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University of Virginia
ML Research Assistant
Inference-time activation-steering research focused on language-model visual bias.
Nov 2025 – May 2026Charlottesville, VA
Plate 01 / Ambition needs systems
Engineer · Researcher · Builder
Brett Haas
I build intelligent systems that hold up in the real world.
Full-stack software engineer building reliable, intelligent products across web, mobile, and AI systems.
Explore selected work616K+COCO captions filteredUniversity of Virginia
28.9%RMS next-token bias reductionUniversity of Virginia
55%load-time improvementRefraction Innovation Hub
99.5%crash-free sessionsRefraction Innovation Hub
01 / Craft
The craft behind the flight.
My work sits where software engineering, machine learning, and product judgment meet.
I like difficult systems with visible stakes: steering model behavior, testing frontier agents, and shipping cross-platform products whose performance can be measured—not merely described.
Research systems
Production engineering
Human-centered interfaces
02 / Flight log
Trajectory
From research and evaluation to production mobile systems: a path shaped by rigor, iteration, and useful outcomes.
02
Scale AI
GenAI Technical Advisor Intern · SEAL
Frontier-model safety, evaluation, and agent reliability work on the Scale AI SEAL team.
Jun 2025 – Dec 2025Remote, USA
03
Refraction Innovation Hub
Software Engineer Intern
Cross-platform nutrition and food-recognition product development across mobile, AI, and cloud systems.
Jun 2025 – Aug 2025McLean, VA
04
University of Virginia
B.S. in Computer Science
Systems, cybersecurity, software engineering, and machine-learning research.
May 2026GPA 3.7
03 / Field studies
Selected work
Three builds across computer vision, product interface, and language-model research. Each chapter is presented in full—no hidden cards or modal detours.
Court Vision
Computer vision basketball analytics platform for shot tracking and player movement insights.
Brief
Turn basketball footage into practical, coach-friendly signals for reviewing shots, movement, and possession.
Approach
Extract event-level patterns from video, then organize the results in a focused visualization layer for fast game review.
Technical focus
Computer-vision analysis, event pipelines, movement trends, and readable sports analytics.
Beat Stream
Music streaming and discovery experience focused on smooth playback, curation, and social sharing.
Brief
Make music discovery, playback, curation, and playlist sharing feel immediate in a modern web experience.
Approach
Reduce the distance between search and listening with quick interaction loops and a clear information hierarchy.
Technical focus
React interface architecture, audio playback, discovery flows, and responsive product design.
Vision Bias Steering
LLM steering experiments for shifting model outputs between spatial and descriptive language.
Brief
Study whether inference-time steering can shift captions between spatial and descriptive language without retraining model weights.
Approach
Train and validate steering vectors, run local and multi-model sweeps, then compare language behavior through evaluation and plotting utilities.
Technical focus
PyTorch experimentation, NNSight interventions, reproducible sweeps, and language-model evaluation.
04 / Next horizon
Keep building.
I’m interested in ambitious engineering teams working across intelligent systems, reliable products, and applied research.
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