Michael Chen
AMD Pervasive AI Winner | AI Engineer
Building production AI systems that solve real problems
About Me
AI Engineer specializing in production LLM systems, RAG architectures, and autonomous agents. Currently building AI coding agents at Epoch and developed production test systems for DOD-funded programs at MOBIVOLT.
Founder/President of AI at UCR (AIR), where I scaled the organization from 0 to 50+ members. Pursuing B.S. Computer Science (Minor: Entrepreneurship and Strategy) at UC Riverside (GPA: 3.72, Dean's Honor List).
Experience
Professional roles and leadership
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Collaborated on Zerg AI, an autonomous coding agent framework featuring spec-driven TDD workflows, world model state tracking, incremental context optimization, and multi-environment execution. Built ZTC, a production TUI orchestrating 20+ execution phases with hybrid RAG retrieval, streaming LLM integration, and SWE-bench evaluation workflows.
Software Engineer
Developed 10+ automated test systems for $5M+ DOD-funded fuel cell program using C#/.NET, integrating 250+ sensors with zero downtime across 5,000+ hours of testing. Accelerated data analysis by 300% through automated Python pipelines and embedded Arduino firmware (RS-232/TTL/SPI at 50Hz).
Founder/President
Established UCR's first official AI organization, scaling membership from 0 to 50+ active members within 6 months. Delivered 10+ technical workshops on AI/ML implementation and emerging technologies for cross-functional teams, establishing UCR's AI community network and collaborative development culture.
Projects
Personal and award-winning work
PHiLIP
Human-in-loop image generation platform achieving 2-second inference with 71 style presets, Stable Diffusion upscaling, and iterative refinement. Presented live demo at AMD Advancing AI Event 2024, San Francisco.
Castor
AI-powered GEO consultation platform with agentic RAG system featuring 150,000-word knowledge base from 15+ peer-reviewed papers and 80+ industry sources with hybrid search and Cohere reranking.
Skills
Technologies I work with