Published work
2025
Math Escape Room: A Virtual/Blended Problem-Solving Adventure
Youssef Ibrahim
A narrative-driven digital escape room for secondary mathematics review using Google Forms and Genially, with timers, conditional branching, embedded hints, and instructor analytics that surface misconceptions in real time.
PedagogyOnline learningGamified instruction
Technical brief
Portfolio note
2026
Reliability Patterns for GPT-5 Product Assistants
Youssef Ibrahim
A portfolio note on structured prompting, feedback loops, trust boundaries, and why user-facing AI assistants need product discipline as much as model capability.
GPT-5Product AIReliability
Research note
Portfolio note
2025
Adversarial Robustness Evaluation for Practical LLM Systems
Youssef Ibrahim
A compact note connecting perturbation-based evaluation to real deployment questions around reliability, brittleness, and failure analysis.
Trustworthy AIEvaluationAdversarial testing
Technical brief
Portfolio note
2025
Designing Billing State Machines for Subscription Platforms
Youssef Ibrahim
A technical brief on subscription states, webhook handling, retries, entitlements, and why financial flows demand idempotent backend design.
StripeNode.jsState machines
Whitepaper
Portfolio note
2026
Latency Budgets for AI Assistants in User-Facing Products
Portfolio Demo Document
A demo-safe research note on decomposing end-to-end latency into retrieval, reasoning, rendering, and human-loop checkpoints.
LatencyAI systemsUX
Research note
Portfolio note
2025
Designing Observable Retrieval-Augmented Systems
Portfolio Demo Document
A compact framework for measuring retrieval quality, failure surfaces, and operational readiness in production assistants.
RAGEvaluationObservability
Essay
Portfolio note
2025
Interface Systems: Making Architecture Legible for Hiring and Delivery
Portfolio Demo Document
How premium interfaces, diagrams, and system narratives turn complexity into confidence for recruiters and stakeholders.
ArchitectureDesignDeveloper experience
Grant
Mitacs award
Mitacs • Awarded
Added to the grants layer as a Mitacs award, reinforcing the portfolio's research-translation, applied innovation, and industry-collaboration signal.
Research translationApplied innovationIndustry collaboration
Grant
2025
Graduate Research Assistantship appointment
University of Alberta • Appointed
Accepted a Graduate Research Assistant appointment at Campus Saint-Jean / Recherche & Études Supér from Nov 17, 2025 to Jan 31, 2026 under Samira ElAtia, adding a concrete graduate research-support signal to the portfolio.
Graduate assistantshipResearch supportCampus Saint-Jean
Grant
Portfolio packet
2026
Edge AI Systems Dossier
Applied AI funding packet • Proposal packet
A portfolio packet showing how applied ML work can be framed for grant-style review, with milestones, risks, and deliverables.
Edge inferenceApplied MLSystems research
Grant
Portfolio packet
2025
Human-in-the-Loop Quality Memo
Evaluation funding memo • Technical memo
A funding-style memo focused on quality control, evaluation coverage, and operator workflows for deployed assistants.
EvaluationSafetyOperations
Grant
Portfolio packet
2025
Research Tooling Modernization Proposal
Research infrastructure proposal • Proposal packet
A proposal-style packet for improving data workflows, dashboards, SOPs, and reproducibility infrastructure in research environments.
Research opsDashboardsReproducibility