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  "basics": {
    "name": "Parker Patton",
    "label": "ML Researcher and BS/MS Pure Mathematics Student",
    "email": "jppatton@crimson.ua.edu",
    "phone": "574-371-6442",
    "url": "https://www.ycty.ai",
    "location": { "city": "Tuscaloosa", "region": "Alabama", "countryCode": "US" },
    "profiles": [
      { "network": "GitHub", "username": "catears124", "url": "https://github.com/catears124" },
      { "network": "LinkedIn", "username": "jparkerpatton", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jparkerpatton" }
    ]
  },
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "The University of Alabama",
      "area": "Pure Mathematics",
      "studyType": "BS/MS",
      "startDate": "2025-08",
      "endDate": "2028-12",
      "courses": ["Real Analysis", "Data Structures & Algorithms", "Calculus III", "Differential Equations"]
    }
  ],
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Algoverse AI Research",
      "position": "LLM Interpretability Research",
      "location": "Remote",
      "startDate": "2026-05",
      "highlights": [
        "Investigating unverbalized evaluation awareness in LLMs under Madhur Panwar, targeting an ICLR submission.",
        "Developed an auditable 2,880-prompt bilingual English/Japanese dataset pipeline with Qwen and Gemini generation, blind verification, and deterministic QC.",
        "Designed a six-level incentive titration to separate explicit evaluation recognition from latent behavioral adaptation."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "The University of Alabama",
      "position": "AI Safety Lab Researcher",
      "location": "Tuscaloosa, AL",
      "startDate": "2025-09",
      "highlights": [
        "Developed a low-dimensional latent-space attack using video-to-video models; executed 3,652 trials across 686 source videos.",
        "Achieved 89.5% ASR (265/296 eligible Kinetics-400 clips) at 27-30 dB PSNR and 47% ASR from 16 latent dimensions.",
        "44/90 successful attacks remained misclassified after CogVideoX re-encoding."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "The University of Alabama at Birmingham",
      "position": "Financial ML Researcher",
      "location": "Birmingham, AL",
      "startDate": "2024-06",
      "endDate": "2025-05",
      "highlights": [
        "Developed a volatility-conditioned DDPM in PyTorch across eight assets.",
        "Demonstrated uncertainty calibration with CRPS 0.057 and Diebold-Mariano p = 0.002.",
        "Presented at ASFA Symposium; awarded Honorable Mention in CARSEF Math & CS."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "CS2Desk",
      "startDate": "2026-07",
      "url": "https://github.com/catears124/cs2desk",
      "description": "CS2 trade-up search engine using Python, TypeScript, Next.js, and SQLite.",
      "highlights": ["147,000+ Steam listings", "2.25M bid levels", "151,000+ contracts evaluated", "50,000-contract searches in under two seconds"]
    },
    {
      "name": "osu!rankguess",
      "startDate": "2026-03",
      "url": "https://osurankguess.com",
      "description": "Multimodal gameplay inference platform using Python, PyTorch, FastAPI, ONNX, and PostgreSQL.",
      "highlights": ["3,000 gameplay videos and replay files", "1,767 players", "0.846 R²", "1.84-point MAE"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Independent Smart-Contract Security Research",
      "startDate": "2026-06",
      "highlights": ["Responsibly disclosed two settlement vulnerabilities in live options contracts.", "Found 38 post-expiry settlements across 800 live transactions and reproduced both flaws on a mainnet fork."]
    }
  ],
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    { "name": "Frameworks", "keywords": ["PyTorch", "NumPy", "pandas", "Next.js"] },
    { "name": "Quantitative", "keywords": ["Diffusion Models", "Time-Series Forecasting", "Statistical Testing", "Financial Data Engineering"] },
    { "name": "Developer Tools", "keywords": ["Git", "Docker", "Google Cloud Platform", "AWS", "Linux", "Vercel", "Supabase", "GitHub Actions"] }
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