Kahlia Hogg
Durham, NC · kahlia.hogg@gmail.com
about
🦄 Hi, I'm Kahlia -- a former pro athlete, turned AI engineer and Fulbright Scholar
⚡ I'm passionate about high performance sport, edge AI, and AI driven social impact
🔥 I'm fuelled by an insatiable curiosity, unwavering grit, and the pursuit of excellence
🧩 I'm a tinkerer and a hacker, captivated by puzzles and solving complex problems
🚀 I'm exploring the nexus of possibility between Sport x Climate Tech
experience
READY Sport Global
• Expert contributor for the Ready AI in Sport course, successfully launched Jan 2024
IBM iX Sports & Entertainment
• Developed training pipelines and performed model validation for the Wimbledon Tennis AI Commentary model
• Trained a custom tennis classifier with >92% F1 and <0.03 sec latency for automated highlight package generation
Australian Institute of Sport
• Developed a novel sport-specific action recognition model to support Australian Olympic sports teams
• Created a robust 3D sports motion dataset by simulating dynamic camera projections used in sports broadcasting
education
Master of Science in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)
Fulbright Scholar (Funded by the Kinghorn Foundation)
Graduate Certificate in Artificial Intelligence
GPA: 6.50/7.00
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Graduated Magna Cum Laude (GPA: 3.81/4.00)
projects
A collection of Rust Data Engineering and MLOps projects
An opensource project to package and deploy SOTA LLMs as Rust binaries
An introductory course covering the role of AI in Sport
presentations
Finetuning ClimateGPT to minimize carbon footprint
Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
ShieldFL: Mitigating Model Poisoning Attacks in Privacy Preserving Federated Learning