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Kevin Power

Founder & CEO, Powerlab Inc.

Building The Trade Lab — AI-powered trade compliance for importers

MITKaggle ChampionPatent Holder4x Published

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Master of Applied Science in Supply Chain Management

5.0 GPA

May 2025

Coursework in optimization, machine learning, simulation, and supply chain analytics. Capstone: A+ grade.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

SM in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science + SM in Technology & Policy

Expected Dec 2026

Two additional master's degrees in progress.

Cornell University

Certificate in Applied Machine Learning and AI

January 2025

7 courses completed with grades of 95-100%.

Awards & Achievements

$50,000

Kaggle Red Teaming Challenge — 1st Place

OpenAI GPT-OSS-20B. Kaggle's largest hackathon. Sep 2025.

1st Place

Hack-Nation Global AI Hackathon

2,000+ participants from 60+ countries. OpenAI-sponsored. Aug 2025.

$10,000

MIT SCALE Scholars Fellowship

Awarded to top students in MIT's globally #1-ranked SCM program.

MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition — Pitch Finalist

One of the world's most prestigious startup competitions. Past participants include HubSpot and Akamai.

MIT SCALE Conference — Best Project Award

"Agentic Supply Chain Optimization" — top project across MIT's global SCALE Network.

CSCMP Best Capstone Runner-Up

Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals — 9,000+ member global industry association.

Research & Publications

IEEE HPEC 2025

"Automating Harmonized System (HS) Code Classification from Unstructured Shipping Manifests using Large Language Models"

Koch, T. & Power, K. — IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference

IEEE HPEC 2025

"Enhancing Sentiment Classification of E-commerce Reviews for Actionable Insights using LLMs"

Power, K., Harding, P., Lopez, J., Carroll, A., Dugundji, E. — IEEE HPEC

Elsevier / Procedia Computer Science 2025

"From Dock to Destination: Toward an End-to-End Simulation Study"

Power, K., Lahlou-Kamal, Y., Aristov, N., Dugundji, E., Koch, T. — Port of New York/New Jersey simulation

TRB 2026 (Accepted)

"Agentic Supply Chain Optimization: An Interactive Framework for Real-Time, Scenario-Aware Network Design"

Power, K. — Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. Peer-reviewed from 5,700+ submissions.

Peer Reviewer

Invited peer reviewer for ICML 2026 (International Conference on Machine Learning — top-3 ML venue) and WCTR 2026 (World Conference on Transport Research).

Innovation

U.S. Patent Pending

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 →

Powerlab Inc.

Delaware corporation founded October 2025 to commercialize AI-powered supply chain research. Building The Trade Lab — trade compliance tools for importers worldwide.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Trade Lab

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.