Founder & CEO, Powerlab Inc.
Building The Trade Lab — AI-powered trade compliance for importers
Master of Applied Science in Supply Chain Management
May 2025
Coursework in optimization, machine learning, simulation, and supply chain analytics. Capstone: A+ grade.
SM in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science + SM in Technology & Policy
Expected Dec 2026
Two additional master's degrees in progress.
Certificate in Applied Machine Learning and AI
January 2025
7 courses completed with grades of 95-100%.
OpenAI GPT-OSS-20B. Kaggle's largest hackathon. Sep 2025.
2,000+ participants from 60+ countries. OpenAI-sponsored. Aug 2025.
Awarded to top students in MIT's globally #1-ranked SCM program.
One of the world's most prestigious startup competitions. Past participants include HubSpot and Akamai.
"Agentic Supply Chain Optimization" — top project across MIT's global SCALE Network.
Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals — 9,000+ member global industry association.
IEEE HPEC 2025
Koch, T. & Power, K. — IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference
IEEE HPEC 2025
Power, K., Harding, P., Lopez, J., Carroll, A., Dugundji, E. — IEEE HPEC
Elsevier / Procedia Computer Science 2025
Power, K., Lahlou-Kamal, Y., Aristov, N., Dugundji, E., Koch, T. — Port of New York/New Jersey simulation
TRB 2026 (Accepted)
Power, K. — Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. Peer-reviewed from 5,700+ submissions.
Invited peer reviewer for ICML 2026 (International Conference on Machine Learning — top-3 ML venue) and WCTR 2026 (World Conference on Transport Research).
Application No. 63/849,878 — "AI-Powered Supply Chain Intelligence System." A novel framework integrating large language models with operations research optimization.
Filed July 24, 2025 →
Delaware corporation founded October 2025 to commercialize AI-powered supply chain research. Building The Trade Lab — trade compliance tools for importers worldwide.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Kevin built The Trade Lab to solve the problem he studied at MIT: making advanced trade compliance tools accessible to every importer. The platform combines AI classification, tariff calculation, and regulatory intelligence into one tool.