17-year-old ICYS gold medalist. Competing in AI, shipping tools that matter.
Building at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity and developer tooling.
A Bio-Responsive Gold Nanoparticle Platform with Machine Learning Integration for Intelligent L-Cysteine Detection
A web application built around a machine-learning regression model that predicts L-cysteine concentration from the colour change of gold nanoparticles at different molar concentrations.
📄 Official results — ICYS 2026 (International Conference of Young Scientists)
- 🥇 ICYS 2026 Gold Medalist — Life Sciences category (see above)
- 🔐 Security enthusiast — practicing on Hack The Box, TryHackMe & CyLab Security Academy
- 🛠️ Builder — I ship practical tools: AI-powered apps, ML pipelines and innovative projects
- 🗣️ Languages — Romanian (native), English (fluent), German (beginner)
| Project | What it is | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| huggingface-project-learning | Romanian extractive QA fine-tuned on XQuAD-ro, benchmarking monolingual against multilingual BERT — plus GRPO implemented three ways: from scratch in raw PyTorch, with TRL, and with Unsloth | Transformers · TRL · Unsloth · Datasets |
| doc-assistant-hf | Document assistant with three modes: a QLoRA fine-tuned summarizer, a TextRank extractive summarizer built from scratch, and extractive QA with custom span decoding | PyTorch · PEFT · Transformers · Gradio |
| opencv-document-scanner | Finds a document in a photo, corrects the perspective and exports a clean scan in B&W, grayscale or enhanced colour — shipped as an installable package with a CLI, tests and CI | OpenCV · NumPy · pytest |
| captcha-solver-cnn | Splits 4-character CAPTCHAs into single glyphs with OpenCV contour detection, then classifies each with a CNN — ~99.5% validation accuracy | PyTorch · OpenCV |
Languages
AI & Core ML
Data Science & Analytics
Computer Vision
Tools & Platforms
| Certification | Issuer |
|---|---|
| 🥇 ICYS 2026 — Gold Medal, Life Sciences | ICYS |
| Cyber Security 101 | TryHackMe |
| AI Security | TryHackMe |
| The LLM Course — Unit 1 | Hugging Face |
| The LLM Course — Unit 3 | Hugging Face |
| The Reasoning Course — Fundamentals of GRPO | Hugging Face |
| Python | freeCodeCamp |
🖼️ View certificates
TryHackMe — Cyber Security 101
TryHackMe — AI Security
Hugging Face — The LLM Course, Unit 1
Hugging Face — The LLM Course, Unit 3
Hugging Face — The Reasoning Course, Fundamentals of GRPO
freeCodeCamp — Python
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