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Gavin leads validation at Khorium — the discipline of proving that the platform’s simulations match what actually happens in the real world. A simulation is only valuable if engineers can trust it, and trust has to be earned against physical hardware, every time. Gavin owns that proof.

His background is built for this. At UC Berkeley, he co-led a senior capstone sponsored by Honeywell that modeled how tiny vibrations affect satellite pointing accuracy — the kind of problem where a model is only useful if it predicts what the real satellite does. At Cal Poly Pomona’s Liquid Rocket Lab, he designed and tested high-pressure fuel systems for two launch vehicles, including authoring the safety procedures for the engine test campaigns. He’s stood next to the hardware while it fires.

More recently, Gavin built free-flying robotic platforms at Orbital Exploration Systems and engineered HVAC systems for 50+ commercial buildings at ACIES Engineering, where every design had to pass strict code compliance before it could be approved. Across rockets, satellites, robotics, and buildings, the through-line is the same: design it, model it, then prove it works.

At Khorium, Gavin is the person who makes sure the simulation foundation the rest of the company is built on holds up. He owns the testing rigs, the reference datasets, and the verification process that close the loop between what the AI predicts and what the physical world actually does. When a customer asks “can I trust this result?”, the answer comes from Gavin’s work.