# Khoi Nguyen (Jake) Pham · builder

cs @ northeastern. ml systems and robotics

hi, i'm jake. welcome to my website.

i love optimizing things and beautifully engineered products. my interests lie in high performance computing, robotics, and inference where i get to build cool projects that rely on architectural and system decisions. anyway, feel free to explore!

student @ [northeastern university](https://www.northeastern.edu/)

## 01 / 2024 · learning

my first end-to-end build, then a shipped app every week at headstarter.

### inventory management (2024)

my first full app where i've learnt databases and calling apis

stack: JavaScript, SQL

- [github](https://github.com/jaken31/inventory-management)

## 02 / 2024-2025 · refining

security tools that explain themselves: a local malware scanner and a phishing proxy.

### ENTRYL (2024)

a desktop malware scanner that runs on a self-trained model using automl because mcafee isn't smart enough.

stack: Tauri, Rust, Python, Next.js, H2O AutoML, XGBoost, SHAP

- [github](https://github.com/cybernexusteam/ENTRYL)

### hengel (2025)

a proxy that checks every site your browser asks for against known phishing domains, helping people against typosquatting threads. runner-up of 200+ teams at Concordia University.

stack: Python, mitmproxy, SQLite

award: runner-up, 200+ teams, Crack the Code Hackathon, Concordia University

- [github](https://github.com/jaken31/Hengel)

## 03 / 2026 · curiosity

can a model replace a physics engine and still run live?

### mirage (2026)

trained a model that can understand the world well enough to replace a simulator through a custom triton kernel and tokenizer.

stack: MuJoCo, PyTorch, C++, Python

- [github](https://github.com/jaken31/mirage)

## links

- [github](https://github.com/jaken31)
- [linkedin](https://linkedin.com/in/jakeph)
- [email](mailto:nguyenpk31@gmail.com)