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Carl Vincent Kho

Computational Scientist • HCI:AI Researcher • Builder

Professional snapshot

Role Organization Focus
Research Affiliate (Pending) MIT Media Lab (Fluid Interfaces) Developing Somach: A silent speech interface recreating Alter Ego with commodity hardware.
Software Reliability Engineer Dell Technologies Reduced failure diagnosis of 100TB+ clusters from hours to <5 minutes via AI Fault Injection.
AI Software Engineer Edgur Promoted to AI Lead; increased user engagement by 20% via Vector Search algorithms.
Team Captain / Speaker Marigondon NHS / Microsoft Led team from last place to World Finals (Hungary); Sole student speaker for 20,000+ viewers.

Academic research

  • Somach: Silent Speech Interface: Redefining HCI by capturing "subvocalization" using ~$30 hardware; recreating MIT's Alter Ego using commodity heart sensors.
  • Padayon Ko: Semantic Search for Scholarships: Implemented high-dimensional vector embeddings to match student profiles with funding, securing $95,050+ for myself, the first user.
  • Pareto-Optimal Models for Low-Cost EMG Control: Authored TechRxiv preprint proving Random Forest viability for ESP32 bio-control (Pending arXiv).
  • Hyperbolic Infrastructure Agent: Won Coinbase Hackathon + $1,000 commission for "Rent 8 H100s" voice bot; 20x provisioning speedup.

Education

  • B.Sc. Computational Sciences (AI), Minerva University (2022–2026)
  • Pedagogy: Global Rotation (7 cities) & Active Learning Seminars.
  • Partial Scholarship Recipient: $95,050 total awarded (1.9% acceptance rate)

Awards

  • Omi MCP Hackathon Grand Prize ($25,000): Winner for 'Omi Wrap', an AI necklace life summary app.
  • Google AI for Impact Winner ($8,000): Top 1 of 22,900+ developers globally for 'Padayon Ko'.
  • Webflow Times Square Highlight: Featured on NYC Billboard (Community of 3.5M designers).
  • World Robotics Olympiad International Finalist: Represented Philippines vs 73 nations in Hungary (2019).
  • National Science Fair Grand Champion: Telemedicine AI achieved 92% diagnostic accuracy in hospital trials.
  • PH100 under 30 (2025): Named one of the Philippines' Top 100 emerging innovators.

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Read Resume — I study in 7 countries for my ComSci + NeuroSci Undergrad degree.

Carl K

i somehow ended up in NYC's tallest billboard 🤷‍♂️ I guess it's because of my sob story

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  1. padayon-ko padayon-ko Public

    Google AI for Impact '24 *Winner* / RedBull Basement '24 Top 3. Padayon Ko helps Filipinos secure scholarships from start to finish.

    Jupyter Notebook

  2. 25MNRV_A-Star-Micromouse_CS152 25MNRV_A-Star-Micromouse_CS152 Public

    Simulates a robotic mouse finding the optimal path through a maze using A* algorithm, with real-time visualization and interactive controls for educational purposes with Pygame..

    Python

  3. BnB-AdeAfd BnB-AdeAfd Public

    Board Game Digitization. Civic Partner in Berlin '24.

    JavaScript

  4. openai/openai-cookbook openai/openai-cookbook Public

    Examples and guides for using the OpenAI API

    Jupyter Notebook 70.9k 11.9k

  5. HyperbolicLabs/Hyperbolic-AgentKit HyperbolicLabs/Hyperbolic-AgentKit Public

    Python 111 62

  6. MendietaProject/Mendieta-SW MendietaProject/Mendieta-SW Public

    JavaScript 1 2