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I Focus on Game & AI.

Part-time AI Fellow at Handshake AI, evaluating frontier models. Previously built anomaly detection and agentic analytics at Activision Blizzard.

My personal blog and portfolio as an AI / ML engineer, with notes on AI, computer graphics, and the systems behind games and software.

Professional credentials

Selected work

All projects

Microsoft Gaming AI Project

At Activision Blizzard, built a PB-scale anomaly-detection and agent-assisted investigation system for 50+ live-service KPIs, reducing analyst response latency by 40%+. Productionized daily ML workflows from detection to reporting.

  • Databricks
  • Airflow
  • RAG
  • Agentic AI
  • ML Workflow
Case study

YOLO-KAN Research

First-authored an IEEE CAI 2025 short paper integrating KAN modules into YOLOv11n for Microsoft COCO object detection. The best KAN-2-5 configuration reached 65.83% precision (+1.84 pp over the 63.99% baseline) while reducing network depth from 319 to 299 layers.

  • YOLOv11
  • KAN
  • PyTorch
  • Microsoft COCO
  • IEEE CAI 2025
Research

AI Companion

LIVE

An English, source-linked voice and text companion that follows visitors across the portfolio and answers focused questions about my experience, research, and projects.

  • Next.js
  • LiveKit
  • Gemini
  • Voice AI
  • Source-linked
Open companion

Education

Georgia Tech MSCS (AI)GPA 3.88 / 4.00

NVIDIA Sponsored Agentic AI · Artificial Intelligence · Game AI · Game Design & Development · GPU Hardware & Software · Machine Learning for Trading

Degree audit (PDF)

Northeastern MSCSGPA 3.97 / 4.00

Data Visualization & GenAI · Distributed Systems · Cloud Computing · Deep Learning Research

Unofficial transcript (PDF)

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