applied cryptography @ duke university [pre-college], security analysis @ palo alto networks, ex-coinbase, ex-cruise; erdős–bacon # = 6 and can recite all of Tombstone; bats left, shoots threes, plays bass; 4 kids, 2 dogs, and ludmila; southern drawl in san francisco. he/him. independent fieldwork

midrangeOS is an algorithmic exploration into mapping basketball sequences as modal jazz; ingredients: markov chains, entropy knobs for surprise, tension, and temperature, followed by dissonance filtering, semitone-safe LUTs, and vocal phrasing in real time (e.g., hook a play-by-play gametime stats API into a hardware synthesizer for live beats).

tempoglyphics is a symbolic composition language for translating basketball sequences into weighted movements that can be interpreted by midrangeOS and mathematically shaped into musical phrasing, eventually becoming modal chord progressions that preserve the kineticity within on-court movements.

recursive accumulation networks (RANs) are cryptographic structures for designing field ciphers that take on the form of a cascading sponge-based PRF, capable of achieving full diffusion in a single round while retaining a balance of hand-operable elegance and cryptanalytical resistance to non-computer adversaries (e.g., humans).

trail mix is a structural composition language for implementing modular field ciphers (e.g., RANs), allowing for a granular, human-parsable taxonomy of cryptographic components that shape the structures' approach to confusion and diffusion. an "EP" of these designs, the trail mix tapes, is in production.

cipher clerk is a role-trained, machine learning–driven cryptographic workbench for designing and analyzing modernized, hand-operable field ciphers—implemented in trail mix and constrained by cold war–era tradecraft—drawing inspiration from codebreaking poet elizebeth smith friedman and flautist-turned-cryptanalyst lambros demetrios callimahos.

feistelytics is a formalized taxonomic framework for classifying feistel-type block ciphers, as an extension of kelsey and schneier's work on UFNs, affording a searchable database of attributes (e.g., unbalanced, homogenous, target-heavy) and the cryptanalysis associated with their various configurations.

springmaus, inspired by the unpredictable vertical escape trajectories of jerboas, is an alternating, unbalanced feistel network (UFN) field cipher that mimics the impact attenuation and energy return of midsole foams used in basketball shoes, like nike’s reactx (TPE+EVA) and zoomx (PEBA), through a cycle of compression and expansion-based round functions.

the adversarial game of cryptographic design is a ongoing two-week summer course at duke university, as part of its pre-college program, which explores strategic unpredictability across multiple domains, from iverson crossing jordan in '97 to the predator-evading escape trajectories of a jerboa.