Ayaan Bagawan

Subject profile

Education

2025 – 2029 (expected)

Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru, Karnataka
B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering

2024

St. Paul's PU College, Belagavi
Class XII, 83%

2022

Bensons English Medium High School, Belagavi
Class X, 95.5%

Cover story

Experience

1. Oct 2026 – present

   Twilight

   Co-founder, web design and development studio (Oct 2026 – present)

   • Run a two-person studio that builds websites, web apps, mobile apps, UI designs and logos for small businesses; handle frontend design, client calls and project logistics
   • Designed the UI/UX and frontend for the first paid client, Hashtag Optical: a React site for a two-branch optical store with local SEO, WhatsApp buttons and Maps directions. It now brings the store new customers
   • Received 4–5 client enquiries before the studio's own website went live

   renderingtwilight.onlinehashtagoptical.in

Exhibits A–C

Projects

1. Exhibit A

   Bumblebee: Robo Soccer Bot

   CELESTAI'26 Robo Soccer finals · team of four · Apr 2026

   A Bluetooth-driven soccer robot that took a four-member team to the finals, out of 35+ teams.

   • Led the team to the Robo Soccer finals at CELESTAI'26, DSU's annual techfest (IEEE CASS and AESS SBCs), and drove the bot in matches
   • Designed the sheet-metal chassis
   • Built the electronics: an ESP32 over Bluetooth driving four 12V 1000 RPM Johnson geared motors through two dual motor drivers, on an 11.1V 3S LiPo

   Stack: ESP32Arduino (C++)Bluetooth

2. Exhibit B

   AI Desk Pet

   Solo build · ESP32-S3 · in progress

   A desk robot with an animated face. Still on the breadboard.

   • An animated face, running on an ESP32-S3
   • Planned: LLM voice chat
   • Planned: face tracking

   Stack: ESP32-S3

3. Exhibit C

   The Case File

   3D interactive portfolio · 2026

   The site you are standing in: a scroll-driven 3D portfolio set in a noir detective's office.

   • Lit in Blender Cycles and baked to lightmaps; flashlight, rain and neon run live in the browser
   • Recruiter Mode: the same content as a plain HTML résumé, 100 in all four Lighthouse categories
   • Every model, texture and font is CC0, CC-BY or OFL, and credited

   Stack: Next.jsReact Three FiberGSAPBlender

Exhibits D–E

Research

1. Exhibit D

   Stock Market Performance vs GDP Growth

   team of five · 2026 – present

   Do stock returns track and predict real GDP growth? Tested in the USA, India and Sri Lanka: a developed, an emerging and a frontier market.

   • Quarterly data, 2001–2025: correlation, OLS and pooled regression, Granger causality and Chow tests
   • A significant positive link in all three countries: markets lead GDP by one quarter, explaining up to 35% of US GDP-growth variation
   • The link grew 3–4 times stronger during the 2008 crisis and COVID-19

   Stack: ExcelPythonpandasstatsmodels

2. Exhibit E

   Data Privacy Research Paper

   with a faculty mentor at DSU · in progress

   A research paper on data privacy, co-authored with a faculty mentor.

   • Details confidential until submission

Prior record

Achievements

• 2nd place, Bharatiya Antariksh Hackathon 2025 (National Space Day), DSU: crop disease detection from satellite imagery
• JEE Main 2025: 91.38 percentile; qualified for JEE Advanced 2025
• Built Disha Edu, a learning platform for dyslexic students, and pitched it at several hackathons
• Competed in NASA Space Apps Challenge 2025, La Casa de Code: Techflix S2 and Prompt Wars (ACM DSU)

Tools found at the scene

Skills

• Programming and webC, Python, Verilog (basic), HTML, CSS, React, Next.js, React Three Fiber, GSAP
• HardwareESP32, Arduino, Soldering, FPGA prototyping (Xilinx Vivado), Multimeter, Oscilloscope, KiCad, Altium (learning)
• DesignFigma, Blender, Photoshop, Illustrator, Canva, Logo and brand design
• Data and AIExcel, PyTorch, LLM training basics, Prompt engineering
• WritingTechnical writing, Research reports, Literature review, Content writing
• LanguagesEnglish, Hindi, Urdu, Marathi

Papers on file

Certifications & workshops

Feb 2026

VLSI Digital Design Flow and FPGA Prototyping, STMicroelectronics, NIT Trichy
Vivado, Spartan-7, Verilog

Oct 2026

LLM Forge: From Code to Cognition, DSU
Built and trained a GPT-style model from scratch in PyTorch

Workshops

Drone building (Team Roxx, DSU); Git and GitHub (DSU)

Known associates

Leadership & activities

• Head Boy, Bensons English Medium High School: led school events, organised contests and workshops
• Stage Management, Cultural Team (CPA), DSU
• Member, Happiness Club, DSU
• Led teams at several hackathons