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Build & work
Research that stays in a paper is half finished. These are the systems and orgs where findings turn into something people can run—built for real-world conditions rather than benchmark performance.
Founder; Lead Developer | DeepTrust | August 2024 – Present
Founded DeepTrust after a personal deepfake incident revealed how quickly manipulated media can undermine trust, identity, and safety.
- One of the first consumer-facing, multi-modal, multi-lingual deepfake detection platforms with enterprise-grade accuracy
- Detects synthetic video, audio, image, and satellite media across languages—tuned for compression, distribution shift, and conditions outside benchmark sets
- AITruthCheck.app: installation-free tool aimed especially at seniors and teens; making enterprise-grade media verification accessible to everyday users, schools, journalists, and institutions
- Currently running school pilots to evaluate usability, student safety needs, and institutional adoption
- Patent-pending quad-stream detection and domain-shift evaluation methods grounded in three peer-reviewed IEEE research publications
- Conrad Challenge Finals — Top 5 global finalist; Blue Ocean Entrepreneurship Competition Top 100 Global; Mott Million Dollar Challenge semifinalist
Founding Engineer; Curriculum Developer | ML Summer | June 2025 – Present
- Built MLSummer.com's first machine learning model (algorithmic bias in loan approval data); guided students through the full research process from problem framing to publication
- Mentored students toward their first research publication—co-authoring Novel Machine Learning Approach to Loan Approval Predictions in IJARCCE
- Helped students connect machine learning to real-world questions of fairness, access, and automated decision-making
- Hands-on curriculum: training, evaluation, ethical analysis; students were part of the publication process
Co-Founder; Lead Developer | Atremo (now Hathor) | February 2022 – Present
Built and scaled a Gen-Z streetwear brand from scratch—1,000+ original apparel products sold. Led design, brand identity, full-stack e-commerce development, marketing, fulfillment, and customer experience end to end. Coordinated with international production partners on sampling, manufacturing, quality control, timelines, and inventory.
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Impact snapshot
Students, districts, pilots — where the work lands
- 6,000+ students reached (SVEF, National 4-H GIS AI, private school pilots combined)
- 35 school districts using Tech Demystified books
- 3 SVEF Elevate CS classes taught (summer 2025)
- 75+ students per year at Knowledge House STEM Academy
- 2 private schools running active DeepTrust / AITruthCheck pilots
- 3 books published; 1,000+ products sold (Atremo / Hathor)
Research to deployment — IEEE to school pilot in under a year
DeepTrust began as peer-reviewed work on domain shift in deepfake detection, became patent-pending platform and a public tool, and is now in active educational pilots—the research drove the product; the product reaches the people the research was written for.