APPLIED AI ENGINEER · HONG KONG / AVAILABLE GLOBALLY

I build software

Applied AI that survives contact with real data — document intelligence, agents, evaluation, and edge deployment.

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Source documents, queries, and user inputs shift distribution from what the pipeline was tuned on. New formats, languages, and edge cases arrive faster than chunking and parsing adapt, so provenance and access-control metadata silently go missing.

// Each stage has a characteristic failure mode. Evaluation catches them before deployment.

9PUBLICATIONS
8+YEARS IN AI RESEARCH
4+YEARS BUILDING SOFTWARE
M.PHIL.HKUST

Selected Work

Systems that survived user studies, evaluation gates, and production constraints — designed under ambiguity and shipped anyway.

01 / LLM NARRATIVE FRAMEWORK · 2024–2026

NARRATIVETOWN

A framework for authorial control and game-state consistency in LLM-driven interactive digital narratives — published at ACM CHI 2026 as my M.Phil. thesis work.

Role
Lead Researcher / Architect
Evidence
ACM CHI 2026 · M.Phil. Thesis HKUST · 28+ user studies
System
LLM Systems / Social-State Modelling / Canon Governance / Next.js
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NarrativeWorlds four-component system overview: Narrative Anvil (authoring), NarrativeHive (social orchestration), NarrativeSignals (state estimation), NarrativeTown (governance).
02 / GENERATIVE NARRATIVE AUTHORING · 2025

ORCHID

An LLM-driven authoring tool that balances authorial control with generative improvisation. Validated through user studies with 28 participants against Twine and AI Dungeon.

Role
Designer / Engineer
Evidence
ACM Creativity & Cognition 2025 · 28-participant user study
System
LLM Systems / Story Graphs / ChromaDB / React / WebSockets
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Orchid authoring tool overview showing story graph design and simulated player input testing.
03 / ML SYSTEMS + RUST · 2025

RUSTRAL

A 24-crate Rust neural network framework for auditable, backend-agnostic NLP research. No hidden global state, backend-independent model definitions, and reproducibility by construction.

Role
Architect / Engineer
Evidence
24 crates · 700+ tests · 3 interchangeable backends
System
Rust / ndarray+SIMD / Candle (CUDA/Metal) / WGPU / Reproducibility
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Rustral framework diagram: explicit ForwardCtx feeding backend-independent model definitions across three backends, emitting schema-validated reproducibility manifests.
04 / BACKUP & RECOVERY + WINDOWS SYSTEMS · 2026

SQLVAULT

A Windows Service that backs up SQL Server databases into a single vendor-owned Google Drive account. A gated validation pipeline proves restorability end-to-end before every upload.

Role
Engineer / Product
Evidence
MSI installer · E2E vs SQL Server 2022 · Deployed product
System
SQL Server / AES-256-GCM / Google Drive / Blazor Server / .NET 10
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SqlVault validation pipeline: preflight, BACKUP, VERIFYONLY, deep restore, AES-256-GCM encryption, ZIP packaging, Google Drive upload, with GFS retention and revalidation.
05 / AGENTIC AI + ALGORITHMIC TRADING · 2026

TRADERBRO

A 24/7 self-improving agentic AI trader on Deriv and cTrader. A deterministic engine of ~30 indicators gates every trade; an LLM council sits around it as a tie-breaker and risk-only veto.

Role
Architect / Engineer
Evidence
Deriv + cTrader · LLM council · Risk guardrails enforced in code
System
Python / React 19 / Vite / SQLite / Deriv / cTrader
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TraderBro two-layer system: deterministic decision gates with an LLM tie-breaker and a read-only council, feeding a persistent SQLite memory and learning loop.

How I Work

01

EVALUATE BEFORE DEPLOYMENT

Benchmarks, regression checks, and failure criteria — so teams compare models on evidence, not intuition.

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DESIGN FOR PRIVATE, MESSY DATA

OCR, extraction, and retrieval workflows for messy documents — secure, controllable, and auditable from day one.

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TRANSLATE RESEARCH INTO PRODUCTS

Papers to products: interfaces, demos, and internal tools your stakeholders will actually use.

Selected Publications [ ALL >> ]

2026 · ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Orchid-Creator: An Authoring Tool Supporting LLM-Driven Interactive Narrative Creation
Zhen Wu, Serkan Kumyol, Zhengyang Ma, Tristan Braud
2026 · M.Phil. Thesis, HKUST
NarrativeWorlds: A Framework for Authorial Control and Game-State Consistency in LLM-Driven Interactive Digital Narratives
Serkan Kumyol
2025 · INTERSPEECH
HK-GenSpeech: A Generative AI Scene Creation Framework for Speech Based Cognitive Assessment
Vi Jun Sean Yong, Serkan Kumyol, Pau Le Lisa Low, Suk Wai Winnie Leung, Tristan Braud

Selected Experience

Jun 2026 – Present
Principal Solutions Architect / Data Scientist
@ Tippin Co.
Feb 2026 – Apr 2026
Independent AI & Software Consultant
@ 2084 Futures Limited
Sep 2025 – Dec 2025
AI Analyst (Contract)
@ dRoW Limited
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