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Language Model Loss Captures Mutual Intelligibility Gradients in Turkic Languages
Moldir Baidildinova, Shiva Upadhye, Austin Wagner (UC Irvine)

• Accepted at HSP 2026 (39th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, MIT) and Tu+11 (11th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic, MIT)
• Character-level LSTM trained on 6 Turkic languages + Finnish (control), all transliterated to broad IPA
• Built on Turkic API — rules-based IPA transliteration with phonetic rules cited from peer-reviewed research

Plant Metabolomics & BVOCs

• Research on biogenic volatile organic compounds from tree leaf and root tissues across 9 California field sites
• GC-MS data processing pipeline: Tree Bot — peak detection, co-elution analysis, compound classification
• Interactive Metabolomics Dashboard — Welch's t-test with FDR correction, D3.js visualizations

All services live in my API monorepo — 13 microservices, 21 shared libraries, FastAPI + Redis + RQ architecture.

Covenant Radar Loan covenant monitoring with ML breach prediction — XGBoost, LightGBM, MLP, LSTM, Optuna optimization, Kafka streaming	Model Trainer GPT-2 and Char-LSTM training with LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning, mixed-precision (FP16/BF16), WandB integration
Turkic API Turkic language corpus processing — FastText detection, IPA transliteration (Cyrillic/Latin/Arabic), 9 languages	Grandma API Multi-language audio to English translation — Whisper STT, MMS-LID, GPT-4o-mini (57 languages)
Art Trainer LoRA/IP-Adapter training for Stable Diffusion 1.5, SDXL, and FLUX — auto-captioning, ComfyUI deployment	ClearGBM From-scratch gradient boosting — pure stdlib Python + high-performance Rust core via PyO3

Interactive data dashboards at austinwagner.org — see the Dashboards repo.

OC City Councils City council data for 34 Orange County cities — YAML-driven, SQLite-backed, GitHub Actions auto-rebuild

ASUCI Senate UC Irvine student-government voting records — Playwright web scraper + daily GitHub Actions cron

Multi-tenant AI operations platform (private repo — access on request)

30+ MCP servers powering document ingestion, meeting parsing, and knowledge synthesis. Custom 4-layer architecture enforcement — workspace guard rules + architecture tests + boot-time checks + MCP-tool rejection — that lint invariants CI-time so drift can't ship. Wiki-in-DB with primary-source audit chain (RLS-sliced tenant scoping, audit trail on writes). Tenant provisioning via canonical-writer pattern with policy-enforced sandbox namespaces. Deterministic parser fleet for meeting sources (5 platforms, 34+ agencies) with codegen-emitted migrations from a typed source registry. Semantic search via Nomic Embed v1 + HNSW (hnswlib-node). TypeScript + Python, Postgres 16 with RLS, Keycloak OAuth 2.1, Docker Compose orchestration.

Personal research wiki (private — architecture write-up on request)

559 atomic pages across 21 topic hubs (nursing quality improvement, mass surveillance & civil liberties, computational linguistics, atmospheric chemistry, QFT, metabolomics, others). SHA256-verified primary-source audit chain via local_pdf: frontmatter + a files/wiki archive; every claim is mechanically re-verifiable against a locally-archived PDF. Semantic search via Nomic Embed + HNSW. Cross-domain synthesis layer — pages can link into multiple hubs (polyhierarchy).

Contributor to microsoft/LightGBM — 9 PRs merged across Python type safety, C++ networking fixes, and test coverage.