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The library now includes technical briefs around AI products, robustness, backend systems, published work, and the original demo documents.

12 documents
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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