Projects & Research Proposals
A summary of graduate research proposals and undergraduate systems engineering projects.
Course Research Proposals (University of Waterloo)
Pre-Processing Guardrails for Emoji-Based Adversarial Jailbreak Defense in LLMs (CS886)
- Focus: AI Safety, Guardrails & LLM Security
- Overview: Formulated a pre-processing guardrail framework to mitigate emoji-based adversarial jailbreaks and safety risk detection in Large Language Models (LLMs). The proposed system maps and substitutes emoji inputs with text descriptions prior to inference, neutralizing emoji-triggered toxicity and adversarial bypasses while maintaining broad architecture compatibility.
- Proposal: Download PDF
AI-Assisted Lab Summaries: Progressive Disclosure Interfaces for Patient Portals (CS649)
- Focus: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) & Applied AI
- Overview: Designed a progressive-disclosure interface concept to present lab and clinical test results directly to patients in accessible language. The research investigates UI mechanisms that balance AI accuracy transparency, mitigate patient anxiety, and facilitate doctor-patient interaction without oversimplifying vital medical data.
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Undergraduate Projects (University of Jordan)
Autonomous UAV Path Planning in AirSim Using Reinforcement Learning (Graduation Project)
- Focus: Autonomous Systems & Reinforcement Learning
- Overview: Conducted an empirical evaluation of Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithms for autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) navigation in dense, indoor simulated environments using Microsoft AirSim.
- Project Artifacts: View Project Documentation & Code on Google Drive
Element Search HLSM & 5-Stage Pipelined Processor Architecture
- Focus: Digital Systems & Hardware Design
- Overview: Designed and implemented a High-Level State Machine (HLSM) in SystemVerilog for structured array element retrieval. Built alongside a full 5-stage pipelined processor in Verilog.