I'm Kai, a grad student at UT Austin working across engineering and design.
I've built at EA, NASA, Merck, Google’s Software Product Sprint, the National Park Service, at school, and in personal projects.
selected projects & case studies:
- Good Design Award-Winning service design research at NASA and a published case study with the Service Design Network.
- Internal design system documentation and research for EA Help.
- A lunar rover prototype & mission concept to explore regolith and volatile resources in shadowed craters.
- An ML research project to debias toxicity detection models by reducing identity- and profanity-based false positives.
- A public digital garden using Quartz and React.
- A procedural city generator in Verse and UEFN.
- A parallel k-means implementation in CUDA.
history:jobs:
Service Design Intern, Electronic Arts, 2024
SWE Intern, National Park Service, 2023-2024
UX Intern, Merck, 2023
SWE Intern, Merck, 2022-2023
Service Design Intern, NASA, 2022
education:
Master of Science in Computer Science, UT Austin, 2025-2026
Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, Rutgers University, 2021-2024
other things:
NASA L’SPACE NPWEE, 2023
Google’s Software Product Sprint, 2022
NASA L’SPACE Mission Concept Academy, 2022
hobbies:
games, music production, graphics, basketball, creative coding.
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