Falcon Market — Student Exchange Platform
Marketplace for NYUAD students to exchange campus dining currency, compare rates, and connect through verified profiles.
Next.jsTypeScriptSupabasePostgreSQL
websystemsdata
CS + Applied Mathematics · NYU Abu Dhabi
HailemariamMersha.
I research secure and efficient AI systems, and build dependable software that turns ambitious ideas into useful products.
Focus
AI Security · ML Systems
About
I'm Hailemariam — a Computer Science student and Applied Mathematics minor at NYU Abu Dhabi. I study how language models behave under adversarial pressure and how efficiently their generated programs run.
At SANAD Lab, I researched prompt injection in autonomous blockchain trading agents and built PerfArena, a reproducible benchmark for the correctness, runtime, memory, and energy use of LLM-generated code. At eBrain Lab, I co-authored an EMNLP 2026 submission on multimodal jailbreak attacks.
Outside research I ship full-stack products, including Falcon Market, a secure student exchange platform, and Locify, an AI-native tour guide. I also serve as a Residential Assistant and Spiritual Life Ambassador on campus.
B.S. Computer Science · Minor in Applied Mathematics
NYU Abu Dhabi · Aug 2023 – May 2027
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Relevant coursework
Applied Machine LearningDeep LearningComputer VisionComputer SecurityAlgorithmsData StructuresOperating SystemsComputer NetworksAgile Software Development
GitHub Activity
Right now
LLM security and generated-code efficiency
SANAD Lab & eBrain Lab · 2026
5+
research projects
7+
shipped projects
3+
years coding
Featured work
Selected work spanning full-stack systems, applied AI, and computer vision.
FALCON MARKET
NYUAD student exchange
BUY
2.14
current rate
SELL
2.08
current rate
01 / 03 · 2026
Falcon Market — Student Exchange Platform
Problem
Built and deployed a student marketplace for exchanging campus dining currency, comparing current rates, and connecting through public profiles. Implemented NYU-only Google authentication and PostgreSQL row-level security to enforce account eligibility and data ownership.
Approach
Added offer editing and renewal with seven-day expiry, hourly rate-history snapshots, persistent dark mode, and database and browser tests for core workflows..
Result
See the code.
Next.jsTypeScriptSupabasePostgreSQL
● AI narrating nearby POIs…
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque — 0.4 km
02 / 03 · 2025
maptourai (Locify)
Problem
Built at HackPrinceton Fall 2025, maptourai is a real-time AI tour guide. It discovers nearby historical POIs via Foursquare + Brave search, then streams context-aware narrations through GPT-4.1/Claude via MCP agents.
Approach
The backend is a FastAPI service with location-aware caching; the frontend is Next.js with Mapbox GL for smooth map interactions..
Result
See the code.
Next.jsMapbox GLFastAPIPythonMCP Agents
person 0.87
chair 0.72
precision
0.60
recall
0.73
03 / 03 · 2025
Moved Object Detection with DETR
Problem
Fine-tuned the DETR (Detection Transformer) model on pixel-difference frame pairs to detect moved objects in video. Ran systematic ablations on learning rate, backbone freezing, and augmentation strategies.
Approach
Best checkpoint achieved val precision 0.60 and recall 0.73, with automated evaluation visualizations for every run..
Result
See the code.
Hugging FaceDETRPyTorchPythonSLURM
Research
Undergraduate research spanning LLM security, code efficiency, climate science, and NLP.
2026
2024
2025
2024
Live ML Demos
Both demos run entirely in your browser — no server, no data sent anywhere.
Prompt Injection Detector
Runs locally in your browser — no server
local
Try examples:
Benign:
Malicious:
BERT Layer Explorer
Semantic drift across transformer layers
simulated
Select a polysemous word:
Sentence A (financial sense):
I need to go to the bank to deposit my paycheck.
Sentence B (different sense):
We went fishing by the river bank at sunset.
All Projects
8 projects across ML, systems, and the web.
maptourai (Locify)
AI-native tour guide that tracks user location, caches POIs, and serves narrations generated via Dedalus MCP agents.
Next.jsMapbox GLFastAPIPython+3
mlweb
CNN from Scratch & ResNet18
Built a mini-CNN framework with numeric gradient checks; fine-tuned ResNet18 on EMNIST, reaching 96.5% test accuracy.
PyTorchPythonSLURMHPC+1
mlcv
Moved Object Detection with DETR
Fine-tuned facebook/detr-resnet-50 on pixel-diff frame pairs; best val precision 0.60, recall 0.73.
Hugging FaceDETRPyTorchPython+1
cvml
TypeRush: Word Storm
Typing game with auth, difficulty levels, and live leaderboards tracking WPM and accuracy; deployed on Render.
ExpressMongoDBNode.jsTailwind CSS+1
web
CoApp — College Application Platform
Full-stack platform with AI essay feedback, Common App guides, and peer-review workflow; 200+ students in first month.
JavaScriptNode.jsCohere AIHTML+1
webnlp
Task Management System
RESTful task manager with user auth, priority/status filters, and containerized deployment.
FlaskPostgreSQLDockerPython+1
websystems
Bipartite Matching on VIRAT
Hungarian-matching pipeline combining IoU, centroid distance, and class cues for multi-object tracking.
PythonSciPyOpenCVNumPy
cvsystems
Experience
Research, engineering, and leadership across NYU Abu Dhabi and beyond.
2026
Research Assistant
Research- Researched prompt injection attacks on autonomous blockchain trading agents and performance benchmarking of LLM-generated code.
- Built adversarial token-metadata datasets and evaluation pipelines for obfuscation techniques, risk indicators, and model robustness.
- Built PerfArena to benchmark generated code across correctness, runtime, peak memory, and execution energy over 9,152 test cases spanning 93 LeetCode problems.
- Designed statistical rankings using bootstrap confidence intervals, Mann–Whitney tests, and multiple-comparison correction.
PythonLLMsBlockchainSecurity
Research Assistant
Research- Co-authored a paper on multimodal LLM jailbreak attacks, submitted to EMNLP 2026.
- Designed ablations of semantic alignment and visual complexity and automated adversarial evaluation at scale.
PythonHPCLLMsRed Teaming
2025
Software Engineer Intern
EngineeringLetsrise·Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Shipped three production features using React and Tailwind CSS for a platform serving 5,000+ users.
- Implemented Firebase authentication and Stripe payments with Node.js/Express.
- Optimized frontend code reducing page load times by 25%.
ReactTailwind CSSNode.jsExpressFirebaseStripe
Helpdesk Technical Specialist
EngineeringNYU Steinhardt·New York, USA
- Provided front-line IT support to 200+ faculty, staff, and students.
- Managed and prioritized helpdesk tickets and documented recurring fixes in knowledge-base articles.
IT SupportNetworkingHardware
2024
Data Analyst
Research- Processed and analyzed over 1 TB of CMIP6 and ERA5 climate datasets on HPC clusters.
- Automated Python-based analysis and visualization of over 40 years of climate data.
PythonxarrayHPCNetCDFData Analysis
Undergraduate Research Assistant — Mobile App Energy Efficiency
ResearchNYU Abu Dhabi·Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Benchmarked energy use of mobile apps, identified optimizations, and reduced consumption by up to 12%.
AndroidiOSPower ProfilingPerformance Analysis
Residential Assistant & Spiritual Life Ambassador
LeadershipNYU Abu Dhabi·Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Serve as first point of contact for 40+ residents on conflict resolution and campus resources and facilitate community wellbeing programming.
President
LeadershipEthiopian and Eritrean Students Association·Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Organized 5+ cultural events for 100+ students and managed $1,000 budget.
Get in touch
Open to research collaborations, internships, and interesting conversations about ML security, computer vision, or anything in between.
Email me →Or press ⌘K to open the terminal and try sudo hire-me.