Justin Hou

I. I. Rabi Scholar @ Columbia University, Learning something new every day!

Software Development

Nudge

2025

Negotiations and ICP Discovery Platform for B2C Sales Pricing

Shopify API Agent Orchestration with MCP

Vision-Prompt Glasses

2025

Gesture detecting smart glasses assistant that brings contextual intelligence to real-world environments. Quickly call micro-agents with simple gesture and voice prompting.

Google Mediapipe (Open Source) Agent Orchestration with MCP PyTorch

Granted

2025

Grant writing assistant to 10x the time-to-application for non-profits and research lab grant proposals. Closing the 60-70% unclaimed grant gap by knowledge pooling and project-aware drafting with assistant.

Node.js MongoDB PyTorch

Morning Joe

2025

Morning Joe is your personal news radar—an AI-powered app that curates top stories from your favorite sources and lets you tap into what others are reading, following, and talking about.

Node.js MongoDB PyTorch

Lucidity

2020-2022

Developed and piloted a classroom management application in 50+ classes to intelligently block distracting sites with AI, encourage students to foster a healthier relationship with learning, and reward productivity.

Node.js MongoDB PyTorch
Research Projects

Lockheed Martin Project

2022 - 2023

Solar Active Region Timeseries Imaging and Investigating Polarity Inversion Lines Indicating Eruptivity.

Signal Processing Solar Astrophysics Image Processing

Discovery of Debris Disks in Kepler Habitable Small Planet Candidates

2021

Interactions caused by asteroid collisions and comet tails deposit zodiacal dust which is an indication of debris disks in the solar system. In an effort to discover habitable planets through debris disks, we reported the discovery of debris disks in habitable Kepler small planet candidates in our previous research in identifying three possible habitable planets among the Kepler Objects of Interest (KOI) candidates among 47 habitable planet candidates.

Signal Processing TensorFlow Image Processing
Open Source Contributions

Patches

Sep 2024 - Nov 2024

Contributed to an open-source Patches library, focusing on retriever pipeline for generative SLM.

PyTorch TypeScript