Zachariah Farahany
02 / Work

Selected Work

Research, production systems, and things built to answer a question. Each one ships with its code.

  1. 01
    Robotics

    SkySearch UAVs

    Open-source, multi-modal autonomous drone search with open-vocabulary target identification driven by multimodal LLMs. My MS thesis; 95% live-flight success.

    Python · Computer Vision · MLLM · DJI Tello
    PythonUpdated Feb 26, 2026
  2. 02
    Generative AI

    Denoising Diffusion Models

    Improving denoising-diffusion image generation through optimized noise scheduling for adversarial purification.

    PyTorch · Diffusion Models
    PythonUpdated Dec 20, 2022
  3. 03
    Machine Learning

    Predicting COVID-19 Length of Stay

    Neural-network length-of-stay prediction on high-dimensional EHR data, and the basis of an IEEE Big Data conference paper.

    ANN · SMOTE · Bayesian Optimization
    PythonUpdated Dec 13, 2022
  4. 04
    Distributed Systems

    Autonomous Weather Trading

    A multi-server platform that simulates a trading environment and trades commodities on weather-derived signals.

    Distributed Systems · Signals
    PythonUpdated Sep 24, 2025
  5. 05
    Generative AI

    Chartwell Insurance Assistant

    A production RAG-powered email-automation assistant that answers Chartwell’s most frequent support questions.

    GPT-4 · Pinecone · RAG
    PythonUpdated Nov 21, 2025
  6. 06
    Visualization

    Galaxy Graph

    An Obsidian plugin that renders an entire vault as a navigable 3D force-directed graph with orbit, zoom, inspector, and timeline replay modes.

    TypeScript · Obsidian Plugin API · 3D Graph Visualization
    TypeScriptUpdated Jul 9, 2026
  7. 07
    Machine Learning

    Transformer Translation

    Custom Transformer architectures for language translation, implemented in both PyTorch and TensorFlow with NVIDIA T4-backed training workflows.

    PyTorch · TensorFlow · Transformers · NLP
    Jupyter NotebookUpdated Feb 26, 2026