Hello, I'm
Richael
Building AI that remembers
Year 11 student building AI companion apps, full-stack web platforms, and GPU kernels, with a background in mathematical modelling competitions and AI-assisted development.
My About
2026 – 2028 · Auckland
Year 11 Student
Studying while building AI products on the side, regularly producing structured mathematical and analytical reports for coursework.
Competition
Mathematical Modelling
Co-authored mathematical modelling papers analyzing real-world problems under competition deadlines — research, assumptions, models, and written findings, refined with a team.
Ongoing
AI Research & Development
Using tools like Claude, VS Code, and Google Colab to read frontier model papers, build GPU kernels, solve real-world problems, and ship web apps.
Volunteer
Worldwide Math Community
Volunteering in Mustang Math Community in Technology and Curriculum Development, contributing technical skills, creative thinking, and mathematical problem-solving experience.
Personal Details
- Name
- Richael
- Location
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Status
- Year 11 Student
- huangd6666@gmail.com
- GitHub
- github.com/dh8116
Currently Learning
Reading
Kimi K3 technical report
Working through the architecture section by section — attention residuals, MoE routing — as part of a weekly paper-dissection loop.
Building
Triton GPU kernels
Week 5 done: RMSNorm forward + backward, benchmarked against PyTorch eager. Picking the Week 6 kernel next.
Next up
AI/ML infrastructure research
Preparing a research project in AI/ML infrastructure programming — the next step after the kernel track.
My Skills
My Projects
Soulor AI
An AI companion and social simulation application. Exploring LLM orchestration, fallback routing, and real-time narrative response design, with features like likeability scoring, coach analysis, and persistent chat history.
VNportal
In developmentA full-stack vinyl music web portal with real-time audio via the Web Audio API, Spotify SDK, and Jamendo — multi-deck mixing, beat sequencing, and multitrack DAW export, backed by Supabase auth and hardened with CSP, XSS escaping, and rate limiting.
Latest Writing
2026-08-23
RoPE: One Kernel for Both Directions
6th kernel: rotary position embeddings, the other piece of Kimi K3's attention stack worth building. The nice part isn't the speedup, it's that backward reuses the exact same kernel as forward — just flip the sign on sin.
2026-08-16
RMSNorm: Forward, Backward, and Why It Matters
Reading Kimi K3's report right now, and RMSNorm keeps coming up as one of its bigger architectural wins alongside attention residuals — so this week's kernel is RMSNorm, forward and backward.