Kingsley Zhong

Hi I'm Kingsley. Currently building Hypacia full time. Born and raised in Calgary, Canada; trying to move to SF :) DMs are always open.

I love technology, building things, lifting heavy and mountains. 83kg Junior Powerlifter. Calgary weekends = hiking / skiing in the Rockies (if I can).

Socials:

Formerly (mostly failures):

Data Engineer @ Libin Cardiovasular Institute (Article)
Web Dev @ McGill IGEM (2022)
CIO @ Threat Level Gaming
Co-Founder @ uPrep Academy (who knew that trying to upsell in a saturated market would be so hard)
CS @ UCalgary (2022 - 2024, dropped out)
High School @ Western Canada High School (if ur in high school reading this, take IB, it's worth it don't let other people say otherwise)

Stuff I've done:

Hackathons: (as a fun change from competitive programming)
- HackMIT 2023 - Fluxus : Natural Language-Managed Medical Data Workspace. (Health & Accessibility Track Winner & 1st Place Intersystems Sponsor Prize)
- TreeHacks 2024 - mentis.ai : AI-powered tutor designed to be accessible, interactive and audiovisual. (Best Use of Monster Generative AI APIs)
- PennApps XXIV (2023) - ResearchRadar.ai : AI-powered research paper recommender., interactive and audiovisual. (Best Design Hack)
Competitive Programming: (found it much more enjoyable than competitive math)
- ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) 2022-23: 3rd in Rocky Mountain Region, 1st in Western Canada, 49th at North American Championships
- ACPC (Alberta Collegiate Programming Contest) 2020: D2 2nd, 2021: D2 1st, 2022: D1 3rd, 2023: D1 3rd
- CCC (Canadian Computing Competition) 2021: Senior 60/75 (#40), 2022: Senior 42/75 (choke)
Competitive Math:
- AIME (American Invitational Mathematics Examination) 2021: 8/15 (#602), 2022: never got results :)
- CEMC CSMC (Canadian Senior Mathematics Contest) 2021: 48/60 (#177)
- CEMC Euclid: 2021: 88/100 (#296), 2022: also never got results LOL

Essays:

Someone remind me to publish my Notion drafts...