Michael Chen
AI engineer in the Bay Area.
Portfolio summary · October 2026. Compiled from this site’s existing Work, About, and project pages.
michaelluochen1@gmail.com
github.com/mchen04 · LinkedIn
Experience
AI engineer · Epoch AI / Zerg AI
2025 to now. Agent runtimes, tool dispatch and evaluation harnesses, plus forward-deployed work with customers.
MOBIVOLT
2023 to 2025. Test-stand software in C# and Avalonia, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, firmware migration, and KiCad and ngspice work for a DOD-funded fuel-cell program.
Founder and president · AI at UCR
2023 to 2025. UC Riverside’s first official AI organization. 50+ members and 10+ technical workshops.
Selected projects
Zerg and ZTC
Parallel tool dispatch, worktree-isolated batch execution, and the live web interface for autonomous coding agents.
Kestrel
A single-voice audiobook engine for MLX distilled from Kokoro-82M, with about 10M active parameters. It sounds less clear than Kokoro and misses both quality gates.
Epub Listener and Hark
Tools to turn books into audio and listen on-device, with read-along and offline playback.
Education and awards
B.S. Computer Science, UC Riverside, June 2026. GPA 3.66. Minor in Strategy & Entrepreneurship.
AMD University Program Award for the team’s PHiLIP prototype, built on AMD ROCm and PixArt-alpha.
Cutie Hack 2022: first place in the sustainability track.
Source: Work, About, Kestrel, and My audiobook setup on michaelluochen.com. No original CV is available in this repository. This document summarizes published portfolio content; it adds no qualifications or new claims.