PLAYER ONE — HOUSTON, TX

Hi, I'm Huy.
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Computer science master's student at Rice University building AI, data, and accessibility systems across hackathons, research projects, and open-source work.

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ORBIT — MISSION COPILOT

Achievements unlocked

Milestones, awards, and recognitions collected along the way.

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9+ Hackathon Wins

2023–NOW — UNLOCKED

Nine or more hackathon wins across national and international competitions — spanning AI, accessibility, cloud computing, and data science domains.

PROJECTS7
HACKATHONS12
ACHIEVEMENTS8
FOLLOWERS7
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Google DeepMind × Kaggle

2025 — UNLOCKED

Won the Vibe Code with Gemini 2.0 Flash competition hosted by Google DeepMind in AI Studio on Kaggle — building a creative AI-powered application with Gemini's multimodal capabilities.

Winning writeup →
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Fifth Place — Google Cloud Next 2024

2024 — UNLOCKED

Placed Fifth at the 2024 Google Cloud Next hackathon — building a cloud-native solution leveraging GCP's AI and infrastructure services among hundreds of global teams.

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Kaggle Master

ONGOING — UNLOCKED

Reached Kaggle Master tier — top 1% globally across 12M+ users. Competed in ML/data science challenges spanning NLP, computer vision, and tabular data.

TIERMaster
STANDINGTop 1%
FOCUSML Competitions
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LeetCode Guardian

ONGOING — UNLOCKED

Achieved Guardian rank — contest peak rating 2332, top 0.46% globally. Consistent high performance in weekly and biweekly coding contests.

CONTEST RATING2332
GLOBAL RANK3,661
TOP %0.45%
SOLVED745
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Codeforces Candidate Master

ONGOING — UNLOCKED

Earned Candidate Master title on Codeforces with a peak rating of 1968 — placing in the top competitive programmers on the platform worldwide.

RATING1968
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COUNTRYUnited States
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Meta Hacker Cup 2025

2025 — UNLOCKED

Ranked in the Top 200 globally in Round 3 of Meta Hacker Cup 2025 — one of the most prestigious algorithmic programming competitions in the world.

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First Place — Rice Datathon 2026

2026 — UNLOCKED

Won First Place in the Expert Track (sponsored by OpenStax) at the 2026 Rice University Datathon — applying advanced ML techniques to an open-ended research problem.

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First Prize — Hook 'Em Hacks 2026

2026 — UNLOCKED

Won First Prize in the General Track at UT Austin's Hook 'Em Hacks 2026 with Be My Voice, an assistive AI communication system for stroke and ALS patients that restores clear, expressive speech.

Winning project →

Quests

7 CLEARED ★

Things I've built — from hackathon experiments to research tools. Orbit says: start with the cleared ones.

EduTag preview ✓ CLEARED QUEST 01
PythonGeminiEducation

EduTag

We're working on a project that aligns standard codes with textbook content by looking at how they're defined.

Devpost GitHub Writeup Video
CursorGPT preview ✓ CLEARED QUEST 02
Gemini Live APIGoogle ADKFastAPI

CursorGPT

Point-and-speak browser assistant where hand gestures provide the where, voice provides the what, and AI handles the rest. Winner at HackHCC: Code Runners.

Devpost GitHub Video
Be My Voice preview ✓ CLEARED QUEST 03
ElevenLabsFastAPIAccessibility

Be My Voice

Assistive communication system for stroke and ALS patients that repairs fragmented speech and turns live emotional signals into expressive audio using the patient's own cloned voice.

Devpost GitHub
EleVox preview ✓ CLEARED QUEST 04
PythonReactBioacoustics

EleVox

Brings elephant communication back to life from noisy recordings, recovering signals tied to behavior, stress, and movement that would otherwise stay hidden.

Devpost GitHub Video
DataForce preview ✓ CLEARED QUEST 05
Claude CodeFastAPIPredictive ML

DataForce

Turns messy enterprise data into a live insight layer and a deployed predictive model, making analytics and forecasting accessible without a dedicated data science team.

Devpost GitHub Video
ThreeByte preview ✓ CLEARED QUEST 06
Next.jsSupabaseNonprofit

ThreeByte

Open-source case management platform for nonprofits, track clients, cases and finances in one place, and keep it affordable for organizations with limited budgets.

Devpost GitHub Live Site
WALL-E preview ✓ CLEARED QUEST 07
BCIRoboticsAccessibility

WALL-E

No mouse. No keyboard. No hands. Use your brain signal and your eyes to control a 3D printed robotic arm in real time. We turned thought into fabrication.

Devpost GitHub Video
BIGQUERY AI
QUEST 08
GCPBigQuery AIAnalytics

Returns & Refunds Intelligence

Google Cloud hackathon project using BigQuery AI to analyze returns and refunds data, surface operational patterns, and turn business questions into faster insights.

CV
LyoText preview QUEST 09
EEGGeminiFastAPI

LyoText

When speech and movement fail, thought remains. LyoText transforms brain signals into meaningful communication using EEG and AI.

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BureauBuddy preview QUEST 10
ReactPythonGemini

BureauBuddy

An AI tool built to make complex government documents more accessible and understandable to the general population.

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TaskForce preview QUEST 11
ClaudeFirebaseExtension

TaskForce

A Claude-powered browser extension and administration dashboard that helps team managers keep members focused and accountable.

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Aidify preview QUEST 12
WixAccessibilitySocial Impact

Aidify

We're Aidify: aid people with technology. We don't just build platforms, we build possibilities.

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AKIRA
QUEST 13
TypeScriptJavaScriptAccessibility

Akira

Browser extension and web app that makes online classrooms more accessible, providing real-time accommodations and support tools for students with disabilities.

GitHub
CHRONOVR
QUEST 14
TypeScriptGenerative AIEducation

ChronoVR

An educational tool that uses generative AI to reconstruct historical sites from archaeological data, letting students walk through them and talk with NPCs about daily life.

GitHub
SOLAR FLARE
QUEST 15
PythonData ScienceML

Solar Flare Prediction

Data science research applying machine learning models to predict solar flare events from NASA datasets, with feature engineering and classification experiments on astrophysics data.

GitHub

Side quests

KAGGLE RESEARCH

Kaggle competition research — active runs first, then completed challenges.

JUN 2026 LIVE
NVIDIA Nemotron Model Reasoning Challenge
Advancing reasoning methods with open NVIDIA Nemotron models on a novel benchmark for general knowledge and deep learning evaluation.
ReasoningOpen ModelsDeep Learning
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JUL 2026 LIVE
The 2026 NeuroGolf Championship
Designing compact neural networks for ARC-AGI style image transformations, with emphasis on optimization and efficient model behavior.
Neural NetworksOptimizationARC-AGI
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NOV 2026 LIVE
ARC Prize 2026 - ARC-AGI-2
Building approaches for novel reasoning tasks where models must infer patterns from small examples rather than memorized data.
Artificial IntelligenceReasoningGeneralization
Kaggle →
OCT 2022 DONE ✓
JPX Tokyo Stock Exchange Prediction
Explored market prediction workflows for Japanese equities using tabular financial data and time-aware feature engineering.
FinanceTabular MLForecasting
Kaggle →
DEC 2022 DONE ✓
DFL - Bundesliga Data Shootout
Worked with video-based sports data to identify plays from match footage and connect temporal signals with structured outcomes.
Video MLSports AnalyticsComputer Vision
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JUL 2023 DONE ✓
2023 Kaggle AI Report
Contributed research writing on the state of machine learning and deep learning systems across the 2023 AI landscape.
AI ResearchDeep LearningWriting
Kaggle →
MAR 2024 DONE ✓
Optiver - Trading at the Close
Modeled short-horizon stock movements from high-volume tabular market data using feature engineering and validation design.
Market MLTabular DataPrediction
Kaggle →
APR 2024 DONE ✓
PII Data Detection
Developed NLP approaches for detecting and removing personally identifiable information from educational text data.
NLPEducationText Classification
Kaggle →
APR 2024 DONE ✓
LLM Prompt Recovery
Investigated prompt reconstruction for transformed text, combining language modeling intuition with NLP evaluation constraints.
LLMsPromptingNLP
Kaggle →
JUN 2024 DONE ✓
AI Mathematical Olympiad
Researched LLM-based mathematical reasoning with synthetic data generation, chain-of-thought prompting, and fine-tuning workflows.
Math ReasoningFine-TuningCoT
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NOV 2024 DONE ✓
ARC Prize 2024
Explored abstraction and reasoning tasks that test generalization from small examples rather than standard large-data training.
ARCReasoningAI Systems
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JAN 2025 DONE ✓
Google - Unlock Global Communication with Gemma
Built and tuned Gemma model variants around language and culture-specific communication tasks.
GemmaLanguageText Generation
Kaggle →
MAR 2025 DONE ✓
FIDE & Google Efficient Chess AI Challenge
Developed resource-aware chess agents, balancing strategy quality with strict efficiency constraints.
Chess AIAgentsEfficiency
Kaggle →
SEP 2025 DONE ✓
BigQuery AI - Building the Future of Data
Built AI solutions with BigQuery across multimodal, tabular, and text data for applied cloud analytics workflows.
BigQuery AIMultimodalCloud Data
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Skill tree

Tools and methods I use across AI products, Kaggle research, accessibility systems, and full-stack prototypes.

Story mode

Education & experience — the campaign so far.

01
EDUCATION

Master's in Computer Science

Rice University — Houston, Texas

Grad: May 2027

Specialization: Machine Learning & Data Science

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EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

University of Houston — Houston, Texas

GPA: 3.74
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EXPERIENCE

Software Developer

Hackathon Projects & Open Source

2023 – Present

Built and shipped multiple full-stack applications and research prototypes across AI, accessibility, and robotics domains. Competed in Hacklytics, Opportunity Hack, and other national hackathons.

Developed LyoText BCI system using EEG signal processing and Gemini AI
Built Akira accessibility extension deployed for online classroom environments
Shipped ChronoVR generative AI educational tool using historical datasets
PythonTypeScriptAI/MLFull-Stack
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EXPERIENCE

Research & Course Projects

University of Houston — COSC Dept.

2021 – Present

Applied computer science fundamentals through research-oriented coursework in data science, operating systems, and software engineering, tackling real-world datasets and systems design challenges.

Solar flare prediction using NASA datasets and classification algorithms
Systems programming in C++ covering process scheduling and IPC
Full-stack software engineering projects in C# and JavaScript
C++C#Data Science

Party up?

I'm open to research collaborations, engineering roles, and interesting projects. Whether you have an opportunity in mind or just want to connect — reach out!

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