{"id":5140,"date":"2026-05-13T15:07:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/?post_type=profiles&#038;p=5140"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:07:56","slug":"khai-pham","status":"publish","type":"profiles","link":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/profiles\/khai-pham\/","title":{"rendered":"Khai Pham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/Pham-Khai-Pre-Program-Headshot-1-edited-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5142\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover;width:200px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/Pham-Khai-Pre-Program-Headshot-1-edited-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/Pham-Khai-Pre-Program-Headshot-1-edited-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/Pham-Khai-Pre-Program-Headshot-1-edited-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/Pham-Khai-Pre-Program-Headshot-1-edited-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/Pham-Khai-Pre-Program-Headshot-1-edited-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/Pham-Khai-Pre-Program-Headshot-1-edited-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/Pham-Khai-Pre-Program-Headshot-1-edited-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p><strong>Hometown:<\/strong> Sugar Land, Texas<br><strong>Website<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Khai Wilson Pham is a rising sophomore studying Computer Science at Rice University. His drive to use computation for real-world problems grew out of community work at The Beacon, a Houston service center for the unhoused, where he has spent the past three years recycling discarded animal fat from local butchers into over 7,000 bars of soap. He has built a machine learning music recommender trained on 170,000 Spotify tracks and led front-end development on a financial accessibility tool. Khai is interested in interpretable and trustworthy machine learning, specifically how models can support better decision-making in settings where data is incomplete. As an active member of the NSBE and a former coding instructor who mentored over 40 K-12 students, he is committed to making technical knowledge more accessible. Khai is a TEA Student Heroes Award recipient and plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Computer Science focused on human-centered AI. In his free time, he enjoys playing Blood on the Clocktower with friends, calisthenics, and zipping around campus on his electric scooter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5142,"template":"","profile_category":[25],"class_list":["post-5140","profiles","type-profiles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","profile_category-2026-interns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/5140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profiles"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/5140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5143,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/5140\/revisions\/5143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"profile_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_category?post=5140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}