Khoa Nguyen

Khoa Nguyen

Undergrad, CS
University of Washington

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

SoundWatch

2018 – Present

Publications

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

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

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

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

PDF | doi | Citation | ProtoSound