kimichen

Kimi Chen

Hi! I'm Kimi, a Data Science and Applied Mathematics double major at UC San Diego with a minor in Cognitive Science. I bridge the gap between research and product, focusing on Computer Vision, World Models, and Generative AI. I’m passionate about engineering new architectures and building tools that actually solve problems. (Yes, I'm named after Kimi Räikkönen, the 2007 Formula 1 world champion. Not sure if it says much about me, but it's a great conversation starter.)
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Email: hello@kimichen.net

Selected Projects

Autonomous Aerial Vision System

Vision stack for autonomous drones to identify targets, map terrain, and make decisions without human intervention.

Context: Competing globally to build autonomous planes for search-and-rescue missions.

Stack: C++, YOLO v11, ONNX Runtime, OpenCV, Jetson Orin Nano, ArduPilot SITL, Python

Result: Real-time aerial target detection and geolocation with synthetic data validation pipeline.

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File Order Randomizer

A native extension for Adobe Premiere Pro to randomize clip order, solving a major workflow bottleneck.

Context: Video editors had no native way to randomize clips in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Stack: Adobe CEP, ExtendScript, HTML, CSS

Result: 8,000+ users, 4.9-star rating on Adobe Exchange.

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Self-Fed Memory: A "Second Brain" AI

A personalized RAG assistant that ingests notes and conversations to act as a "Second Brain" with perfect recall.

Context: Addressing the limitations of human memory and context retention.

Stack: FastAPI, LangChain, Pinecone, Docker, Streamlit, Supabase

Result: AI assistant with high-recall personal memory using time-weighted RAG and preference learning.

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Disinformation Detection: Benchmarking Deep Learning Models

Comparative benchmarking of LSTMs vs. Transformers for fake news detection, highlighting generalization gaps.

Context: Research on deep learning robustness.

Stack: PyTorch, LSTM, GloVe, DistilBERT, GPT-4 Turbo

Result: 99.43% accuracy on in-distribution data, exposed generalization gap in pre-LLM models.

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Experience

Research Assistant at UC San Diego — Prof. Zhiting Hu's Lab

Mar 2025 - Present

Computer Vision Lead at Triton Unmanned Aerial Systems

Sep 2024 - Present

Data Science Intern at Lanner Inc.

May - Aug 2023

Web Developer Intern at Silverline Educational Advisory Services

Apr - Nov 2023