Parker Patton
574-371-6442 · jppatton@crimson.ua.edu · linkedin.com/in/jparkerpatton · github.com/catears124 · parker.ml
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Education
The University of Alabama — B.S. Mathematics, minor in Computer Science, August 2025–present; expected graduation May 2028. Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Fall 2026 coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, Software Engineering, Calculus III, Differential Equations.
Experience
AI Safety Lab — The University of Alabama
September 2026–present · Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- Developed a low-dimensional latent-space attack using video-to-video models for downstream classifiers; ran a 24-shard, 2,400-clip GPU campaign and achieved 94.5% attack success at 27–30 dB PSNR.
- Mapped decoder–classifier geometry with Jacobian and gradient projections; found 47.3× above-chance task-gradient concentration while 90.7% attack success persisted outside dominant decoder modes across 300 Kinetics-400 clips.
LLM Interpretability Research — Algoverse AI Research
May–September 2026 · Remote
- Designed a content-matched 2×2 factorial experiment with over 11,520 matched prompts and three Llama checkpoints; extracted residual-stream representations at each transformer block and fit held-family-out linear probes.
- Identified a prompt-format confound: naive probes achieved 0.600–0.682 AUC, while format-controlled probes reached 0.989–0.998 AUC and generalized across unseen formats at 0.940–0.985 AUC.
Financial ML Research — The University of Alabama at Birmingham
June 2024–May 2025 · Birmingham, Alabama
- Built a diffusion-empirical model for next-day return distributions across five assets and 45 walk-forward folds.
- Raised volatility R² from 0.179 to 0.197 and reduced CRPS by 0.30% versus EWMA across 14,175 out-of-sample forecasts.
- Presented at the ASFA Symposium; awarded Honorable Mention in CARSEF Math & CS.
Projects
tablet.ears.cat
Python, TypeScript, C, ARM firmware · September 2026–present · Web installer · GitHub
- Developed custom firmware for the Gaomon S620 graphics tablet and deployed a web installer to over 7,000 users.
- Reverse-engineered OEM firmware, increased polling from 266 Hz to 1,000 Hz, and eliminated over 15 ms of input latency.
NullMap (HackMIT 2026)
Python, FastAPI, Elasticsearch, React · September 2026 · Project
- Built a resumable ingestion and embedding pipeline indexing over 2.1 million OpenAlex and ClinicalTrials.gov studies.
- Combined BM25 and kNN retrieval to optimize LLM context, reaching 19 seconds and $0.021 per query with an 88% cost reduction.
- Deployed in 24 hours and won second place in Elastic’s “Find the Signal” sponsor challenge at HackMIT 2026.
osu!rankguess
Python, PyTorch, FastAPI, ONNX, PostgreSQL · March–August 2026 · GitHub · Deployed app
- Built and published osu!3k, a multimodal dataset of 3,000 gameplay videos, replay files, and player metadata.
- Trained a CatBoost/computer-vision ensemble reaching 0.846 R² and 1.84% MAE when predicting percentile from a single sample.
- Deployed a FastAPI/ONNX platform on Vercel with replay parsing, CPU inference, and PostgreSQL storage.
Independent Smart-Contract Security Research
Solidity, Foundry, EIP-712, HyperEVM · June 2026
- Responsibly disclosed two settlement vulnerabilities in live options contracts by reverse-engineering EIP-712 signatures, packed calldata, and balance-debit paths.
- Found 38 post-expiry settlements across 800 live transactions and reproduced both flaws on a mainnet fork.
Technical Skills
Languages: Python, C/C++, TypeScript, SQL, Solidity.
ML & Data: PyTorch, scikit-learn, NumPy, pandas, CatBoost, ONNX.
Backend & Web: FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Next.js, React.
Tools & Platforms: Git, Linux, Docker, Slurm, Vercel, GCP, AWS, GitHub Actions.