Gashon Hussein

I'm a student at Stanfordstudying Computer Science and Philosophy with a concentration in Machine Learning.

I'm currently a research assistant at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab — working on creating more expressive hidden states for recurrent neural networks with the Test-Time Training Group. In the past I worked on training large protein language models.

Previously
  • - Google X
  • - Google Cloud
  • - AWS
  • - CascadingAI
  • - Krane
  • - Trunk Tools
Some Projects:
  • RMSNorm Triton Kernel: Custom Triton kernel for a root square mean normalization layer with fused activation + benchmarking against native and Pytorch jit compiled RMSNorm.

  • ICMP Tunnel Chat: Steganographic peer-to-peer chatting application in rust that encapsulates utf-8 messages inside ICMP echo packets.

  • @gashon/analytics: An analytics sdk with support for metadata foreign key linking, session tracking, browser fingerprinting, mouse click events, cursor hotspots, visit duration, referrer logging, and bot mitigation.

  • fuse-blog: A mountable, virtual FUSE filesytem for reading and righting my blog posts.

  • i3-lru: A least recently used workspace switcher for i3wm published on the arch linux user repository.

  • BGP Peering Analysis: Python and bash utilities that use GoBGP to peer onto the public Internet and analyze the received routing table to record local peering relationships.

  • Multitask Bert: Fine-tuned multitask BERT (sentiment classification, paraphrase detection, and semantic similarity).

  • Tor Nodes: I run and operate a few bridge nodes to contribute to the Tor network.

  • Privnote V.2: Send encrypted messages that self-destruct after being read. Front page of hacker news.

  • Niftie: Student note-taking webapp with generative AI powered memory enhancement features (quiz generation, summarization, auto highlight, mnemonic suggestions, conceptual ascii flow diagrams, and more).

  • Recursive Descent Interpreter: A top-down Pratt interpreter written in Golang.

  • Blockchain & AI Against Music Piracy: Stanford Hackathon winning project, leverages IPFS, NFT Certs, and Ethereum L2 blockchain to secure artists' ownership over their work, automating DMCA claims for small artists.

  • High School Portfolio: My high school Colorado scholastic art award portfolio.