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Academic Projects

Research projects and theory-first investigations spanning LLMs, fairness, generative modeling, and bio-imaging.

Watercolor illustration for the SDFT Mixture-of-Experts post
Academic Project

Does SDFT Survive the Jump to Mixture-of-Experts?

A theory-first investigation: derive the bound that decides whether self-distillation's trust-region guarantee survives in a Mixture-of-Experts, then measure directly where a real 16B MoE lands on it.

Mixture-of-Experts SDFT Trust Region LLMs
Microscopy image of glowing cells
Academic Project

Foundation Model for Cell Painting (CellPainTR)

A novel contrastive learning framework to explicitly disentangle biological signals from nuisance variables (like batch effects) in high-content imaging data.

Transformers Self-Supervised Bio-informatics
Academic Project

Mitigating Racial Bias in Face Age Progression

An investigation into fairness for generative models. We modified a StyleGAN-based age progression model to mitigate racial bias by promoting more equitable transformations across demographics.

Generative Models Fairness in AI StyleGAN