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Hi, I'm Kenny.

嗨，我是郭柯宇。

Sketch portrait of Kenny with cat ears and bright eyes

Currently:

  • Fourth-year ECE student @ the University of Toronto.
  • I spend most of my time thinking laterally, and maximizing entropy.
  • I care about problems with a lot of moving parts:
    • Performance engineering
    • Chip design and architecture
    • Distributed systems
  • I enjoy digging into how things work, breaking them apart, and figuring out how to make them better.
  • Right now I'm learning about photonics, and building semiconductor fab equipment @ Hacker Fab.

In the past, I've:

  • Helped build an open-source TPU, wrote a long blog post about it, and shared it on Twitter. Ended up making some lifelong friends along the way. And, ended up meeting the CEO of Groq.
  • Met a few more lifelong friends. Somehow ended up building a high-voltage tube furnace in my backyard with them. We got it to 1,000 °C.
  • My first application to Emergent Ventures didn't work out, but I reached out to Tyler Cowen anyway. We ended up having a call, and I later received funding as part of the 54th cohort.
  • Presented to a crowd of 2,000+ people at Socratica Symposium 2026.
  • During my first-year winter break, I stumbled across this video because the thumbnail looked cool. Ended up going down a deep learning rabbit hole and challenged myself to learn image captioning over the summer. Deeply learned deep learning. My only GPU was a GT 710, which was too old for the CUDA setup I needed. Eventually discovered Kaggle's free GPUs and trained a 100M-parameter image captioning model without spending a dollar on compute.
  • Got curious about what it would take to build a neural network from the hardware up, so I decided to try doing it in Verilog. Spent an unreasonable amount of time figuring it out, back when LLMs were pretty useless at Verilog. Eventually got the network and image input pipeline running on an FPGA.
  • I've been folding origami for over a decade. Started with the simple stuff, and somewhere along the way got hooked on the really intricate designs.
Tube furnace build

building @ hacker fab

hackerfab.ca

Hacker Fab selfie
Wiring a tube furnace controller at Hacker Fab
Meraki kickoff event

co-host @ meraki

https://www.merakiuoft.com/

Meraki balloons
Meraki group photo
Meraki team group
Meraki hosts
Meraki attendees
Meraki presentation
Meraki team dinner
Meraki event attendees
Symposium stage presentation

symposium '26

Symposium stage closeup
Symposium event audience
Symposium presentation on stage
Symposium talk from the audience
Symposium presenter under stage lighting
Symposium attendee portrait
Origami sculpture

origami

Origami sculpture detail
Origami sculpture closeup
Sunset over golden hills above a sea of fog

entropy

Alpine lake framed by pines and granite peaks
Sunset over a calm lake from the dock

contact

Email - kennyg.guo🥸mail.utoronto.ca

LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/kennykguo

GitHub - github.com/kennykguo

Twitter - x.com/kennykgguo