Barath Velmurugan

Teaches a small open model (Qwen 2B) to play a persistent open-world MMORPG through long-horizon, tool-mediated actions, with teacher and student sharing one typed 17-tool API. Copying a stronger cross-family teacher made the student worse; on-policy distillation from a same-family teacher lifted it from 12 to 18 out of 30 on a long-horizon quest benchmark.

A replication and extension of Anthropic's subliminal-learning result across both image and language models; it traces the effect to the two models starting from the same initialization rather than to the training data, and reconciles two published numbers that had disagreed.

A small team of cooperating agents (a researcher, a reviser, and an LLM judge) that grades how faithfully an AI's answers stay grounded in their sources and how much of the relevant material it retrieves, with per-call cost and latency tracing; built on Google's ADK and runs fully offline.

Turns synthetic medical records and claims into training examples where every clinical statement traces back to the exact source it came from, gated by automated privacy and grounding checks; dependency-free, 54 tests.

A tool for studying what happens when a language model is left talking to itself: it detects when the conversation converges into a repeating pattern using embedding similarity rather than the eye, and tests whether the opening prompt predicts where it lands; runs fully local.

A finance voice assistant built around one rule: speech recognition and the LLM only turn what you say into structured commands, while plain deterministic code makes every real decision and calculation, so the model can't invent a transaction; 85+ tests.

Gives your Mac a searchable memory of what has been on screen: it captures and reads the screen locally, then lets you search by keyword or meaning and ask questions, with every answer linked back to the moment it appeared; nothing leaves your machine.

An AI coding playground for kids: describe a game and it builds a playable version, then shows the real code behind it and lets them ask questions and remix each other's work; 3rd place at the Claude Builders @ MIT hackathon.

A full member portal for a school volleyball club, with sign-in, analytics, and event registration, built end to end with Flask, Streamlit, and SQLite; an earlier team project.