Selected projects
What I build on the side.
A running set of independent projects — small enough to finish, ambitious enough to learn from. Computational physics, machine learning applied to quantum systems, and the systems and cryptography I am exploring next. All open source.
Inertial Confinement Fusion
Toy models of laser-driven fusion — from the ignition cliff to the Xcimer pipeline.
The questionWhy is inertial-confinement fusion so hard — what actually stops a laser-driven capsule from igniting?
Quantum Machine Learning
Can a neural network learn to emulate a quantum gate? The answer is about data, not architecture.
The questionWhen you train a neural network to imitate a quantum gate, does the representation of its output decide whether the learned gate composes?
Machine Learning
Reinforcement-learning experiments on classic control.
The questionHow far can simple, tabular reinforcement learning get on classic control before you need function approximation?
Voices — publicly auditable ZK voting
A voting system where anyone can audit the election, nobody can see who you are, and you can still confirm your own vote counted.
The questionCan a blockchain vote be publicly auditable by anyone, secret to everyone, and personally verifiable — without handing the voter a receipt that a coercer could demand?
Deep RL plays Doom
A from-scratch PPO agent that learns to play Doom from raw pixels — and Doom you can play yourself.
The questionCan a neural network, seeing only the screen, learn to play Doom well — from nothing but a reward signal?