About This Site

This is Thomas Kanz’s Personal Website.

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

Atvida

AI and Web Powered Misinformation Detection Browser Extension

  • Designed, implemented, and deployed full-stack browser extension that fact checks social media posts in real-time.

Nova Gen AI Hackathon 2024 – Velroi Intel

2nd place out of 42 teams

  • Built “Reverse Phishing” AI Agents that can investigate whether a commercial phone number is linked to a legitimate business or fraudulent operation, using the Twilio and Realtime OpenAI APIs.
  • Utilized advanced LLM function calling capabilities to generate robust Scam Analysis PDF Reports based on call transcripts.

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.

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.