Harry Gao

Experiences

Member of Technical Staff

Decagon • January 2026 - Present

Agent engineering.

Founding Engineer

Paraform • March 2025 - January 2026

Employee #8. Scaled agentic hiring platform from 0 to 1. Self-improving agents, talent matching algorithms, and evals.

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Co-Founder

Styx • November 2024 - March 2025

Built AI agents to automate high-volume candidate vetting for recruiters. Acquired by Paraform.

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Researcher

WashU Computational Imaging Group • January 2022 - March 2025

Diffusion, NeRFs, INRs, image compression, inverse problems.

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Education

B.S. in Computer Science

Washington University in St. Louis • August 2021 - December 2024

Teaching assistant for Intro to Machine Learning.

Projects

Remy

Python, Raspberry Pi

Google Home-style offline AI kitchen assistant that runs fully on-device.

Source Code

Snow-1

C, QMK

My custom mechanical keyboard with a 3D printed case, custom-designed electronics, and custom QMK firmware.

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TypedPrompt

TypeScript, Handlebars

Type-safe, schema-first prompt templating for LLMs. Validates template variables against your TypeScript types at compile time so prompt changes never silently break your data contract.

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speechEasy

Python, React.js, Flask, Node.js, Express.js

Presentation preparation app that transcribes and advises you on your presentation in real time. First place overall at HackWashu 2024.

Source Code

Research

SelfDB: A Self-supervised Diffusion Bridge for MRI Reconstruction

IEEE ISBI • 2025

A novel method for training diffusion models on noisy measurements without any high-quality reference images.

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SINCO: A Novel Structural Regularizer for Image Compression using Implicit Neural Representations

IEEE ICASSP • 2024

A novel regularization term for image compression using implicit neural representations.

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