Khoa Nguyen

Khoa Nguyen

Undergrad, Computer Science

University of Washington

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Hello, I'm Khoa (Kaynor) Nguyen, a senior majoring in Computer Science at the Paul G. Allen School. Currently a research assistant at Makeability Lab, where I an developing an accessibility App called SoundWatch. I am working on the back-end, creating the infrastructure, and designing the User Interface to provide the best User Experiences of the app. I have a great interest in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, as well as solving problems. I'm eager to learn and build innovative software solutions. I'm open to all internships and full-time jobs related to my field.

Projects

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SoundWatch

2018 – 2022

Papers

SoundWatch: deep learning for sound accessibility on smartwatches

Dhruv Jain, Hung Ngo, Pratyush Patel, Steven Goodman, Khoa Nguyen, Rachel Grossman-Kahn, Leah Findlater, Jon E. Froehlich

CACM 2022

keywords: wearables, sound visualization, sound awareness, smartwatch, sound classification, sound recognition, sound sensing, AI for accessibility

PDF | doi | Citation | Code | SoundWatch

ProtoSound: A Personalized and Scalable Sound Recognition System for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users

Dhruv Jain, Khoa Nguyen, Steven Goodman, Rachel Grossman-Kahn, Hung Ngo, Aditya Kusupati, Ruofei Du, Alex Olwal, Leah Findlater, Jon E. Froehlich

Proceedings of CHI 2022 | Acceptance Rate: 404.9% (2579 / 637)

keywords: deaf, hard of hearing, sound classification, sound recognition, few-shot learning, sound sensing, Deaf

PDF | doi | Citation | ProtoSound • Personalizing Sound Recognition

Videos

ProtoSound: A Personalized and Scalable Sound Recognition System for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users

YouTube | Paper

We design, build, and evaluate new interactive tools and techniques to address pressing societal challenges. Makeability refers both to how our technological innovations make new abilities possible for humans as well as our educational mission to help students gain new abilities as they learn and grow through research, invention, and human-centered design.