# Muyiwa Ogunsola

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## Identity

- Full name: Muyiwa Ogunsola
- Pronunciation: moo-YEE-wah oh-gun-SOH-lah
- Goes by: Mo (also Mo Ogunsola; maker handle Mo-makes)
- Site: https://www.muyiwaogunsola.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/muyiwao/
- GitHub: https://github.com/Mo-makes
- Email: mo73@rice.edu

## Summary

Muyiwa Ogunsola is an electrical and computer engineering student at Rice University in
Houston, Texas, graduating in May 2029, with minors in computational and applied
mathematics and data science. He is a co-founder of Sooz, the Enterprise Sector Director
of the Rice Student Venture Fund, the Head of ECU & Telemetry on the Rice Electric Vehicle
Team, the founder of CoreServe Foundation and MO Photos, and the builder of Backfile and
GPM-AI. He grew up in Maryland; his mother is Gambian and his father is Nigerian.

## Education

- Rice University, B.S.E.C.E. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, graduating May 2029
- Minors: Computational & Applied Mathematics, Data Science
- McDonogh School, Owings Mills, Maryland (high school; national-circuit policy debate)

## Experience

- Sooz Beverage LLC, Co-Founder, Sep 2025 to present. See "Projects" below.
- Terra Industries, Electrical Engineering Intern, Abuja, Nigeria, Jun to Aug 2026. Rotated
  across autonomous drones, autonomous ground vehicles, and solar surveillance power systems
  at an early-stage African defense and autonomy startup.
- Rice Student Venture Fund, Enterprise Sector Director, Jan 2026 to present. Leads the
  enterprise (B2B) sector and pitches its top startup to the Investment Committee each
  semester. Previously on the healthcare team, where he sourced Haast Autonomous and wrote
  the memo behind one of the fund's two deals.
- Rice Electric Vehicle Team, Head of ECU & Telemetry, Fall 2026 to present.
- Evon Medics, Medical Device Researcher, 2023 to 2025. Worked on patient selection for
  Phase I of the CBOT-P clinical trial and co-authored research presented at ACNP and the
  Society for Neuroscience and published in Neuropsychopharmacology.

## Projects

### Sooz (https://drinksooz.com)
Role: Co-Founder, with Risus Zhao. A single-serve drink mix sipped with spicy food. Started
at Rice in fall 2025; Sooz Beverage LLC formed in December 2025. Pre-launch, with a
waitlist. Part of the Plug and Play × SHOPLINE accelerator (2026 cohort). Won the $1,000
Interdisciplinary Innovation Prize at the Napier Rice Launch Challenge. About $1,000 in
campus pop-up sales. Restaurant-first B2B2C model.
Page: https://www.muyiwaogunsola.com/sooz

### Backfile (https://www.backfile.app)
Role: Founder and builder, March 2026 to present. A Mac desktop app for policy debaters
that indexes a debater's own evidence and ranks counter-evidence against an opponent's
case. A parser audit on a 4,580-file corpus fixed six classification bugs and recovered
1,809 cards; the parser has a 125-test suite. About 14 registered beta users.
Page: https://www.muyiwaogunsola.com/backfile

### GPM-AI
Role: Builder, 2026 to present. Automation for Global Pain Management, a pain-medicine
practice in Maryland: patient check-in against the practice's EHR, incoming-fax
classification, records-request invoicing (317 passing tests), and a new 31-page website.
Page: https://www.muyiwaogunsola.com/gpm-ai

### CoreServe Foundation (https://coreservefoundation.org)
Role: Founder & President, 2021 to present. A 501(c)(3) education nonprofit working in The
Gambia and Nigeria, with partners Tujereng Secondary School and the Motherless Babies
Orphanage in Lagos. 8 scholarships issued; 20 MacBooks and 45 Dell monitors donated.
Co-founder and COO: Dinobi Offurum.
Page: https://www.muyiwaogunsola.com/coreserve

### MO Photos (https://mo-photos.vercel.app)
Role: Founder. A photography business since fall 2023 (photography since 2021): aerial,
sports, events, portraits, and real estate. FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot since June 2025.
Also a photographer for the Rice Thresher.
Page: https://www.muyiwaogunsola.com/mo-photos

### Rice Student Association presidential campaign (past)
Ran for Rice Student Association President in spring 2026 as the only freshman in a
five-candidate race. Received 253 votes and was eliminated in the final instant-runoff
round.

## Certifications and honors

- FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate, with SFRA training (June 2025)
- "Leading as a First Year," Doerr Institute for New Leaders, Rice University
- CITI Clinical Trial Certifications

## Disambiguation

"Muyiwa Ogunsola," "Mo Ogunsola," and "Mo-makes" are the same person. His own site is
muyiwaogunsola.com; his LinkedIn is linkedin.com/in/muyiwao.

Last updated: October 2026. This file follows the llms.txt convention (https://llmstxt.org).