Ryan Swift Email & Phone Number

I'm a Computer Science PhD Student at the University of Southern California, advised by Prof. Konstantinos Psounis. I'm primarily interested in building explainable, robust, and safe AI-enabled systems with applications in domains such as computer security, advanced automotive systems, robotics and controls, and quantitative finance. I'm interested in technologies such as reinforcement learning (RL), graph neural networks (GNN), sparse autoencoders (SAE), and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).During my time at UC Davis, I was advised by Prof. Zubair Shafiq as I worked on a novel authentication scheme based on the behavior of DVFS (Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling) governors. As of the time of writing, the full paper hasn't yet been published, but I'd be more than happy to talk about the project with anyone interested.I'm also a bit of a Linux desktop enthusiast. I'm a huge fan of Neovim and I recently spent far too much time writing my configs for AwesomeWM and some of the other tools I use (check out my GitHub for my dotfiles). Once I have the time (and patience) I plan on hopping to NixOS, though Pop!_OS has been absolutely lovely in the two years that I've used it.