly, The Verge, TechCrunch, & many international outlets
Part of peer reviewed studies on generational humor, identity, and conflict in the 2020's