Portfolio · Class of 2027 · Calabasas, CA

Myron LaiTrustworthy systems for people in high-stakes moments.

Student researcher and developer working across civic technology, biomedical AI, and disaster resilience. Each section below is a visual reading of one section of the résumé: the same facts, arranged so their shape is visible.

Civic & geospatial Biomedical AI Disaster & environment myronport.myrondomain.com projectmyronl@gmail.com
4research programs & internships, 2024–27
8sole-built or co-founded projects
2patents: 1 granted (Taiwan), 1 pending (U.S.)
1IEEE conference abstract, sole author
553registered users on EvacuationHub
260+verified service hours
Section 1

Education

Viewpoint School · Aug 2023 – May 2027
4.64/4.0weighted GPA
3.97/4.0unweighted GPA
1560SAT, single sitting · 1570 superscore
Section scores on the 200–800 scale. Math sits at the ceiling; the superscore adds ten points to English.
Section 2

Research programs & internships

6 programs · Summer 2024 → May 2027

Two summers of foundations, then three concurrent research positions running through senior year.

Bars fade where the engagement is ongoing. The marker shows today.
Research internJun 2026 – present

Humanistic GIS Laboratory, University of Washington

Built the surface-temperature layer for the Seattle City Light GIS Mapping Hub in Dr. Bo Zhao's lab, pairing grid-restoration records since 2011 with the CDC Social Vulnerability Index. Deployed to the city government's internal site.

2011→outage history mapped
SVIequity lens
Student researcherJun 2026 – present

Data Center Water & Energy Study, Carnegie Institution

With Dr. Lorenzo Rosa. Inventoried Los Angeles-area data centers and modeled water and energy demand, plus grid impact, for those with sufficient data.

67facilities inventoried
42modeled
Summer internSummer 2026

Stanford AIMI, Center for AI in Medicine & Imaging

Faster R-CNN pneumonia detection and chest X-ray localization pipeline in PyTorch, trained locally on an RTX 4080 Super under strict submission limits. Team Falcons.

3rdoverall of 7 teams
1stKaggle leaderboard
Academic-year internSep 2026 – May 2027

Stanford AIMI, Department of Radiology

Mentored research on user-centric AI for assisting the visually impaired under Lilian Chen, Stanford School of Medicine.

Robotics trackSummer 2024

Engineering Summer Academy at Penn (ESAP)

Autonomous recorder-playing machine in C++ with custom PCB layouts and mechatronic sensors.

A+final grade
Program IIISummer 2024

U.S. Army GEMS, Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos

Research curriculum across neuroscience, biochemistry, biomechanics, and physics; cross-language algorithms, rule-based digital-circuit prototypes, and VR/human-agent interaction.

Section 3

Publications

IEEE GHTC · May – Jul 2026

Reviewer in May, presenter in July, at the same IEEE conference.

Sole author & presenterJul 2026

Wearable HRV-based cardiac-safety monitoring for SCAD patients

IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference · accepted abstract

Gradient-boosted classifier evaluated with leave-one-subject-out validation on ECG windows from a 22-subject PhysioNet dataset.

95.6%LOSO accuracy
~25,711ECG windows
22subjects
Invited peer reviewerMay 2026

Technical review, IEEE GHTC

Methodological quality and algorithmic soundness

Appointed to evaluate manuscripts in humanitarian technology; reviewed papers in AI healthcare and civic technology.

3manuscripts reviewed
Section 4

Patents

2 filings · 2 jurisdictions
U.S. patent applicationPending
No. 19/708,837 · filed Jun 2026

Personalized cardiovascular resilience & physiological monitoring system

Grew out of the SCAD cardiac-safety monitor: Polar H10 ECG over BLE, custom Android app, on-device classifier.

Taiwan utility modelGranted
No. M676830 · Nov 2025

Smart AI helmet real-time environmental perception & description system

The wearable half of AccessMate: a 360° embedded helmet that describes surroundings to the rider. A U.S. provisional application is also pending.

Section 5

Innovative projects

8 projects · Oct 2024 → present

Three domains, one question: when is it safe, and for whom does the answer fail?

Civic & public safetyLumina · AccessMate · LA wildfire equity dataset
Biomedical AIHRV cardiac-safety monitor · Neuroneedle
Disaster & environmentRiskMesh · EnviGuard · climate station

Lumina

Sole developer · pedestrian safety navigation
Apr 2026 –

iOS and web app scoring streets on public crime data, with a separate XGBoost model per region behind a FastAPI backend. Found that heavier police presence produces more reports regardless of activity, and documented the bias.

XGBoostFastAPIiOSweb
470kcrime-data segments

EnviGuard

Sole developer · multilingual environmental health
Jul 2026 –

Turns local air-quality and extreme-heat data into plain-language safety guidance, with live time-series readings from the backyard station for block-level recommendations.

time serieshyperlocal
6languages

Backyard Climate Observation Station

Sole builder
Jul 2026 –

Raspberry Pi station assembled from discrete sensors, logging continuously since August 2026. It is the data layer under EnviGuard.

Raspberry PiPM1–PM10CO₂UVwindrain
8measured variables
Aug 2026online since

Neuroneedle

Co-founder · depression-biomarker wearable
Sep 2025 –

Non-invasive microneedle biosensing patch for continuous tracking of cortisol and serotonin, with a B2B go-to-market and fundraising strategy.

microneedlebiosensingB2B
Conrad Innovator2025–26 Conrad Challenge

RiskMesh

Sole developer · compound disaster-risk prediction
Jun 2025 –

Models cascading Southern California disasters with an XGBoost stacked ensemble and SHAP; real-time FastAPI and PostgreSQL backend on live feeds.

XGBoostSHAPFastAPIPostgreSQL
4live feeds: NASA FIRMS, NOAA, USGS, EIA

Wearable HRV Cardiac-Safety Monitor

Founder & lead developer · for SCAD patients
Jun 2025 –

Polar H10 ECG over BLE into a custom Android app; gradient-boosted classifier on 25 engineered features. 1st Place Applied Computational Science and Grand Award Finalist at LACSEF 2026; ISEF 2026 1st Alternate.

Polar H10BLEAndroidgradient boosting
95.6%LOSO accuracy
25engineered features

LA County Wildfire Equity Dataset

Sole author · Harvard Dataverse
Aug 2026

Open dataset and interactive map intersecting CAL FIRE 2025 fire perimeters with ACS median household income, in an equal-area projection (EPSG:3310). doi:10.7910/DVN/2R57BG, CC0 1.0.

CAL FIREACSEPSG:3310CC0
~6,600census block groups

AccessMate

Developer & inventor · AI accessibility & smart helmet
Oct 2024

Real-time computer-vision accessibility app paired with a wearable 360° embedded helmet. Taiwan patent granted, U.S. provisional pending, Congressional App Recognition Award.

computer visionembedded360°
M676830Taiwan utility model
Section 6

Leadership & community impact

5 roles · Sep 2023 → present
553registered users, EvacuationHub
260+verified tutoring hours, StudyPlatform
60+attendees, largest World Ready Week session to date
1stAI club at Viewpoint, founded 2025
All five roles overlap through 2025–26; the AI panel is the one point event.
  • Aug 2025 –
    EvacuationHub, sole full-stack developer
    Disaster-response platform; backend re-engineered to FastAPI/Supabase to cut API latency. 2nd Place Congressional App Challenge CA-26, 5th globally at WAICY 2025, 4th at ACP MetroCode 2025.
  • Jun 2025 –
    StudyPlatform, founder & tutor
    Free peer-tutoring platform; Gold President's Volunteer Service Award.
  • Sep 2025 –
    Viewpoint School AI Club, founder & president
    Weekly technical workshops on generative AI, ethics, and ML projects.
  • Sep 2023 –
    FIRST LEGO League, coach, mentor & volunteer
    Coached youth teams to the FLL World Championship (Core Values Award) and West Edge International; outreach at the Discovery Cube Science Center.
  • Feb 2026
    World Ready Week, AI panelist
    "We Opened Pandora's Box, Now What?" with adaptive audience routing, adversarial text games, and deepfake detection.
Section 7

Extracurricular activities

4 activities · 2018 → present

The two oldest commitments are not technical at all: swimming since 2018, orchestra since 2019.

Bars beginning before August 2023 are cut at the left edge and labeled with their true start year.
  • Sep 2025 –
    Cybersecurity Club, co-founder & co-leader
    Network-defense curriculum and weekly lectures; #12 nationally of 1,344 at picoCTF 2026 (cracked RSA via GMP-ECM).
  • Sep 2023 – Jun 2026
    FIRST Tech Challenge, team captain & lead software engineer
    Two seasons of Java autonomous path planning; regional qualification; FIRST Dean's List Semi-Finalist (2025).
  • 2018 –
    Varsity swim
    2025 Gold Coast League title, the team's first in 20 years; #1 school rank in the 500-yard freestyle.
  • 2019 –
    School orchestra, strings
    Three 1st Place Division Championships at regional competitions.
Section 8

Awards & honors

13 honors · Dec 2023 → Mar 2026

Where the field size is known, every placement lands in the top 8 percent, and three in the top 3.

Each dot is rank divided by field size, drawn on a log scale so a 1-in-13 and a 1-in-350 can share one axis. Honors without a published field size are listed below.
    Section 9

    Skills

    as evidenced by the projects above

    Every tool listed is tied to something shipped: the matrix marks where each one appears in the work.

    Squares take the color of the project's domain. Only pairings stated in the résumé are marked.

    Computer languages

    Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, C++, SQL (PostgreSQL/PLpgSQL), Shell, HTML/CSS, LaTeX

    Machine learning

    PyTorch, Faster R-CNN and DenseNet-121, gradient-boosted trees (XGBoost), SHAP explainability, ONNX on-device deployment, leave-one-subject-out validation

    Backend & data

    FastAPI, Flask, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Firebase, real-time ingestion pipelines, geospatial analysis

    Infrastructure

    Docker, CI/CD pipelines, reverse-proxy and DNS/TLS configuration, managed cloud platforms; six self-hosted applications in production

    Hardware & embedded

    Raspberry Pi, Android & BLE (Polar H10 ECG), custom PCB layouts, closed-loop control systems

    Languages

    Englishnative
    Chinesenative
    Spanishproficient · AP

    Outside of work: concerts, classical and competitive instruments, pickleball, swimming, community service and volunteer outreach.