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    "name": "Tarik Metin",
    "label": "Research Software Engineer, Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP), Johns Hopkins University · Co-Founder & CTO, Pebl Health Inc",
    "phone": "657 246 6619",
    "url": "https://tarikmetin.com",
    "summary": "Computer science at Johns Hopkins (BS May 2026, MSE expected December 2026). Co-Founder & CTO of Pebl Health; Research Software Engineer at the JHU Center for Language and Speech Processing.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Baltimore",
      "region": "MD",
      "countryCode": "US"
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    {
      "name": "Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP), Johns Hopkins University",
      "position": "Research Software Engineer",
      "location": "Baltimore, MD",
      "startDate": "2026-02",
      "summary": "Built the interface and non-NLP product systems for a social-media experiment designed to bridge communities and broaden perspectives.",
      "highlights": [
        "Designed a social platform that pulls people out of their filter bubble toward unfamiliar communities and perspectives. There is a live demo."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "House of Nur, JHU Hacker House",
      "position": "Founder & Organizer",
      "location": "Baltimore, MD",
      "startDate": "2025-08",
      "summary": "Founded and lead an eight-person hacker house: a basement robotics and electronics lab, an Embodied AI club, Biryani Wednesdays, visits from professors and deans, and shared systems for living."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pebl Health Inc",
      "position": "Co-Founder & CTO",
      "location": "Baltimore, MD",
      "startDate": "2024-09",
      "summary": "Took a patent-pending handheld biometrics logger from concept through firmware, PCB design, enclosure CAD, and native iOS and web apps; it is now entering injection-molded production. Raising a $1.5M pre-seed; completed the AARP AgeTech Accelerator, NSF I-Corps, and the Johns Hopkins Pava Center Fuel accelerator.",
      "highlights": [
        "Invented a patent-pending biometrics logger and led a 3-person team from 3D design through PCB, firmware, iOS, and an AI health assistant."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Quantum Sensor Technologies, LLC",
      "position": "Research Assistant",
      "location": "Baltimore, MD",
      "startDate": "2024-06",
      "endDate": "2024-09",
      "summary": "Predicted vector magnetic fields from ODMR data with Fourier-transformed MLPs, and built a Python-driven lithography machine for micrometer-scale antenna manufacturing.",
      "highlights": [
        "Built machine-learning, vision, and precision-motion systems to read quantum magnetic-field data (ODMR) and drive micrometer-scale fabrication."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Intertek / Acumen Security",
      "position": "Security Engineer I",
      "location": "Rockville, MD",
      "startDate": "2022-09",
      "endDate": "2025-01",
      "summary": "Supported FIPS certification for Samsung, Oracle, and Intel modules, automated cybersecurity requirement testing with Python3 and C, and built a tokenization tool that turns module specs into security test plans.",
      "highlights": [
        "Automated FIPS and Common Criteria security-requirement testing and supported certification work for major technology companies."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Morgan State University",
      "position": "Engineering Intern",
      "location": "Baltimore, MD",
      "startDate": "2021-08",
      "endDate": "2022-01",
      "summary": "3D modeled, printed, and assembled a robotic prosthetic arm using Fusion 360 and Arduino."
    },
    {
      "name": "Maryland Turkish American Inhabitants (MARTI)",
      "position": "Outreach Coordinator & Youth Mentor",
      "location": "Columbia, MD",
      "url": "https://themarti.org",
      "startDate": "2019-09",
      "summary": "Mentored 5th-12th graders for years and coordinated the mentor team, founded a STEM academy teaching cybersecurity and programming, and organized interfaith gatherings. This is the thread that runs under everything else here."
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    {
      "institution": "Johns Hopkins University",
      "area": "Computer Science",
      "studyType": "Bachelor of Science",
      "endDate": "2026-05",
      "score": "3.8 / 4.00",
      "courses": [
        "Artificial Intelligence",
        "Deep Learning",
        "Natural Language Processing",
        "Human Language Technology",
        "Robot Learning",
        "Embodied AI with Web-Scale Data",
        "Algorithms for Sensor-Based Robotics",
        "AI-Enabled Software Engineering",
        "Full-Stack JS",
        "UI & Mobile Applications",
        "Human Computer Interaction (Course Assistant)",
        "Augmented Reality",
        "Data Structures",
        "Algorithms",
        "Computer System Fundamentals",
        "Computer Networks",
        "Medical Device Cybersecurity",
        "Ethical Hacking"
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    {
      "title": "1st Place MedTech Hackathon"
    },
    {
      "title": "Robot Skills Champion"
    },
    {
      "title": "National Honor Society"
    },
    {
      "title": "Phi Theta Kappa"
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    {
      "name": "CrossWeave",
      "publisher": "CSCW '26",
      "releaseDate": "2026",
      "url": "https://client-git-dev-jhustack.vercel.app/ChineseEVs",
      "summary": "An AI-curated social media design that bridges communities and broadens perspectives."
    },
    {
      "name": "Effect of Constitutional AI Principles on LLM Responses",
      "publisher": "BlueDot",
      "url": "https://tarikmetin.com/ai/constitutional_ai_principles",
      "summary": "Evaluated AI alignment techniques using RLHF models."
    },
    {
      "name": "Artificial Intelligence Today",
      "releaseDate": "2021",
      "url": "http://tarikmetin.com/ai",
      "summary": "Interviewed AI researchers at UMBC; analyzed AI ethics, transparency, and capabilities."
    }
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    {
      "name": "Programming",
      "keywords": [
        "Python",
        "TypeScript",
        "JavaScript",
        "C / C++",
        "Java",
        "SQL"
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    },
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      "name": "Web & Backend",
      "keywords": [
        "React",
        "React Native (Expo)",
        "Node.js / Express",
        "FastAPI",
        "REST",
        "WebRTC / WebSocket",
        "HTML / CSS / Tailwind"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "ML & AI",
      "keywords": [
        "PyTorch",
        "TensorFlow",
        "CUDA",
        "Whisper",
        "ONNX",
        "vLLM",
        "RAG",
        "embeddings / reranking",
        "Hugging Face"
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    },
    {
      "name": "Infra & Hardware",
      "keywords": [
        "Docker",
        "PostgreSQL",
        "Qdrant",
        "SQLite",
        "Firebase",
        "Cloudflare Tunnels",
        "Git",
        "Linux",
        "Embedded (ESP32, Arduino)",
        "PCB design (KiCad, EasyEDA)",
        "Fusion 360"
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  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Fluent"
    },
    {
      "language": "Turkish",
      "fluency": "Native"
    },
    {
      "language": "Arabic",
      "fluency": "Professional Working"
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      "name": "VEX Robotics Team 6460",
      "description": "Competition robotics made engineering physical: mechanisms, iteration, failure, repair, and teamwork under pressure.",
      "startDate": "2018",
      "endDate": "2019",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@TeamVexVideos",
      "type": "First machines"
    },
    {
      "name": "Artificial Intelligence Today",
      "description": "Four UMBC expert interviews became a paper, presentation, video, and an early investigation of AI ethics, transparency, and capability.",
      "startDate": "2021",
      "endDate": "2021",
      "url": "http://tarikmetin.com/ai",
      "type": "Intern Mentor research"
    },
    {
      "name": "PLTW Engineering",
      "description": "Bridge testing, mechanisms, circuits, aerodynamics, and prototyping expanded robotics into a broader engineering practice.",
      "startDate": "2021",
      "endDate": "2022",
      "type": "Making foundations"
    },
    {
      "name": "MentorTracker",
      "description": "Built a React and Firebase portal that let mentors set goals and follow a mentee’s personal development over time.",
      "startDate": "2024-03",
      "endDate": "2024-04",
      "url": "https://mentortracker.org",
      "type": "Mentoring infrastructure"
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    {
      "name": "OpenRealtime, self-hosted OpenAI Realtime API replacement",
      "description": "A voice-agent server that speaks the OpenAI Realtime API protocol over WebRTC and WebSocket (clients switch with a one-line base-URL change): 835 ms median voice-to-voice latency and 81 ms barge-in. Silero VAD and smart-turn end-of-turn detection, Whisper large-v3-turbo on a custom CUDA-graph decoder, a cloud LLM, and Kokoro-82M TTS, with ASR and TTS local on GPU. Speculative transcription and provider hedging cut about 250 ms per turn; a tool-calling harness for open-weight models scores 31/32 on a tool-use eval. 700+ tests; runs on a single DGX Spark. Python, PyTorch/CUDA, aiortc, ONNX."
    },
    {
      "name": "ThinkAloud, AI-moderated usability testing platform",
      "description": "A full-stack platform where a voice-AI moderator runs think-aloud usability studies on a researcher's own web app: it gives tasks, probes silent participants with non-leading follow-ups through a tool-calling state machine, and records outcomes and standard questionnaires (SUS, UMUX-Lite, SEQ, NASA-TLX, NPS). Session replays, transcripts, interaction events, optional on-device webcam eye tracking, consent and data-deletion flows, Stripe metered billing, and 120+ unit plus Playwright end-to-end tests. TypeScript, React 19, Express 5, SQLite, WebRTC/WebSocket."
    },
    {
      "name": "HizmetSearch, multilingual RAG search engine",
      "description": "A retrieval-augmented search engine over a 573k-chunk multilingual (Turkish, Arabic, English) corpus: FastAPI, Qdrant, PostgreSQL, and SQLite FTS5 hybrid retrieval with cross-encoder reranking, self-hosted as a five-service Docker stack, serving 1,000+ searches per month.",
      "url": "https://hizmetsearch.com/"
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    {
      "name": "Secure Product Development Framework (SPDF), ESP-IDF reference implementation",
      "description": "A secure firmware reference implementation for medical telemetry devices on the ESP32-S3: secure boot, record-level encryption, threat modeling, and SBOM traceability. Advised by Dr. Michael Rushanan.",
      "url": "https://tarikmetin.com/spdf-workbench.html"
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    {
      "name": "Memory-SmolVLA",
      "description": "SmolVLA with a memory module: long-horizon (LIBERO-10) success went from 72% to 76% over a tuned baseline, and 88.75% overall on LIBERO (the SmolVLA paper reports 87.3%).",
      "url": "https://github.com/aleksantari/memory-smolVLA"
    },
    {
      "name": "ClinicalScheduler.org",
      "description": "A React Native (iOS) shift-scheduling app for volunteer-run free clinics with push, email, and SMS reminders, two-way calendar sync, offline PWA support, and WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility."
    },
    {
      "name": "LinguaLeap",
      "description": "An adaptive language-learning platform built by a six-person team (Team 07) in the AI Software Engineering course at Johns Hopkins, spring 2026: voice-first practice and per-word mastery tracking. Stack: React, TypeScript, Convex, OpenAI Realtime, WebRTC.",
      "url": "https://dareal-lingualeap.netlify.app/"
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