Malek Swilam

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Computer Engineering student at George Mason University's Honors College with a passion for machine learning, computer vision, and robotics.

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About

Hey, I'm Malek Swilam, and I'm studying Computer Engineering at George Mason University's Honors College.

I did ML research at GMU; co-built OCRadar, an AI app that screens for oral cancer with 98% accuracy; and led software development for an FTC robotics team.

Outside of tech, I'm an Eagle Scout, where I built leadership, community service, and a love for the outdoors.

Experience

Machine Learning Intern

Yanez Compliance ↗
Jun – Aug 2026 Remote

Face Passive Liveness & Anti-Spoofing

  • Built a face anti-spoofing ensemble combining a gradient-boosted model on 50+ engineered image cues with a CNN-based depth-predicting model, cutting error 72% versus the deployed rule-based system on unseen data
  • Designed a rank-based score fusion for models with incomparable output scales, catching 100% of real attacks that had bypassed the production system
  • Ran an ablation study that isolated a single feature family as the cause of a cross-dataset failure, correcting it in 8 of 8 model configurations
  • Developed a CNN-based depth model for face liveness detection, then ran a teacher-student distillation study that validated the architecture within 0.001 AUC of a research-only reference model
  • Built the evaluation harness reporting standard biometric metrics (APCER, BPCER, ACER, AUC) across in-domain and cross-domain test sets

Adversarial Document Tampering Pipeline

  • Automated document tampering to generate adversarial data at scale, stress-testing document and identity verification systems against forgery attacks
  • Increased pipeline throughput 500%+ through multi-threading and a load-aware scheduler routing workers to idle models, backed by a FIFO job queue for batch runs
  • Replaced general-purpose generative models with a dedicated image-to-image face-swap model that produced higher-fidelity, more consistent output at 85–93% lower cost per image
  • Eliminated 100% of API cost for non-Latin text tampering by replacing model-based generation with a fully local deterministic renderer, expanding writing-system coverage 5×
Computer Vision Deep Learning PyTorch Biometrics Anti-Spoofing Model Evaluation Dataset Engineering Gradient Boosting Distributed Processing Python

Engineering Intern

Alarm.com ↗
May 2026 Tysons Corner, VA · On-site
  • Performed hands-on hardware lab work including soldering buck converters and embedded boards, bringing up low-level power circuits and embedded components
  • Assembled RJ45 Ethernet cables and provisioned Raspberry Pi units, building out the physical test automation infrastructure used across the hardware QA team
  • Configured and integrated home security devices (locks, contact/tilt sensors, lighting, cameras, thermostats, doorbells, and Flex I/O) into automated testing workflows across hardware QA cycles
  • Built an internal tool for lab device management so the hardware QA team could track and provision devices in one place
Hardware QA Embedded Systems IoT Soldering Raspberry Pi AI Tooling Python

Machine Learning Research Intern

George Mason University, ASSIP ↗
Jun – Sep 2025 Fairfax, VA · Hybrid
  • Built a full ML pipeline (data preprocessing, training, evaluation) for short-term rainfall forecasting, implementing and comparing LSTM, XGBoost, and ensemble models evaluated via MAE, RMSE, and R²
  • Improved rainfall prediction accuracy by 12–15% over individual models by combining LSTM and XGBoost into an ensemble, achieving 96%+ of predictions within ±1 mm of actual
Python PyTorch LSTM XGBoost ML Pipelines
2023 – 2026 · 2 Seasons Vienna, VA
DECODE robot, practice cycle
  • Led all robot software development in Java across two varsity seasons; mentored junior programmers in Java, Git, and FTC SDK over summer offseason
  • Built autonomous localization pipeline fusing wheel odometry with IMU for pose estimation; integrated AprilTag detection for field-relative pose correction; implemented motion profiling and trajectory planning via Road Runner
  • Developed a multi-mode vision targeting system using a Limelight camera backed by a finite state machine; implemented a PD controller on angular error for closed-loop real-time turret aiming
  • Designed multi-subsystem PIDF control: turret with adaptive static friction and velocity feedforward; flywheel velocity controller with piecewise-linear distance-regression model for range compensation
  • Implemented a 3-DOF PD controller with field-to-body-frame error projection for pose stabilization during shooting; tuned all PID coefficients
  • Qualified for State Championship both seasons and World Championship one season (ranked 8th seed captain in division)
DECODE robot in 3D, drag to turn it
Java Computer Vision PIDF Control Sensor Fusion Localization & Path Planning Road Runner Git / GitHub

Projects

Voice-Controlled Robotics Agent

A robot arm you give commands out loud. Say “stack the red cube on the blue cylinder,” and Claude Sonnet breaks it into steps that a Franka Panda arm carries out one at a time in a MuJoCo simulation, with gravity and collisions live.

When a grip slips or a stack tips, it reads the new scene and replans. It never takes its own word for success: a second check compares the scene to the goal first.

Python MuJoCo Voice Control Agentic AI Embodied AI Anthropic API LLM Planning FastAPI
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OCRadar logo

OCRadar

A phone app that looks for early signs of oral cancer in a photo of your mouth. A CNN on Azure AI Custom Vision classifies the image, and the app says in plain language whether it’s worth getting checked by a dentist.

A team project, featured by WTOP News and the Korea Times. I joined in 2024 as COO and lead developer for Android and Windows.

Python Computer Vision Azure AI Custom Vision Swift SwiftUI Flutter Dart
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Desk Calendar Agent

A desk calendar you can text. Send “lunch with John Appleseed on Friday at noon” and a 3B model on a Raspberry Pi 5 turns it into a Google Calendar event, then the e-ink screen redraws.

The model and the voice transcription both run on the Pi, so only the calendar call leaves the device. Deterministic checks review every change first, and blocked every destructive action the model tried in testing.

Local LLM Prompt Engineering Quantization Edge Inference Agent Safety Tool Calling Prompt Caching Model Evaluation Speech Recognition Embedded Linux Python
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Sentry app icon

Sentry

In active development

A system monitor for macOS with iPhone and Apple Watch companions. It shows live CPU, GPU and memory in the menu bar, battery health over time, and thermals with fan control on Apple Silicon.

An MCP server and CLI let coding agents check the Mac has room before starting something heavy. Nothing leaves the machine: no cloud, no telemetry.

Systems Programming Distributed Systems Hardware Control Privileged Daemons Time-Series Data LLM Tooling AI Agent Infrastructure MCP Swift
Coming soon View on GitHub

Skills

Languages
Java Python Swift Dart JavaScript HTML / CSS
Libraries & Frameworks
PyTorch XGBoost NumPy FastAPI
AI & Agents
Local LLM MCP Tool Calling Agent Safety LLM Planning Anthropic API Edge Inference
Tools
Git / GitHub Ollama Azure AI MuJoCo FTC SDK
Hardware
Soldering Raspberry Pi SPI / GPIO E-ink Displays Embedded Linux
Focus
Machine Learning Computer Vision Robotics Biometrics

Honors & Awards

Education

Current 2026 – 30

Concurrent 2022 – 26

Oakton High School ↗

Advanced Studies Diploma

Aug 2022 – Jun 2026 · Vienna, VA

  • Advanced Data Structures & Algorithms
  • AP Computer Science A
  • AP Computer Science Principles
  • AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism
  • AP Physics C: Mechanics (exam only)
  • AP Physics 1
  • AP Calculus BC
  • AP Statistics
  • AP Pre-Calculus
  • STEM Advanced Engineering
  • Honors Chemistry
  • AP US History
  • AP US Government & Politics
  • AP World History
  • AP Macroeconomics
  • AP Microeconomics

Northern Virginia Community College ↗

Non-Degree Seeking · Dual Enrollment

GPA 4.0

Aug 2024 – 2026 · Annandale, VA

Dual Enrollment English 12 · Dual Enrollment Entrepreneurship

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