Fardeen Bablu
I build iOS and full-stack products as a founding engineer.
Vanderbilt B.S. in CS + Math + Public Health.
Building Niyah and doing research at the Vanderbilt Institute of National Security
Selected work
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Niyah
A focus app where you stake your own money on a session: finish it and you keep the money, quit early and you forfeit it. Built in Swift with Screen Time extensions, Apple Pay, Stripe, and Plaid, plus Apple's FamilyControls Distribution entitlement.
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Sentinel
LLM refusal-decay research at Vanderbilt's Institute of National Security (Wicked Problems Lab). 300 HarmBench/AdvBench/JailbreakBench probes across GPT-4o, Claude, and DeepSeek-R1 over 4 threat domains.
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vectr
case study · live · whitepaper · pitch
Pre-arrival spatial intelligence for EMTs: scene intel, routing, and helicopter landing-zone scoring. Field-validated with Greene County EMS.
More
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spevents.live
case study · live · code
QR-code photo wall for live events.
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Site for Vanderbilt's Association of Bengali Students.
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Simulated maritime drone swarm: YOLOv8, A* routing, MQTT mesh.
2nd Place ($15K), AWS Mission Autonomy
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Object permanence bolted onto a vision-language model.
3rd Place ($2.5K), Ironsite Spatial Hackathon
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Outage-risk ML for Tennessee counties.
1st Place, Google Solutions Challenge
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NPForward
AR collectibles for the U.S. National Parks.
Top 5 Finalist, Accenture Innovation Challenge
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AI Pong
DQN and PPO agents vs a Pong clone built in C++/SDL2.
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Network Project
Healthcare-provider network analysis in NetworkX.
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QuizLITE
Offline flashcard desktop app in C++/Qt6.
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CrossSpec
Cross-species histopathology segmentation research.