About This Site

This is Thomas Kanz’s Personal Website.

The greatest success is a product of consistent long-term effort.

HackHarvard 2024 – Open Context

Winner ‘Best AI Application Built with Cloudflare’
  • Collaborated with hackathon team at HackHarvard 2024 to program a notes platform, named Open Context, that creates a searchable semantic database for all notes and course materials. Notes can be inputted in multiple multimodal formats from pdfs, to images, to audio files and all made searchable in a common database.

Carnegie Mellon Sigma Eta Pi Website

Head of Website Development
  • Built and designed a modern website for Carnegie Mellon’s Sigma Eta Pi Co-ed Professional Entrepreneurship Society.
  • As head of Website Development, I actively update and maintain this website.

Velroi Catalogs

AI & Semantic Search Course Catalog Project
  • Programmed a modern course catalog with semantic search capabilities and an LLM driven AI assistant that can automatically adjust search parameters using function calling.
  • Note: Browser dark mode is not yet supported and may not work properly.

MeritAtlas by Velroi

Scouts BSA Merit Badge Search Engine Service Project
  • Built and distributed semantic search Merit Badge search engine from start to finish as a volunteer service project.

CarnegieGPT

2024 TartanHacks – Graduate Student Assembly Campus Experience Award Winner
  • Built CarnegieGPT an intelligent search tool for answering questions related to disparate course and dining databases.

2024 AI EarthHack Hackathon Participant

The GenAI Competition
  • Built a functional front-end and back-end generative AI filtering system to evaluate circular economy business ideas.