MYRON LAI
Maker Portfolio · 2026
Maker Portfolio · 2026
Every project links to a live deployment or public repository.
01 / HRV-ML MONITOR
FIG. 02 Wearable ML system for SCAD patients using heart-rate variability. The discovery: when heart rate rises but variability fails to follow, the gap itself is the signal. That gap became the decoupling index.
RIGOR
FIG. 04
02 / EMERGENCYPATH
FIG. 06 AI-driven disaster response platform: community reports fused with official feeds under AI confidence scoring, producing live hazard maps and safe evacuation routes. Evolved from DisasterScope (v1) to EmergencyPath (v2).
IMPACT
03 / AI HELMET
FIG. 08 Patented embedded AI system for real-time 360° hazard detection and AR navigation overlays for bikers.
Intellectual Property
The filings protect the embedded sensing pipeline and the AR overlay that turns detection into a rider-facing heads-up display.
FIG. 09 The sensing array up close: embedded vision under a rider's shell.
04 / ENGRAM
Autonomous personal AI assistant on Telegram: a dispatcher session routes tasks to a tmux worker pool (3 executor types, ~700ms–25s startup), with hybrid dense+sparse vector memory and an auto-computed knowledge graph.
05 / RISKMESH
FIG. 11 Compound disaster risk prediction for Southern California: wildfire, drought, and grid-failure interactions modeled with a stacked XGBoost ensemble over NASA FIRMS, NOAA, USGS, and EIA data, with SHAP explainability.
Leadership
Two seasons: rookie-year ILT #1; 2024–25 ILT & League #1 with Regional Qualification. Dean’s List Semi-finalist 2025. Solo programmer for autonomous + driver control.
Coached teams to World Competition (Core Values Award) and West Edge International; translator for international teams. PVSA Gold (100+ hours).
Founded the school’s AI club: generative AI, safety, alignment, hands-on projects.
Workshops and CTF practice; led the team to a #12 US Middle/High School finish in picoCTF 2026.
Kept: the Dead Ends
DisasterScope's first backend
v1 ran on Flask and Firebase, deployed like any class project. Under real users it was slow. Requests queued, queries got chatty, and the database was a poor fit for live geospatial alerts.
I rewrote the backend on FastAPI and Supabase, then moved hosting to a VPS swarm with backups so the service stays up during the emergencies it exists for.
HRV before the chest strap
Blood-pressure monitoring first, then optical wrist sensors, including a Xiaomi watch. Cuffs cannot sample continuously, and wrist PPG dropped beats during movement, exactly the moments the data mattered most.
A chest-worn ECG finally gave clean RR intervals, and those made the decoupling index findable. Pick the sensor for the signal, not for convenience.
Also Built
One codebase builds this book as both a website and a PDF.
This book, by the numbers
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