# Kelvin Lwin

> Kelvin Lwin is an AI architect and educator who came to the United States from Burma at twelve and turned a monk's charge to fix education into a life's work. After nearly a decade at UC Berkeley and seven years building the computer science curriculum at UC Merced, he designed courses at NVIDIA's Deep Learning Institute that reached more than 100,000 developers worldwide. He now serves as a Field CTO and AI leader at Centific, the enterprise AI and data-foundry company that closed a $60M Series A, where he focuses on responsible, human-in-the-loop AI and the idea that teaching machines when not to act matters as much as teaching them how.

- **Role:** Field CTO / AI leader at Centific
- **Organizations:** Centific, NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute, UC Merced, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Coursera, Udacity
- **From:** Burma (Myanmar)
- **Nationality:** American (born in Burma)
- **Education:** Computer Science (studied and worked as a teaching assistant), University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** Taught 4,500 students across 55 classes at UC Merced and redesigned its undergraduate CS curriculum, Helped NVIDIA's Deep Learning Institute reach over 100,000 developers worldwide, Built AI/deep-learning curricula in partnership with Udacity and Coursera/deeplearning.ai

## Career timeline

- **childhood** — Immigrated to the United States from Burma at age 12, carrying a preceptor monk's charge to help improve the education system
- **~1990s-2000s** — Spent nearly a decade at UC Berkeley, working through college as a teaching assistant
- **2000s-2010s** — Teaching Professor at UC Merced for 7 years; taught 4,500 students across 55 classes and redesigned the undergraduate Computer Science curriculum
- **2010s** — Joined NVIDIA's Deep Learning Institute as a Senior Deep Learning Instructor and curriculum designer, helping reach 100,000+ developers worldwide with Udacity and Coursera/deeplearning.ai
- **later** — Taught 'AI, Empathy & Ethics' as an instructor affiliated with UC Santa Cruz via Coursera; launched the Human Insight Project to build balanced, inclusive datasets
- **2024** — Joined Centific in a senior AI and Field CTO capacity
- **2025** — Centific announced a $60M Series A to accelerate its enterprise AI and data-foundry platform

## Achievements

- Taught 4,500 students across 55 classes at UC Merced and redesigned its undergraduate CS curriculum
- Helped NVIDIA's Deep Learning Institute reach over 100,000 developers worldwide
- Built AI/deep-learning curricula in partnership with Udacity and Coursera/deeplearning.ai
- Created and teaches an 'AI, Empathy & Ethics' course reframing AI education around responsibility
- Founded the Human Insight Project to build datasets representing all of humanity

## Latest updates

- **2024-09** — Joined Centific in a senior AI / Field CTO role
- **2025-06** — Centific announced a $60M Series A funding round

## Links

- Website: https://centific.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelvinlwin/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UQzJaa0HPU
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kelvinlwin/

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Last updated: 2026-07-01