HENRIK GOMBOS

CS + Econ @ Cornell

02 — Projects

Work

LLM Lexical Diversity Research

Controlled evaluation of lexical diversity across Claude, GPT-4, and Llama models.

Published preprint · Novel TTR methodology across frontier LLMs

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Outcomes

  • ·Preprint published
  • ·3 model families evaluated
  • ·Novel TTR methodology

03 — Experience

Timeline

  • ·Evaluate early-stage startups across deep tech, SaaS, and consumer sectors.
  • ·Conduct market sizing, competitive analysis, and founder diligence for investment committee.
  • ·Coordinate operations for Cornell's largest entrepreneurship organization.
  • ·Organize speaker events, hackathons, and founder networking sessions for 300+ members.
  • ·Co-founded social prediction market platform; reached YC W25 Top 10%.
  • ·Led full-stack development, product strategy, and user research for public beta launch.
  • ·Grew to 100+ active users within first month post-launch.
  • ·Designed controlled evaluation framework measuring lexical diversity across Claude, GPT-4, and Llama 3.
  • ·Developed novel TTR (type-token ratio) methodology accounting for prompt variation and temperature settings.
  • ·Published preprint; findings cited in discussions of AI writing homogenization.
  • ·Built web crawlers and CSV parsing pipelines to analyze third-party cookie deprecation under Google's Privacy Sandbox initiative.
  • ·Processed data from 50,000+ domains to surface advertiser and publisher compliance patterns.
  • ·Contributed to Google-funded research on the economic impact of privacy-preserving ad tech.
  • ·Contributed 20+ merged patches to the dracut initramfs generator, a core component of Fedora/RHEL boot process.
  • ·Ranked top-3 contributor during tenure; patches shipped in RHEL 9.x stable releases.
  • ·Improved boot-time diagnostics and module loading reliability across enterprise Linux deployments.

04 — Adventures

Log

Bangkok & Ayutthaya
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Bangkok & Ayutthaya

Thailand

A week moving between the chaos of Bangkok and the ancient temple ruins of Ayutthaya. Ate everything, explored Buddhist temples, and found some genuinely great thrift finds in Thai malls — a surprise highlight.

Shanghai, Chengdu, Beijing & Xi'an
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Shanghai, Chengdu, Beijing & Xi'an

China

Four cities, four completely different registers of China. The Great Wall at dawn, terracotta warriors standing in formation, the Forbidden City's scale — and the unexpected warmth of strangers in Chengdu's teahouses.

Key West
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Key West

Florida Keys, USA

Escaped the New England winter with a trip to the end of the road. Live music on Duval Street, that specific golden-hour light over the water, and the kind of family time that only happens when everyone's far from home.

Coastal Taiwan
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Coastal Taiwan

Taiwan

Toured Taiwan's coast eating constantly — night market scallion pancakes, pineapple cakes, beef noodle soup. Met other young travelers doing the same thing and ended up spending days together exchanging stories and languages.

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Budapest & the Countryside

Hungary

Reconnecting with family and language. Hungarian grammar — with its 18 grammatical cases — makes every sentence feel like a small engineering problem. Folk dancing in the village square at dusk.

06 — Contact

Connect

I'm always interested in new collaborations, research opportunities, and conversations about language, technology, and what's being built next.

Current status

Open to opportunities

Internships · Research collaborations · Founding roles

Henrik Gombos · 2026

Let's build something.