Projects

Everything else 9 projects

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  BMAA × TDP-43 flies

  Does a Florida cyanobacteria toxin tip ALS-model flies into motor decline?

  NeurosciencePlanned2026

  Chronic low-dose BMAA in flies expressing human TDP-43 (wild-type and M337V), with L-serine as a possible block. 2×2×2 design; climbing, TDP-43 localization and lifespan as readouts. Protocol written, waiting on fly lines and approvals.

  

  

  

  

  Read the proposal →
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  PhysMent

  A benchmark where language models have to run physics experiments to find the answer.

  AIPublished2026

  Models drive a live MuJoCo simulator through a 26-function API. 105 scenes, 7 models: up to 80% on simple tasks, under 30% on the hardest. Third AI for MATH Workshop at ICML 2026. Co-author.

  Read the paper →
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  Who do you think you're talking to?

  Same chatbot, different label: people rated it warmer and more trustworthy when told it was human.

  AIUnder review2026

  IRB-approved study, 60 college students, three sessions over two weeks, with Vito Borio. The effect showed up in the first chat and never faded (Wilks' Λ = .609).

  Paper under submission (double-blind, anonymized), so it isn't posted yet.
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  Self-driving golf cart

  Turning a 2018 GEM e4 into a cart that drives itself.

  RoboticsActive2026

  Wiring, firmware, ROS nodes and perception, built from the control stack up. Steering and braking under computer control first. With Dr. Hahn at FAU.

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  LarvaTrack

  Measures how far a fruit-fly larva crawls, from a phone video.

  NeuroscienceBuilt2026

  Tracks larvae across several petri dishes at once, so crawling assays don't need a lab camera rig.

  Code on GitHub ↗
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  MidasMap

  Finds gold particles in electron-microscope images of synapses, so nobody has to count them by hand.

  NeuroscienceArchived2026

  CenterNet on a CEM500K-pretrained ResNet-50 with a BiFPN neck. With A.D. Henderson / FAU High.

  Code on GitHub ↗
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  FLARE

  Reads a robot policy's hidden state to flag failures before they happen.

  RoboticsRejected2025

  A small probe on frozen VLA policies (OpenVLA, ACT) that runs in under 1 ms per step. My first first-author paper. It was rejected, and the reviews shaped how I test GAIN.

  

  

  Read the paper →
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  Feeling the Frequency

  Classifying what someone is doing from EEG and smartwatch motion.

  NeuroscienceArchived2024

  Per-subject models across 31 subjects and four activities, about 85% mean validation accuracy.

  Code on GitHub ↗
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  The Nose Knows

  A low-cost electronic nose that tells coffee from air.

  AIArchived2023

  Wio Terminal and a Grove multichannel gas sensor feeding a small classifier. A middle-school science-fair project.

  Code on GitHub ↗