Harry Gao
Building agents.
Experiences
Founding Engineer
Paraform • March 2025 - January 2026
Employee #8. Scaled agentic hiring platform from 0 to 1. Self-improving agents, talent matching algorithms, and evals.
Co-Founder
Styx • November 2024 - March 2025
Built AI agents to automate high-volume candidate vetting for recruiters. Acquired by Paraform.
Researcher
WashU Computational Imaging Group • January 2022 - March 2025
Diffusion, NeRFs, INRs, image compression, inverse problems.
Education
B.S. in Computer Science
Washington University in St. Louis • August 2021 - December 2024
Teaching assistant for Intro to Machine Learning.
Projects
Remy
Python, Raspberry Pi
Google Home-style offline AI kitchen assistant that runs fully on-device.
Snow-1
C, QMK
My custom mechanical keyboard with a 3D printed case, custom-designed electronics, and custom QMK firmware.
TypedPrompt
TypeScript, Handlebars
Type-safe, schema-first prompt templating for LLMs. Validates template variables against your TypeScript types at compile time so prompt changes never silently break your data contract.
speechEasy
Python, React.js, Flask, Node.js, Express.js
Presentation preparation app that transcribes and advises you on your presentation in real time. First place overall at HackWashu 2024.
Research
SelfDB: A Self-supervised Diffusion Bridge for MRI Reconstruction
IEEE ISBI • 2025
A novel method for training diffusion models on noisy measurements without any high-quality reference images.
Read PaperSINCO: A Novel Structural Regularizer for Image Compression using Implicit Neural Representations
IEEE ICASSP • 2024
A novel regularization term for image compression using implicit neural representations.
Read Paper