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Hi, I'm

Nick Kim

Building software, exploring AI, and learning a little more every day.

About

Doctor, Lawyer, Engineer, Investment Banker... I couldn't find a passion. Hackathons did it: take an idea, ship it over a weekend, watch someone actually use it. That's still the part I chase.

I study Engineering at the University of Waterloo and work as a Machine Learning Engineer at WAT.ai. Outside of tech: gym, guitar, golf, hockey.See my hobbies

What I'm exploring

  • AI Safety
  • AI agents and automation
  • Building useful full-stack products
Lining up a putt on the green with a friend
Carrying the puck during a hockey game
Posing with laptops at a hackathon judging round
With friends in University of Waterloo gear
At a soccer match with family
Presenting the Nomad project at a hackathon whiteboard

Research

  1. Accepted ×2 atNeurIPS 2026

    2026

    Evaluating Context-Window Harnesses for CBRNE Safety

    Nathan Nguyen, Nicholas Kim, Abhitha Vegi, Arko Samad, Suvajit Majumder

    Second author

    NewInML and Trustworthy AI for Good (AI4GOOD) workshops · Paris, France

    Compares 15 inference-time safety harnesses across nine open-weight language models for CBRNE risks, finding that clear boundary clauses improve safety discrimination.

    Read paper

Work

  1. Machine Learning Engineer at WAT.ai

    Adaptive-Compute Inference for Real-Time Text to Speech

    Python · PyTorch · dots.tts

    Sept 2026 — Present

  2. Software Engineering Intern at Appli AI

    Building AI-powered matching and backend systems that deliver secure, near-real-time recommendations.

    Python · TypeScript · Neo4j · Recommendation Systems · Vector Embeddings · Backend Development

    June 2026 — Sept 2026

  3. Machine Learning Research Intern at Algoverse

    Researching AI safety and evaluation by testing different inference-time harnesses for open-weight LLMs in CBRNE domains.

    Python · LLMs · AI Safety · RAG · Machine Learning · Research

    June 2026 — Sept 2026

  4. Founder & Lead Tutor at One2One Tutoring

    Founded a referral-driven tutoring business that helped 18 students strengthen their mathematics skills.

    Entrepreneurship · Teaching · Communication · Leadership · Mathematics

    Sept 2024 — June 2026

Projects

AutoChem

2026

A low-cost tabletop wet lab where two SO-101 arms and a load-cell scale precisely weigh, dose, and mix chemicals, with a MuJoCo digital twin verifying every move in simulation.

PolyBot

2026

A master agent sabotages a web task as four browser agents compete to finish it, while spectators watch, place virtual YES or NO bets, and generate training data from their recoveries and failures.

1st Place, Battle of the Schools (UofT vs. Waterloo).

Janus

2026

An AI-powered sensor arbitration system that detects conflicting spacecraft telemetry and selects the safest data source in real time.

Third Overall, Google DeepMind Hackathon.

Rally

2026

A two-player table tennis game uses webcam pose tracking to turn each player’s hand into a virtual racket and synchronize the ball, score, and match state across laptops.

1st Place, General Catalyst Hackathon.

Atlas

2026

A spatial memory platform that turns ordinary walkthrough videos into photorealistic 3D places you can revisit, organize, and share.

Nomad AI agent permission interface

nomad

2026

A Solana-based identity layer that gives AI agents verifiable, revocable permissions.

Winner of Best Use of Solana, JamHacks

Marrymap wedding vendor CRM dashboard

MarryMap

2026

A shared wedding-planning workspace: couples Tinder-swipe through vendor options together and a built-in CRM tracks every quote from lead to booked.

First Place, Cursor Toronto Hackathon. $3,500 in prize credits.

Buzzy virtual marketplace trading dashboard

Buzzy

2026

A social market where users discover trends and trade virtual shares using in-app tokens.

Hobbies

Guitar

Covers
Nick playing guitar and singing at home

Just for fun, I post covers sometimes lol.

@kimmer_music17

Contact

Feel free to reach out if you'd like to discuss opportunities, have a quick coffee chat, or just say hi! I'm always looking forward to meeting new people.