Suveen Ellawela
Founding Engineer at Cortex AI (YC F25)Cortex AI (YC F25), where I work hands-on with physical robots across the full robotics stack, from building teleoperation and data collection systems to robot learning, evaluation, and real-world deployment.
Previously, studied Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore, built web agents at TinyFishTinyFish ($47M series A), did exchange at Stanford MS&E and co-founded FoloUpFoloUp - Open source voice interviews for hiring (1.2k Github stars).
Love building, running AI experiments, learning new things and travelling to new places.
Recently I gave a talk about full stack robotics at AI Engineer SingaporeAI Engineer Singapore. Have a look at my talk here.
I build stuff. Software and hardware. And I take it a bit seriously.
FoloUp — Open source AI powered voice interviews. 1.2k GitHub stars, 600+ interviews conducted.
DrawDash — Proactive agentic whiteboards. First image tab-completion demo.
Activity Bar — macOS menu bar app tracking keystrokes, clicks, scrolling, voice input, and coding tool activity.
Multi-Round Avalon Agents — AI agents playing social deception games. 188 games simulated with persistent memory.
Codenames AI — Codenames, but AI plays AI. 7k+ views, #7 on Hacker News.
AI See — Wearable assistive device for visually impaired. Multimodal LLMs, RAG, and BLE.
TimeFold — Turn photo albums into 3D immersive memories using Gaussian splats.
Photo2Movie — Convert photos to video montage under a minute. Built in 2 hours.
Mintyard — Gaming arenas for NFT collections. Microsoft for Startups program.
Bera Tiles — Sri Lankan drums X Piano Tiles. 750+ downloads, 130+ 5-star reviews.
Work
Other Stuff
Here's me during a hike in Vietnam.
Recently, I walked across Singapore!
Follow my instagram page where I share some photos I take from my phone and my papershoot camera.
I am trying to learn these days.
I like anything competitive.
Features
2026 May - AI Engineer Singapore - Full-Stack Robotics: Lessons from Building Across the Robotics Stack [Talk]
2026 Apr - Trust, Lies, and Long Memories: Emergent Social Dynamics and Reputation in Multi-Round Avalon with LLM Agents [Preprint (arXiv)]
2026 Mar - Talk on AI Agents Playing Avalon at Singapore AI & Robotics Meetup [Talk]
2025 Dec - DrawDash: Proactive Agentic Whiteboards [Preprint (arXiv)]
2025 Mar - Strivers Chat Podcast [Podcast]
2024 Sep - AI + Global Health 24hr Hackathon in SF [Hackathon Win]
2024 Jun - 50km walk across Singapore [https://walkacrossacountry.com]
2023 Nov - Can AI Models Summarize Your Diary Entries? Investigating Utility of Abstractive Summarization for Autobiographical Text [Publication]
2022 Jul - Exploring the future [News paper article]
2021 Aug - Recognizing Reid Avenue's Finest [News paper article]
2017 Jan - 'Pentathlon': Five rounds, one finale [News paper article]
2017 Jan - SIRASA Pentathlon Quiz Competition 2016 [Online article]