Building
- At SettleMint — Director, Digital Assets. Solutions architecture and pre-sales across Japan and Germany; recent engagements include Sony Bank’s first stablecoin issuance, OCBC’s three-year on-premise platform implementation, and the Islamic Development Bank Institute’s Sharia-compliant trading mechanism.
- AstroLLM — pre-training phase. Working on the data-engineering pipeline for ADS bulk ingestion and the synthetic SFT dataset with provenance tracking. Public beta target Q3 2026.
- QMI Lab Pillar I — Cross-Lingual Transfer Through Romanization. Experimental setup; arXiv preprint target Q3 2026, EMNLP workshop submission planned.
- QMI Lab Pillar II — Hybrid Quantum-Classical Transformer NLP. Experimental harness in development; baseline classical heads benchmarked; encoding-strategy ablations being designed. arXiv preprint target mid-2026.
Reading
- Bowles, Ahmed, Schuld (2024) — Better than classical? The subtle art of benchmarking quantum machine learning models.
- Schuld, Sweke, Meyer (2021) — Effect of data encoding on the expressive power of variational quantum-machine-learning models.
Learning
- IBM Qiskit Developer certification in progress.
- NLP coursework alongside the romanization project.
Where
Currently in Tokyo; Stuttgart for family and work travel.