M.Eng. Virginia Tech · Software Engineer

Making AI faster, smarter,
and more accessible.

Torrin Conrath
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AI Trust Metrics

A full-stack RAG system that quantifies how much you can trust an AI's answer. Documents are ingested, vectorized, and run through a multi-faceted confidence engine — combining consistency, sensitivity, and novelty scores — to produce a single explainable reliability score per query. Results stream to a React frontend; all activity is logged in PostgreSQL. This project was developed as a Virginia Tech Capstone, with the problem statement provided by Boeing.

Mugen AI

An AI-powered personal productivity app generator built at HooHacks 2026. Describe any app you want — a habit tracker, spending dashboard, mood journal — and Mugen builds it instantly as a fully functional React app, pre-filled with your own real data. Paste in raw text and Claude infers your schema, links your data sources, and ships a complete app in seconds.

Jerry The Medical Assistant

A fine-tuned medical chatbot built on Qwen-8B, designed to simplify complex medical jargon for older patients. Fine-tuned using SFT and LoRA on 20,000 doctor-patient dialogues, accelerated with vLLM and AWQ quantization, and evaluated with a 48.5 SARI score and a 4.5/5 usability rating.

Depression Severity Detector

A two-tier cascade pipeline that classifies depression severity in social media posts across four PHQ-9-aligned levels. A recall-optimised DistilBERT sentinel gates posts to a QLoRA fine-tuned Llama 3.1-8B reasoning engine, achieving 100% severe recall and strong macro F1 — while keeping inference efficient and safety-first.

ANLI Rationale Auditor

An NLP interpretability suite that probes whether a fine-tuned RoBERTa-large model actually reasons the way it claims to. Two custom metrics — Latent Alignment Score (LAS) and Causal Sensitivity Index (CSI) — measure how closely the model's internal state matches human-grounded rationales vs. post-hoc justification on the adversarial ANLI benchmark.

Robust Pest Detector

Real-time raccoon and rodent detection using lightweight YOLO models, deployed on edge hardware. Trained and compared YOLOv8n, YOLOv11n, and YOLOv11m across two custom datasets, stress-tested with synthetic augmentations, and deployed to a Raspberry Pi and desktop via a React dashboard.

Car Score Predictor

A full-stack mobile app that scores used car listings to surface real deals. Type in a car's details in plain text and get a data-driven value score back. This mechanism is powered by a neural network, an NLP parsing pipeline, and a live database fed by a web scraper.

Agent vs Ghosts

A top-down wave shooter built in Python and Pygame ported to HTML+JS. Dodge and shoot endless waves of escalating ghosts, collect 8 powerups, and survive as long as possible. Playable in the browser.

I am a software engineer and Virginia Tech M.Eng. alum driven by developing solutions with an actual purpose. My recent work focuses on making AI more lightweight and accessible across a larger number of consumers. I am also deeply interested in AI safety and interpretability. I want to build systems that do not just perform well but are transparent and trustworthy. My technical scope ranges from optimizing systems that run close to hardware and training models to shipping interfaces and full-stack applications tailored to read user needs.

torrinconrath@gmail.com ↗

Stack

  • LanguagesPython, JavaScript, TypeScript, C/C++, SQL
  • FrameworksReact, React Native, Flask, FastAPI, Expo
  • ML / AIPyTorch, Hugging Face, YOLO, OpenCV, vLLM, LangChain, Quantization, Transformer Models, LLMs, TFLite, ONNX, TextFooler, Tesseract, Claude API, ElevenLabs
  • InfrastructurePostgreSQL, MySQL, ChromaDB, Docker, AWS, Vercel, Supabase, Ngrok, WSL, Git, Unix, CI/CD, Github Actions, MLOps
  • HardwareRaspberry Pi, Edge Devices, Servers