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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.
Centific
Centific is a Redmond, Washington-based AI and data company that calls itself the hidden infrastructure behind world-class AI models. Its AI Data Foundry combines a global network of 1.8 million-plus domain experts with platforms for data collection, annotation, RLHF, model evaluation, governance and multimodal orchestration, helping enterprises and frontier model labs move AI from experimentation to production. Founded in 2020 out of the former Pactera EDGE business, Centific is a recognized NVIDIA innovation partner and raised a $60M Series A led by Granite Asia in June 2025.