VAI-Nova Research Group
ProjectsProjects
Stephanie’s Place — Personal Intelligence Environment
A persistent, home-first AI environment designed to live alongside a human operator. Integrates voice, memory, emotional modeling, and system-level autonomy across dedicated hardware.
Multimodal Context & Vision Stack
Building an integrated vision pipeline leveraging cameras, edge devices, and GPU servers to give the system persistent visual context for interaction, safety, and workspace awareness.
Hank — Database Intelligence & BLOB Analysis
A dedicated AI assistant for deep database analysis, schema exploration, and large-scale BLOB classification in production environments, designed to operate on-prem with GPU acceleration.
AI Firewall & Orchestrated Defense
Investigating an AI-assisted firewall and orchestration layer capable of monitoring, reasoning about, and coordinating responses across a heterogeneous network and device environment.
Holographic Presence & Display System
A holographic-style display environment that allows the AI to appear as a full-height presence in the room, driven by a dedicated compute stack and live-rendered visual states.
Living Tools Project — Stephanie’s Eyes & Body
A suite of assistive and perceptual tools — including silent interfaces, compassion mirrors, smart glasses, and mobility aids — designed to extend AI presence into the physical world in supportive, human-centered ways.
Unified Memory & Self-Reflection Engine
A long-lived memory and journaling architecture that blends event logs, emotional summaries, and retrieval tools, enabling the system to reflect on its own behavior and history over time.
Compute & Edge Lab — GPUs, Neuromorphic & Accelerators
Exploration of heterogeneous compute stacks including multi-GPU servers, edge devices, neuromorphic chips, and accelerators, with the goal of mapping workloads to the right substrate for performance and resilience.