Kai “Sam” Gu

I’m Sam Gu, a computer science student at UT Austin The University of Texas at Austin B.S. in Computer Science, entering with junior standing. Finis-Welch full-ride scholar. Austin, TXSince 2026 and a five-time hackathon winner.

Lately I made Caret, Caret Press Tab in any macOS text field to finish the sentence, or to run the action it suggests. 1st place, Cursor x AITXSep 2026 Tab autocomplete for every text field on macOS, and BaseScanning, BaseScanning One walk with an iPhone tells a homeowner whether a Base Power battery fits on their wall. 1st, Most Commercializable, Base x AITXSep 2026 AR onboarding for Base Power.

Before that: lead TA for machine learning at MIT BWSI, MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute Lead teaching assistant for Cog*Works, the machine-learning course. I advised five capstone papers into IEEE MIT URTC. Lead TASummer 2026 a first-author paper on continual learning, and Sillion, Sillion The company I founded: an AI teaching assistant for K-12 classrooms that answers from live course data. Foundera16z speedrun2025 to 2026 which I founded.

Projects

  1. BaseScanning 1st Walk the wall by your meter with an iPhone to see if a home battery fits.
  2. Caret 1st Tab autocomplete for every macOS text field, and actions that run workflows.
  3. CogPortal Scores capstone code on hidden tests, however teams named their functions.
  4. FridgeLuck 2nd Photograph your fridge and get recipes; it asks only about what it’s unsure of.
  5. Connvo Matches you with someone worth a coffee chat, then hosts the video call.
  6. Sillion An AI teaching assistant for K-12 classes that answers from live Canvas data.
  7. LinkedUp 2nd Matches people at events by interests, then opens a video room to talk.
  8. StudyBuddy Winner Turns a syllabus into practice questions and tracks the concepts you miss.
  9. LuminAI A free AI bootcamp I co-founded, and the course site and grader it runs on.
  10. Curate A dating app for UT Austin students, live on the App Store.

Research

  1. The Einstellung Rigidity Index Measures how long a model clings to a shortcut after it stops helping.

Experience

  1. Amazon

    Incoming software engineering intern

    Amazon Future Engineer Scholar, one of about 200 nationwide.

  2. Base Power

    Incoming software engineering intern

    Whole-home battery backup across Texas. I built BaseScanning at their hackathon.

  3. Pax Historia (YC W26)

    Tech team, through Texas Convergent Forge

    A startup making an AI grand-strategy game.

  4. MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute

    Lead teaching assistant, Cog*Works

    Taught computer vision and vision-language models to 32 students, advised five papers into IEEE MIT URTC, and built CogPortal.

  5. UNT Active Machine Learning Lab

    Machine learning researcher

    First-authored the Einstellung Rigidity Index with Prof. Weishi Shi.

  6. StatOracle

    Software engineer intern

    Computer-vision soccer analytics with YOLOv8 and OpenCV; 15% better spatial precision than the legacy system.

  7. Carnegie Mellon WAVLab

    Research assistant

    Organized 1,000+ hours of audio in 50+ languages to train the XEUS speech encoder.

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