XARP: A Human-First and Agent-Ready Extended Reality Toolkit in Python
Arthur Caetano, Radha Kumaran, Kelvin Jou, Tobias Höllerer, Misha Sra
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Résumé
Kelvin Jou
Computer engineering student at UC Santa Barbara working across extended reality, AI systems, and Apple platforms.
Research
Publications
On the Steganographic Capacity of Selected Learning Models
Rishit Agrawal, Kelvin Jou, Tanush Obili, Daksh Parikh, Samarth Prajapati, Yash Seth, Charan Sridhar, Nathan Zhang, Mark Stamp
Work
Experience
Software Engineer Intern
PayPal
Developing PayPal’s first voice-assisted money transfer capability on iOS with Siri and App Intents, alongside reusable test and snapshot-recording infrastructure for Balances surfaces.
Extended Reality Researcher
UCSB Human-AI Experience Lab
Co-authored XARP, an agent-ready XR platform built around Python APIs, WebSockets, Unity, and Model Context Protocol; also developed a Three.js/WebXR hand-perception prototype.
Scientific Software Applications Developer
NSF BioPACIFIC MIP
Delivered cross-platform scientific workflows with Flutter, Django, Svelte, and PostgreSQL, including chemical structure editing and retrieval across more than 100,000 records.
Cryptography Researcher
San Jose State University
Studied steganographic capacity and accuracy degradation in LSTM and DenseNet121 models using features extracted from 100,000 malware binaries.