Research & side work

Projects

Published machine learning research, a competition-funded navigation prototype, and games — the work that happened alongside the day job.

Machine Learning & Security Research

2022 – 2024
  • Co-authored "Application of Large Language Models to DDoS Attack Detection", published in the SmartSP 2023 proceedings (Springer LNICST) with USC faculty and PhD students.
  • Further unpublished work on LLM-driven automated spear phishing, and a BERT-based classifier detecting misleading news from headlines and article metadata.

Rendezvous Navigation

2021

Flutter, Google Maps API

  • Built a navigation app prototype that reached the finals of the European GNSS My Galileo Solution competition, earning €15,000 in prize funding.

Game Development

2021 – 2022

Unity, C#

  • Recreated the original Metroid with a new level and mechanics, prototyped at game jams, and published a title on itch.io with a small team.