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Nikelroid/README.md

Nima Kelidari

MS Computer Science (AI) @ USC Viterbi · graduating Dec 2026

Large Language Models · Multimodal Learning · Numerical Optimization

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About

  • 🏥 Optimization intern at Memorial Sloan Kettering — GPU convex solvers behind radiotherapy planning (78 → 21 iterations, 3.7× faster)
  • 🔬 Graduate researcher at USC — LLM steering, speech models, RL agents
  • 📄 First-author paper at AIIDE 2026 (AAAI) · arXiv:2607.06854 · co-author preprint arXiv:2608.04669
  • 🎓 BS Computer Science, Sharif University of Technology
  • 💼 Open to full-time roles from Jan 2027, and PhD positions for Fall 2027

Research

  • 3D-DELTA — 50K-parameter head steering MoE routing at inference, 4× the SteerMoE (ICLR 2026) gain
  • Adversarial Co-Evolution — distributed PPO/TRPO against LLM opponents · AIIDE 2026
  • Language-Agnostic SER — 6 speech encoders × 8 datasets; sparse autoencoders isolate 61 emotion features

Stack

Python Java C++ SQL · PyTorch JAX TensorFlow Hugging Face vLLM · CUDA CuPy SLURM · Docker Kubernetes Jenkins MLflow FastAPI · GCP AWS · ROS

🎸 For fun: Dastan — play guitar with hand gestures through your webcam. More in the full project index.

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  1. adversarial-coevolution adversarial-coevolution Public

    Adversarial Co-Evolution of RL and LLM Agents: A framework for training high-performance PPO agents against Large Language Models in Gin Rummy, utilizing curriculum learning and knowledge distillat…

    Python 1

  2. multimodal-sentiment-classification multimodal-sentiment-classification Public

    A multimodal deep learning framework that fuses visual features from EfficientNet and textual features from BERT to classify sentiment in image-text conversations using the MSCTD dataset.

    Jupyter Notebook 9 2

  3. anime-recommender-application anime-recommender-application Public

    An end-to-end MLOps project implementing a deep learning-based anime recommendation system with automated CI/CD deployment to Google Kubernetes Engine.

    Python

  4. image-compression-svd-fft image-compression-svd-fft Public

    A Python implementation of lossy image compression and reconstruction utilizing Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) techniques for optimal storage efficiency.

    Jupyter Notebook 3

  5. artist-explorer-app artist-explorer-app Public

    A comprehensive full-stack web and Android application for exploring artists and artworks using the Artsy API, featuring JWT authentication, MongoDB favorites, and an experimental AI assistant.

    HTML

  6. mysql-metadata-manager mysql-metadata-manager Public

    A Python-based GUI application using Tkinter and MySQL to reverse-engineer, manage, and export database schema metadata.

    Jupyter Notebook 3