Yongkang Zou — AI Engineer in Paris

AI Engineer. My way of learning: BFS -> DFS

BFS: I try everything that interests me, don't want to become boring. DFS: building solid projects that real users depend on.

Previously at Epiminds and Mozart AI. I also make music as inhibitor.

Currently: Agent Runtime · Context Engineering · Agent Eval

29 hackathons, 14 wins.

Languages: Chinese (native) · French (DALF C2) · English (IELTS 7.0)

Selected work

Codex Privacy HUD

A runtime privacy and audit plugin for OpenAI Codex: tracks sensitive data crossing agent boundaries, with a session disclosure ledger and a Codex CLI status line.

OpenAI Privacy Hackathon Paris · Winner · 100+ GitHub stars · 2026.09 – now

Clio

A full-duplex speech-to-speech voice agent for insurance claims on real phone lines (Twilio / LiveKit), with ~450–650 ms round-trip latency.

Big Berlin Hack · Inca Track winner · 2026

KernelGen

Triton / FlagTree kernels for dynamic sparse attention and DeepSeek mHC across five AI accelerator backends: 1.97× average speedup on sparse attention, 71.85× on mHC.

GOSIM KernelGen 2026 · 1st, Sparse Attention track · 2026.05

Writing

Background

From Nanjing to France, from economics to computer science.

Music

Yongkang Zou also writes and sings alternative RnB and lo-fi as inhibitor.