MIT CTL | 2025
Elucidating Import Container Flows
Capstone with Yassine Lahlou-Kamal using discrete-event simulation and manifest classification to study port operations.
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Founder, Powerlab Inc.
Kevin Power
Supply chain researcher and product builder working at the intersection of applied machine learning, global trade, and logistics decision-making.
MIT CTL researchApplied machine learningGlobal tradeProduct development
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Background
Research translated into working software
Kevin founded Powerlab to build The Trade Lab: software for classification, tariff analysis, landed-cost review, and regulatory research. The product direction draws on his work in supply chain modeling and applied machine learning.
MIT's Center for Transportation and Logistics lists Kevin as a research assistant. Its profile records an MIT Master of Applied Science in Supply Chain Management completed in 2025 and ongoing SM programs in Technology and Policy and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, expected in 2027.
View the MIT CTL profileMay 2025
MIT supply chain master's capstone
Co-authored a simulation study of import-container flows through the Port of New York and New Jersey.
July 2025
Provisional application filed
Named inventor on U.S. provisional application 63/849,878. This is a historical filing statement, not a claim of current patent status.
September 2025
Kaggle red-teaming award
Kaggle awarded Kevin a $50,000 first prize for work on the OpenAI gpt-oss-20b Red-Teaming Challenge.
October 2025
Powerlab established
Kevin subsequently founded Powerlab and continued development of The Trade Lab.
Research record
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MIT SCALE Expo | 2025
Project award listing
MIT CTL's official announcement lists the port-simulation project among the 2025 SCALE Research Expo project award winners.
Award announcementProcedia Computer Science | 2025
From Dock to Destination
Published article extending the import-container simulation work with co-authors from MIT CTL.
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MIT CTL profile: Kevin Power
MIT role, completed MASc, and current degree programs
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MIT SCALE Research Expo award announcement
Official 2025 project-award listing
Elsevier: From Dock to Destination
Published Procedia Computer Science article
See what the research became
The Trade Lab turns trade data and compliance workflows into practical tools for import teams.