Kien HoCS Student at NJIT

Kien Ho profile

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  • Computer Science student, Honors scholar at NJIT with experience and interest in computer systems and securitty, full-stack web app development, and ML-assisted data analysis.
  • Currently doing research at a computer security lab and delivering a social media website with unique features.
  • Other than that, I was involved in social initiatives, helping run and scale a volunteer tutoring organization.

Skills

  • Full-stack Development
  • Database
  • Computer System and Security
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Machine Learning
  • Research

Education

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New Jersey Institute of Technology

B.S. in Computer Science

  • Albert Dorman Honors Scholar
  • Winner of the Honors Interdisciplinary Research Forum—Using CNN to analyze particle trajectories in the mucus
  • Relevant Courseworks: Data Structures and Algorithms, Machine Learning, Research Methods

2025 - 2029

Newark, NJ

Experience

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Developer

In the Counter

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  • Built a social media platform with a unique focus on in-person groups with Next.js for the web application and MongoDB for persistence.
  • Implemented in-house password and passkey authentication and secured sign-in endpoints.
  • Delivered a minimum viable product with double-digit daily active users.

Jan 2026 - Present

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Undergraduate Researcher

New Jersey Institute of Technology

  • Working with Dr. Zephyr Yao on two projects—surveying the security of mobile LLM and investigating LLM's ability to transpile memory-unsafe C code into Rust.
  • Used Python to automate the collection of relevant papers on a topic using forward and backward reference search.
  • Created coding samples to preliminarily evaluate the ability of LLM to convert C code into Rust.

Jan 2026 - Present

Newark, NJ

Software Engineering Intern

TNTech

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  • Worked with the product team in developing the frontend for an enterprise app for risk management and compliance at Vietnam Asia Bank using React.
  • Resolved software development issue through CI/CD workflow.

Jul - Aug 2024

Ha Noi, VN

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Co-Founder, National President, and Special Advisor

Wise Worm

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  • Founded and led Wise Worm, delivered no-cost English language class virtually to 150 students across four Vietnamese provinces.
  • Established a system of local chapters and a formal organizational structure to assist the rapid expansion.
  • Provided strategic guidance to the 2025 Executive board as they worked on Wise Worm's operation and expansion.

Aug 2023 - Aug 2025

Vietnam

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Tutor and Onboarder

Schoolhouse.world

  • Hosted personalized virtual tutoring sessions in math, science and SAT prep courses
  • Onboarded new tutors and prepared them for their first tutoring session.

May 2021 - May 2024

Awards and Honors

AI Programming Hackathon by Vietnam Assoc. for Informatics

Bronze Medal

  • Developed machine learning solutions across structured data, image classification, and text summarization tasks.
  • Utilized Python frameworks such as ensemble models, computer vision, and neural networks.

Jul 2024

Competitive Programming

Ba Dinh - Tay Ho District Olympiad in Informatics | Third Prize; Central and Highland Olympiad in Informatics | Bronze Medal

  • Designed algorithms under time constraints to solve optimization and graph problems.
  • Applied dynamic programming, graph traversal, and greedy techniques for efficient implementations.

Mar - May 2024

Hanoi, VN

Publications

Contributor

RIS for 6G and Beyond Wireless Networks Book

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  • Contributor and first author of the chapter Energy Efficiency in Reflective Intelligent Surface (RIS), which surveyed energy efficiency evaluations and optimization techniques in RIS systems.

Jun 2025