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AI Engineer & Cybersecurity Researcher
Architecting intelligent systems, fortifying digital defenses, and translating cutting-edge research into real-world impact - one model and one exploit fix at a time.
About Me
I’m a builder at heart—equally at home training vision models, hardening servers, or crafting pixel-perfect interfaces that delight users.
My Journey
From teaching 500+ students C++ as a teen to safeguarding 30 000-user lab networks at UT Dallas, my path has been fueled by relentless curiosity and a passion for sharing knowledge.
Today, I orchestrate ML pipelines, break (and then fix) enterprise security, and lead a council of 4 500 peers—always championing ethical, human-centric tech.
Production Projects
Users Supported
Boost in UX Retention
AI & Security Experience
Skills & Expertise
A polyglot toolbox spanning model prototyping to production hardening.
Featured Projects
A snapshot of research-driven builds and red-team escapades.
Experience
Crafting solutions, teaching minds, leading communities.
Resolve complex IT tickets for 30 000+ students & faculty, maintain 99.1 % uptime across labs, and harden systems against SSH & driver exploits.
Conduct cutting-edge research on state-sponsored malware using Python-based ETL pipelines, static code analysis, and machine learning. Led classification of 70,000+ behavior logs with a precision-tuned active learning model that outperformed SOTA by 9pp. Collaborated with Columbia and EU-based researchers to publish findings, reducing false positives by 17.8% and uncovering 18 high-priority threats across Russian, North Korean, and Turkish APTs.
Designed data-driven sites (ftth24x7, AIAAUTD, HRCR LLP) using UX A/B testing, SEO, and secure DevOps workflows - lifting retention by 23.5 %.
Taught 500+ freshmen C++ & Unity3D, created holographic Dino game for HoloLens, and scaled curriculum to 800+ global students during COVID.
Steward $150 k budget, lead data-driven initiatives for 4 500 residents, and oversee exec board to execute campus-wide programs.
Let's Connect
Have a daring idea or a gnarly breach to patch? - drop me a line.