Kevin Mao

I co-founded this startup with the goal of democratizing fine art by lowering the barrier of entry. With our app, 2500+ users discovered and learned about artworks tailored for their tastes. We received $2000 in funding and office space from the Columbia Startup Lab.

Columbia Virtual Campus helped create a virtual community for Columbia students during the COVID pandemic. As an engineering lead, I started a new initiative to build a website where students could sign up for mock coding interviews with upperclassmen.

LionBase was a student-founded company that helped NYC companies overcome challenges by building data-driven applications for their specific needs. In Spring 2019, we developed a dashboard to help a music licensing company better manage their database of millions of songs. We went on to win the 2020 Columbia Venture Competition.

HealthHacks was a two-day hackathon with that inspired creative hardware and software solutions to real-world healthcare problems. I co-coordinated it with a committee at Columbia’s Biomedical Engineering Society, bringing in 50+ hackers and $1000+ in prizes.

In this research project, we designed and pitched the X-pouch, our solution to the lack of safe medication disposal methods, a facet of the opioid crisis. We pitched to a board of engineering professors and won $2500 in grants to continue our research.