{"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":"2026-05-14T10:59:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:59:27","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=\"1800\" height=\"1800\" src=\"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Pham-Kai.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5434\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover;width:200px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Pham-Kai.png 1800w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Pham-Kai-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Pham-Kai-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Pham-Kai-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Pham-Kai-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Pham-Kai-1536x1536.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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":5434,"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":2,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/5140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5492,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/5140\/revisions\/5492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5434"}],"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}]}}