Research & Publications:

This section documents independent and collaborative research work focused on cognitive systems, reasoning architectures, and experimental physics.

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Aham: A Metacognitive Architecture for Latent-Steered Theory-of-Mind in LLMs
Independent Research · Preprint

An independent research preprint where I construct a controlled setting in which an architectural channel in a hybrid state-space/attention language model is free to organise its internal representations without measurably affecting the optimisation objective. The channel is "hormone routing": a token-conditional softmax-gated linear combination of a small bank of frozen direction vectors, added to the residual stream after each attention block. additionally describe "intracellular attention", a parameter-efficient slot-attention mechanism inside the SSM scan, as an architectural extension.

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Beamline for Schools (BL4S) - Positronium Pioneers
Collaborative Research · International Program

Core researcher on a collaborative physics research proposal investigating positronium-related phenomena under beamline conditions. Worked on the theory, experimental design, and feasibility analysis. The proposal advanced to the final-stage shortlist of the international CERN Beamline for Schools competition

BL4S Final Shortlist

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When Structure Doesn't Matter: Loss-Invariant Routing Specialisation in Hybrid Language Models
Independent Research · Preprint

An independent research preprint proposing a modular cognitive layer for mentalization-driven memory retrieval and behavioral modulation in large language models. The work explores structured reasoning, epistemic control, and architectural implications for adaptive and self-regulating AI systems.

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