About

I'm a recent computer science graduate (MS, University of Colorado Boulder) who moved to Copenhagen in Autumn of 2025. I'm currently enrolled in University of Copenhagen and Aalborg University taking classes in Reinforcement Learning and Generative AI. My research interests during my masters were in creating physics informed neural networks, bounding neural network outputs to respect physical constraints. Currently I'm exploring the internal mechanisms of LLMs, particularly how backdoors are encoded in LLMs and how they can be detected, and multimodal learning at Aalborg University under Yan Kyaw Tun.

Research Interests: AI Safety, Formal Verification, Mechanistic Interpretability, Physics-Informed Neural Networks, Reinforcement Learning

Research

Multimodal Learning & Missing Modalities · Aalborg University under Yan Kyaw Tun

Currently researching multimodal learning with missing modalities.

Education

Graduate Coursework · University of Copenhagen

Online Reinforcement Learning · Feb 2026 – Apr 2026

Graduate Coursework · Aalborg University

Reinforcement Learning with Generative AI · Feb 2026 – Apr 2026

MS Computer Science · University of Colorado Boulder

Graduate Certificate in Artificial Intelligence · GPA: 4.0 · 2025

BA Computer Science · University of Colorado Boulder

2021

Volunteer

DANSIC — Danish Social Innovation Club

AI Ethics & Sustainability · 2025 – Present

Contributing to initiatives at the intersection of AI ethics and sustainable development.

Coding Pirates

Tutor · 2025 – Present

Teaching kids programming fundamentals and hands-on microcontroller projects.

Projects

Predicting Soil Moisture Dynamics with Physics-Informed Neural Networks

Scientific Machine Learning · Precision Agriculture

Developed a PINN model to predict continuous 1D soil moisture profiles for precision irrigation, integrating the Richards Equation as a physics constraint. The model achieved PDE residuals of 1×10⁻⁷ and was validated against real-world sensor data from 57 stations across 8 global soil moisture networks (RMSE: 0.018 m³/m³). Transfer learning reduced training time by over 50% while enabling 24–72 hour predictions where traditional numerical solvers failed to converge.

PyTorch Julia PINNs Richards Equation Transfer Learning

Adversarial Backdoor Injection in LLMs

AI Safety · Adversarial ML

Investigate backdoor persistence in fine-tuned language models. Implemented a modular injection pipeline on Llama 3.2-3B using LoRA with 4-bit quantization, and developed a comprehensive evaluation framework measuring attack success rate, clean accuracy, trigger robustness, and poison efficiency across varying configurations.

PyTorch LoRA LLM Security Llama 3.2 RunPod

BitShogi — A Japanese Chess Game Engine

Game Engine · Bitboard Architecture

Built a complete mini shogi ("The Game of Generals") engine in Julia using bitboard representations for efficient move generation and board state management. The project includes a REST API server and a React/TypeScript web frontend playable at bitshogi.com. Featured in the Julia programming language newsletter as a community project.

Julia Bitboards React TypeScript Docker

Urban Management Model for Ride-Sharing

Multi-Agent Simulation · Optimization

Applied a multi-agent, ant-colony-inspired route-finding simulation to optimize ride-sharing routing in complex urban environments. Built a multithreaded Python simulation modeling pheromone-based pathfinding that adapts in real time to changing traffic conditions across diverse street network topologies.

Python Multi-Agent Systems Ant Colony Optimization Concurrency

Curriculum Vitae

A full PDF of my CV is available for download.

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