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.

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.

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