Kia Jia Han
I fine-tune and evaluate vision-language models, and build agentic AI systems for people who aren’t engineers: clinicians, caregivers, therapists and elderly users.
- Deployed by LTA for traffic incident monitoring
- In clinical UAT at Singapore General Hospital
- 1,000+ elderly users across 9 eldercare centres
Work
The figures in the scene, as a list.
Vision-language incident retrieval
Text-to-image retrieval of road accidents and vehicle fires from fixed CCTV, trained on a dataset I built from raw footage. Deployed by LTA.
Cynapse.aiSep 2025 – Feb 2026Road-marking segmentation with Mask2Former
Fine-tuned a Mapillary-pretrained Mask2Former to segment lane lines, yellow boxes, dividers and other road features in LTA CCTV views, after replacing its label set with the classes the project needed.
Cynapse.aiSep 2025 – Feb 2026Roll-call face recognition from CCTV
A face-recognition pipeline, built from scratch with CVLFace, that confirms which inmates are present at roll call from CCTV. It picked out all 10 enrolled people among 1,000+ distractor images with zero false positives.
Cynapse.aiSep 2025 – Feb 2026Agentic AI for Serious Illness Conversations
A stateful agent that holds structured Serious Illness Conversations with caregivers while clinicians stay in control. In user acceptance testing at SGH.
SUTD × SGH × NCCSJan 2026 – presentAMI Neuroworks: AI companion for elderly users
A voice-driven AI companion for elderly users, deployed across 9 eldercare centres in Singapore to 1,000+ users in closed beta.
AMI NeuroworksJan – Dec 2025DAS D.I.A.L.: individualised AI learning for dyslexic learners
A platform where therapists turn assessment data into learner profiles and generate curriculum-grounded literacy activities. I built the RAG retrieval and review pipeline.
Dyslexia Association of SingaporeMay – Aug 2026StoryWeaver: generative interactive mystery game
An Android mystery game that generates a map, characters and a consistent story for every playthrough. 1st prize, ISTD Information Systems & Programming Project.
Information Systems & Programming (50.001), SUTDFeb – May 2026GridBug: FPGA arcade game
A two-player maze game running in FPGA logic around a single 32-bit ALU, built into an arcade cabinet. One of five teams selected for showcase.
Computation Structures (50.002), SUTDJan – Apr 2026
Résumé
Each entry is scanned as it comes into view: results, tools and organisations are boxed.
Experience
May – Aug 2026
AI Software Engineer (industry project)
Dyslexia Association of Singapore
- Built the RAG retrieval and activity-review pipeline for a generative AI literacy-activity generator, with therapist approval before anything is shared.
Feb 2026 – present
AI Research Intern
A*STAR I2R, MI Department
- Training and evaluating a RoMaV2-based dense feature-matching model that estimates pixel-level correspondences between semiconductor image pairs, for defect localisation.
- LLM safety and evaluation for RAG applications: benchmarking chatbot robustness against single- and multi-turn attacks (TAP, Crescendo, X-Teaming).
Jan 2026 – present
Agentic AI Software Engineer
SUTD × Singapore General Hospital
- Building a stateful LangGraph agent for Serious Illness Conversations with caregivers, with clinicians kept in the loop. Now in user acceptance testing.
Sep 2025 – Feb 2026
AI Software Engineer Intern
Cynapse.ai
- Built a CCTV training-data pipeline and fine-tuned CLIP-, BLIP- and SigLIP-family encoders for incident retrieval: above 80% Recall@5 and 90% Recall@10, deployed by LTA.
Jan – Dec 2025
Co-founder and Software Engineer
AMI Neuroworks
- Built a Unity AI companion for elderly users, deployed across 9 eldercare centres to 1,000+ users in closed beta.
Jan – Aug 2025
Undergraduate Research Assistant
SUTD
- Reverse-engineered RML models with ML: clustered model transitions with an unsupervised pipeline (DBSCAN, Hough Transform) and inferred PRISM guarded commands with logistic regression.
Nov 2024 – Feb 2025
Data Science Intern
National University Hospital, HealthierSG
- Analysed two years of ACP and SIC records to find trends informing policy and patient care.
- Designed a new ACP data-entry template, and analysed billing data to support compassionate discharge.
Education
2024–2028
B.Eng. Computer Science and Design
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
- SUTD Global Distinguished Scholarship
- CGPA 4.63 / 5.00, Honours with Highest Distinction (as of Aug 2026)
- SUTD Honours List for Freshmore Terms, AY2025 (top 10% of cohort)
- SUTD Honours List for Sophomore & Junior Terms, AY2026
Coursework: Machine Learning, Algorithms, Data Driven World, Modelling Uncertainty, Elements of Software Construction, Computer System Engineering, Computation Structures, Information Systems & Programming, History of Surveillance in Modern Asia
Recognition
Deep Dive Singapore
1st
Deep Dive Finland
Finalist
ISTD Information Systems & Programming Project
1st prize, S$400
StoryWeaver. Retained by SUTD for future Open Houses; team invited to present it to juniors choosing their pillars.
Computation Structures (50.002)
Selected for showcase (one of five teams)
GridBug.
AMI Neuroworks
Over S$150k in incubation funding
Featured at the National Library Board’s SG60 Heart&Soul and Pages & Pixels showcases.
Also took part in: Sea x OpenAI Codex Regional Hackathon, Gemini 3 Hackathon
Skills
Languages
Python, Java, C++, C, C#, SQL
ML / vision
PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, OpenCV, CLIP, SigLIP, BLIP, Grounding DINO, Mask2Former
Agents / LLMs
LangGraph, RAG, embeddings, function calling, prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, Gemini, Azure OpenAI
Software
Flask, FastAPI, React, REST APIs, Supabase, SQLiteCloud, Streamlit, Git, GitHub Actions, Unity
About
TODO: About: 2–3 sentences in my own words. What I care about, and one thing outside work.
Contact
- kjiahan1@gmail.com
- linkedin.com/in/jia-han-kia
- GitHub
- github.com/TheKJH
- Resume
- PDF TODO: add resume.pdf