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Intelligence Systems

200+ AI applications built for education, research, and industry. Exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence, gaming, and human-centered learning.

Platform Demo

Student-Created Projects

These are not my projects. These were built by my students — people with no prior coding experience who learned to build intelligent systems from scratch.

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Student Project Live in Production

AI-Powered POS & Business Platform

Built for a real NZ business — by a student with zero coding background

The Story

I built an entire AI-powered business platform in front of my friend. He had never written a line of code in his life. Here’s what happened next — and why it changed how I think about AI entirely.

My friend runs a business in NZ. Over the years, he had stitched together a patchwork of separate software tools — one for this, another for that — each with its own subscription, its own login, its own learning curve. It worked. But just barely.

So I sat down with him. No slides. No pitch. Just questions. “Walk me through your day. What do you do first? Where do things slow down? What frustrates you?”

As he talked, I built. In real time, in front of him, I took every answer he gave me and turned it into automation — collapsing his scattered tools into a single, cohesive, AI-powered platform built specifically for how his business actually works. Not a template. Not a generic SaaS solution. His business, automated.

He has a school education. No university degree. No technical background. No prior exposure to software development. And yet — within a week of watching how it was done — he was building his own automations. Extending the platform. Solving new problems himself.

“AI has made the ability to build something remarkable completely independent of formal qualification.”

The old world said: to build software, you need a computer science degree. To automate business processes, you need a consultant. To deploy AI, you need a data science team. The new world says: you need curiosity, a clear understanding of your problem, and the willingness to ask the right questions.

Tech Stack

PWA Supabase Stripe QR Payments Kitchen Display AI Automation Xero Integration Real-time Sync

Development Process

① Interview — understand the business workflow

② Live build — convert answers into automation in real time

③ Handover — student watches, learns, takes over

④ Independence — student extends the platform themselves

🏆 Outcome

A student with no coding or university background is now building his own AI-powered automations. He’s planning to launch a new business: helping other small and medium enterprises across New Zealand do exactly what he experienced — automate, consolidate, and operate smarter without enterprise budgets or technical teams.

This is what our courses deliver: you become tech-enabled in a short time and create your own systems.

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Children’s Project AI + Robotics Running on Local NVIDIA

AI-Powered School Tutor & Humanoid Robot Companion

Built with a primary school student — who is now learning to create her own AI systems

The Story

Meet Rhianna. I’ve been babysitting her since before she could even speak, and now she’s in primary school. She’s soon going to launch her own LinkedIn account and personal website.

I gifted her a powerful NVIDIA PC and a humanoid robot. We sat together and discussed the kind of stuff she wants to create and the hurdles she faces in her studies. Then we got to work.

We created a complete AI-powered education app for NZ students from Year 1 to Year 13. The automated AI tutor teaches every subject covered in the New Zealand school curriculum and also includes language learning across numerous languages. The best part: we trained our own LLM model specifically designed for children, hosted on her own NVIDIA machine — and the model adjusts itself to the grade level of the student. We made sure it talks like a friend and brings humour into teaching.

We then created our own voice server for text-to-speech and speech-to-text, where the student can select any voice, accent, and language — and the app remembers their chosen style. We also deployed our own translator server on her NVIDIA machine.

And the best part — we linked the app to the humanoid robot and programmed it to use its vision, voice, and movement through voice control and through the education app. When the robot is asked to read something or explain what it’s seeing, it uses our models running on our servers. The robot moves and performs different tasks based on what the student wants. It makes funny movements based on what the student says and how they perform during learning.

We don’t even need access to the internet — everything is powered by her own NVIDIA machine.

“While schools debate whether to allow AI in classrooms, a primary school student is already building with it — training her own models, controlling a robot, and learning every subject through an AI companion that speaks her language.”

The old world says: children are consumers of technology. The new world says: children are builders of technology — if you give them the right tools and the right teacher. My mission is to empower children with AI and automation skills so they can start doing amazing work from a young age.

Tech Stack

NVIDIA RTX 4090 Custom LLM Local TTS Server Local STT Server Translator Server Humanoid Robot Computer Vision NZ Curriculum API Zero Cloud Dependency

Development Process

① Conversation — understand the child’s learning struggles

② Build together — create a full AI tutor covering Year 1–13

③ Personalise — custom LLM, voice, accent, and language choice

④ Connect the robot — vision, voice, and movement integration

⑤ Empower — train the child to build and extend it herself

🏆 Outcome

A primary school student now has her own NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure, a humanoid robot companion, and a personalised AI tutor that covers her entire school curriculum — all running locally with zero internet dependency and complete data privacy.

She is now learning to extend the system herself. I will train her, her cousins, and her friends — and within six months, they will start creating their own AI automation apps. She is planning to launch her own LinkedIn account and personal website to showcase her work.

This is the real promise: AI education doesn’t start at university. It starts the moment a child is curious enough to ask “how does this work?”

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Student Project AI + Advanced Analytics 437,006 Observations

Financial Hardship Dynamics — AI-Automated Research Platform

A business management student building her own AI-powered analytics systems after taking my course

The Story

She came from a business management background. No programming experience. No data science training. No exposure to machine learning or survival analysis. She enrolled in my analytics course — and what happened next is why I believe AI changes everything about how we do research.

Together, we built a complete AI-automated research analytics platform that analyses 21 years of longitudinal household data — 437,006 observations across 43,784 households — from one of the world’s largest high-dimensional panel datasets.

The platform doesn’t just run models. It automates the entire research pipeline: data preparation, variable construction, competing risks survival analysis, transition matrices, spell dynamics, and even auto-generates publication-ready draft sections with tables, figures, and AI-written commentary.

The research question itself is powerful: What is the first financial hardship a household experiences? How do they transition between hardship states? What determines who escapes and who gets trapped? The platform discovered that 49.6% of first-time hardship begins with unpaid bills, and that 93–96% of the lasting damage from hardship is psychological, not financial.

She is now extending the platform herself — adding new research topics, running her own models, and building analytical tools that would normally require an entire data science team.

“A business management student — with no prior coding experience — is now independently running survival analysis, competing risks models, and neural network research on 437,000 observations. That’s not a student. That’s a researcher.”

The old world said: to do advanced econometrics, you need years of statistics training. To run machine learning models, you need a computer science degree. To analyse panel data at this scale, you need an entire research team. AI collapsed all of that into one student, one course, and one platform.

Tech Stack

Python Dash Cox Competing Risks DeepHit Neural Networks Hybrid Cox-NN Model Random Survival Forests SHAP Explainability High-Dimensional Panel Data AI Draft Generator Local LLM

Development Process

① Course — learn analytics foundations and AI tools

② Data — prepare 21 years of panel data (437K observations)

③ Models — build Cox, DeepHit, and hybrid survival models

④ Automate — create full pipeline from raw data to draft

⑤ Extend — student adds new topics and runs independently

🏆 Outcome

A business management student with zero programming background delivered a research-grade analytics platform that processes one of the world’s largest household panel datasets. The platform runs five classes of survival models (Cox PH, Fine-Gray competing risks, Random Survival Forest, DeepHit, and a novel Hybrid Cox-Neural Network), generates transition matrices, spell analysis, and auto-writes publication-quality draft sections targeting A* and FT50 journals.

She is now independently extending the platform with new research topics — adding family network analysis, intergenerational transmission, and wellbeing cascade models — all built on the same AI-automated infrastructure.

This is the future of research: AI doesn’t replace researchers. It turns every curious student into one.

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Courses & Applications

๐Ÿ“š Educational Automation (15)

EdTech
๐Ÿ“š

ADTech Finance for Kids โ€” Gamified Financial Literacy Platform

A free, interactive platform designed to empower children with financial skills through gamified learning and personalis...

ReactNext.jsGenAI
EdTech
๐Ÿ“š

Cogniti AI Tutor โ€” Institutional-Grade Learning Assistant

An institutional-grade, course-specific AI learning assistant developed in collaboration with the University of Sydney a...

Azure OpenAICustom RAGUniversity Azure Infrastructure
EdTech
๐Ÿ“š

Multilingual AI Personal Tutor โ€” Vision + Speech + Text

A multilingual personal tutor that can see what is on the page or screen, listen to questions, speak clear explanations,...

Local LLMNVIDIA 4090Ollama
EdTech
๐Ÿ“š

AI-Powered Teaching App โ€” Mass Scale Education

An AI application for delivering education at mass scale, developed as a counterpoint to a $1.5 million Auckland Univers...

AIPythonWeb Platform
EdTech
๐Ÿ“š

Multilingual AI Vision App โ€” Self-Funded on NVIDIA 4090

An AI application capable of reading chats in multiple languages and replying instantly in the same language โ€” English, ...

NVIDIA 4090Local LLMOpenAI
EdTech
๐Ÿ“š

Inclusive Bilingual Mฤori AI Tutor

A bilingual AI tutor designed specifically for Mฤori language education, created as a personal commitment to supporting ...

Local LLMMฤori TTSNVIDIA 4090
EdTech
๐Ÿ“š

Universal Multilingual AI Tutor โ€” Education as a Right

An AI tutor that reads, hears, types, and speaks in every major language โ€” reading English on screen and explaining it i...

Multi-platformMultilingual AITTS/STT
EdTech
๐Ÿ“š

AI Examiner and Multi-Language Learning Platform

Major feature expansion of the AI-Powered Interactive Learning Platform adding: an AI Examiner with unlimited random pra...

RAGLocal LLMOllama
EdTech
๐Ÿ“š

Context-Aware AI Tutor โ€” Knows What Students Are Looking At

An AI tutor that tracks exactly what a student is looking at โ€” the video frame being watched, the text selected, the cod...

RAGVision AIVideo Processing
EdTech
๐Ÿ“š

Universal AI Learning Platform (UMEP) โ€” One App, Every Language

A standalone all-in-one learning environment containing all course materials, full SAS and Python consoles running in-br...

Local LLMNVIDIA GPUSAS
EdTech
๐Ÿ“š

GPU Web Server โ€” Democratising Research Computing for Students

A personal NVIDIA GPU converted into a web server hosting an academic research platform. Students access ML and AI model...

NVIDIA GPUWeb ServerFlask/Streamlit
EdTech
๐Ÿ“š

AI Education Platform โ€” Dual-AI Context-Aware System

A dual-AI education platform providing context-aware learning unlike generic AI assistants. One AI handles application f...

FlaskAzure AIPython
EdTech
๐Ÿ“š

Azure AI Education Platform โ€” Interactive Teaching Beyond Zoom

An AI-driven education platform hosted on Azure that surpasses Zoom and Teams. Left panel: an AI Technical Tutor (Azure ...

AzureGPT-4o-miniFlask
EdTech
๐Ÿ“š

AI-Powered Analytics, AI, and Robotics Education Platform

A comprehensive education platform using agentic AI and gamification to deliver interactive lectures, workshops, and sim...

AzureAgentic AIGamification
EdTech
๐Ÿ“š

Remotion - Education automation

I just built a professional lecture video using Remotion, React, and AI-assisted development. Traditional academia can't...

๐Ÿ“Š Business Analytics & Research Automation (12)

Data Science
๐Ÿ“Š

AI-Powered Retail Intelligence Platform on Snowflake

A machine learning-powered retail analytics platform that transforms 500K+ transactions into actionable business insight...

SnowflakeStreamlitPython
Data Science
๐Ÿ“Š

SAS + OpenAI Automation Pipeline 2.0 โ€” Desktop Tool

A desktop tool that fuses SAS analytics with OpenAI intelligence for one-click data analysis and reporting. Users point ...

SAS (all packages)OpenAIHTML/Word Export
Data Science
๐Ÿ“Š

SAS + AI End-to-End Pipeline Automation

An automated end-to-end SAS pipeline orchestrated by custom AI applications. From data ingestion in SAS through model tr...

SASAI OrchestrationDashboards
Research
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Data Emotionalisation โ€” "Millions of Stories, One Song"

A pioneering approach to research dissemination that transforms academic findings into AI-generated songs. The research ...

AI Audio GenerationAI Video GenerationNLP
Research
๐Ÿ”ฌ

ReCollab โ€” Unified Research Collaboration Platform

A first-of-its-kind research collaboration platform unifying version control (full Git integration), LaTeX editing (real...

GitLaTeXPython/R/Julia
Research
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ReCollab AI Research Automation โ€” One-Click Paper Generation

An extension of the ReCollab platform enabling one-click research workflows: automatic data analysis, full academic pape...

NVIDIA 4090Multi-Agent LLMGit
Research
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ReCollab โ€” Research Operating System at Scale

The unified research and industry collaboration system that collapses years of effort into days. ReCollab operates as a ...

NVIDIA 4090 SuperCustom LLMLive Streaming
Research
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Custom LLM for FT50 Academic Journal Automation

A custom-trained LLM built on 50+ papers from top finance and economics journals that writes in the voice of the Journal...

Custom LLMRAGNVIDIA 4090
Research
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FamNet โ€” Family Network Transmission Analysis Dashboard

An interactive dashboard for analysing how life events, financial hardship, and wellbeing transmit across family network...

PythonDashPlotly
Research
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Engineering Meets Business โ€” Interdisciplinary Research Platform

A research platform born from the fusion of engineering precision, business insight, and AI intelligence. Combines advan...

NVIDIA 4090EconometricsML
Research
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Recursive Panel ML โ€” New Mathematical and AI Model

A novel mathematical and AI model introducing Recursive Panel Machine Learning for predictive analytics. Unlike standard...

PythonCustom ML ArchitecturePanel Data Methods
Research
๐Ÿ”ฌ

Data Emotionalisation โ€” Am I my brothers' keeper?

Presenting my working paper: I lost sleep over a research question no traditional model could answer. When a father lose...

โšก AI Infrastructure & Automation (11)

AI & ML
โšก

Enterprise AI App โ€” Beyond ChatGPT with AWS and LangChain

An AI-powered enterprise application built on AWS Cloud using LangChain, OpenAI GPT, and Streamlit that goes beyond stan...

AWSLangChainOpenAI
AI & ML
โšก

Meta Quest 3 Virtual Reality AI App

An AI-powered application developed for the Meta Quest 3 virtual reality headset, combining immersive VR experiences wit...

Meta Quest 3Unity/UnrealAI APIs
AI & ML
โšก

Thought-Triggered Smartwatch App โ€” Brain-Computer Interface

A smartwatch application that detects cognitive intent through brainwave signals (EEG) and triggers watch actions withou...

EEG/BCI SensorsML ModelsSmartwatch SDK
AI & ML
โšก

Voice-Controlled Multi-Agent AI Network

An Android application enabling voice command control over multiple AI agents that communicate with each other autonomou...

AndroidOpenAIMulti-Agent Framework
AI & ML
โšก

AI CV Matcher โ€” Intelligent Career Matching Platform

An AI-powered web application that analyses uploaded CVs using GPT-4 to suggest relevant career directions across market...

OpenAI GPT-4StreamlitTwilio WhatsApp API
AI & ML
โšก

Smart Price Tracker for NZ Shoppers

An intelligent shopping companion that tracks live product prices across New Zealand e-commerce sites and sends real-tim...

PythonBeautifulSoupTwilio
AI & ML
โšก

Email-Triggered Autonomous Data Analysis Agent

An AI agent that activates automatically when data is sent to a designated email address. The agent downloads attached f...

OpenAIEmail APIsPDF Generation
AI & ML
โšก

Local AI Platform โ€” Outperforming Cloud on NVIDIA 4090

A custom AI infrastructure deployed on a personal NVIDIA 4090 GPU that outperforms OpenAI in both vision and speech task...

NVIDIA 4090LlamaOllama
AI & ML
โšก

Desktop as Private AI Data Centre โ€” Zero Cloud Cost

A personal NVIDIA RTX 4090 SUPER converted from a gaming GPU into an on-premises AI campus capable of: computer vision w...

NVIDIA 4090 SUPEROllamaLocal Vision/TTS/STT
AI & ML
โšก

Local AI Pipeline โ€” Full LLM Stack on RTX 4090

A complete local AI pipeline running on an RTX 4090 desktop integrating all LLM models locally (Llama and others), compu...

NVIDIA 4090LlamaOllama
AI & ML
โšก

Educational Claw

I solved a problem that haunted me for months. I've built 200+ AI-powered apps, 200+ multilingual courses, educational g...

๐Ÿ’ฐ FinTech & Financial Automation (18)

FinTech
๐Ÿ’ฐ

ADTech Trading Platform โ€” AI Trade Tool

An AI-powered trading application featuring an intelligent trade suggestion engine. The AI Trade Tool provides data-driv...

PythonOpenAIStreamlit
FinTech
๐Ÿ’ฐ

AI Credit Risk Analytics Dashboard

A fully interactive credit scoring dashboard powered by AI, AWS, and LangChain for real-time decision intelligence in fi...

AWS S3LangChainOpenAI
FinTech
๐Ÿ’ฐ

AI-Powered Fintech Budgeting and Investment Planner

A smart budgeting and investment planner featuring a conversational interface for tracking income, expenses, and savings...

StreamlitBotpressGemini
FinTech
๐Ÿ’ฐ

AI-Powered Financial Accountant

A Streamlit application that transforms raw financial statements into CFO-level insights within seconds. The system uses...

StreamlitDeepSeekOpenRouter
FinTech
๐Ÿ’ฐ

NZ Financial Advice AI Agent

An AI agent integrating Gemini and DeepSeek models to provide financial advice based on budget estimations. The agent is...

GeminiDeepSeekCustom Prompts
FinTech
๐Ÿ’ฐ

AI Financial Planning Agent

A web-hosted AI agent linked to ChatGPT that provides personalised financial planning based on client budgets and financ...

OpenAIStreamlitGitHub
FinTech
๐Ÿ’ฐ

NZ Financial Planning Platform โ€” KiwiSaver, Tax, Insurance

A complete financial planning platform built specifically for New Zealand, performing in one minute what traditionally c...

PythonStreamlitNZ Financial APIs
FinTech
๐Ÿ’ฐ

Azure FinCom App โ€” Financial Communication Platform

A financial communication platform built on Azure breaking down barriers in financial services through three capabilitie...

Azure STTAzure TTSAzure Translation
FinTech
๐Ÿ’ฐ

FinCom โ€” Full-Stack Financial Literacy Platform (Local + Cloud)

A full-stack financial literacy platform combining gamification, AI-based assistance, and real-time visualisation to tea...

ReactTailwindAzure (Entra ID
FinTech
๐Ÿ’ฐ

AI Equity Research Dashboard โ€” Institutional-Grade Reports

An AI-powered dashboard that produces complete, 20-page institutional-grade equity research reports in minutes. Performs...

PythonFlaskGemini 2.0
FinTech
๐Ÿ’ฐ

GPU-Powered Equity Research Automation โ€” NVIDIA 4090

An equity research workflow running entirely on a local NVIDIA 4090 desktop, automating reports for any public company. ...

NVIDIA 4090Local LLMyFinance
FinTech
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Agentic Equity Research Workflow โ€” Filing to First Draft

An end-to-end agentic workflow that automates equity research from raw SEC filings to first-draft reports with no extern...

PythonLLMSEC EDGAR
FinTech
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AI Annual Report Generator โ€” Walmart Case Study

An AI application that recreates a company's annual report page by page using raw financial data and AI-generated commen...

PythonOpenAIExcel Processing
FinTech
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AI Financial Modelling App โ€” Automated Forecasts to 2035

A finance application that transforms an Income Statement and Balance Sheet into robust financial models, long-range for...

PythonOpenAIExcel
FinTech
๐Ÿ’ฐ

Insurance Cost Prediction App โ€” 90% Accuracy

A machine learning application predicting insurance costs with 90% accuracy using age, BMI, smoking status, and other fa...

PythonScikit-learnXGBoost
FinTech
๐Ÿ’ฐ

Advanced Property Valuation Platform โ€” 13 ML Models

A property valuation platform combining 13 advanced ML models including Kernel Ridge Regression, XGBoost, LightGBM, CatB...

PythonScikit-learnXGBoost
FinTech
๐Ÿ’ฐ

Small Business Automation

NZ small businesses are being bled dry by subscription software โ€” hundreds per month for technology they could own. Whil...

FinTech
๐Ÿ’ฐ

Financial Modelling and Valuation Automation

I just modeled Fonterra's financial future in 5 minutes. Can New Zealand's dairy industry compete globally without this ...

๐ŸŽฎ Gamified Learning & Automation (6)

Educational Gaming
๐ŸŽฎ

Scrolls of Wisdom โ€” AAA Educational Game (Unreal Engine 5)

A AAA-rated educational game built in Unreal Engine 5 featuring triple-A quality graphics and gameplay. Includes solo qu...

Unreal Engine 5C++AI Companion
Educational Gaming
๐ŸŽฎ

Skill Islands Metaverse โ€” Global Analytics Tournament

The world's first global analytics and logical reasoning tournament inside a student metaverse. Features skill-specific ...

Unreal EngineC++Verse
Educational Gaming
๐ŸŽฎ

Wisdom Royale โ€” Free Educational Battle Royale (Fortnite UEFN)

A free battle royale game built in Fortnite UEFN where knowledge is the weapon. Players drop into a TMNT New York City m...

Fortnite UEFNVerse Programming
Educational Gaming
๐ŸŽฎ

GPA 6 โ€” Grand Point Average (Educational GTA Parody)

An educational open-world game inspired by GTA (Grand Theft Auto) โ€” but replacing violence with learning. GPA 6 (Grand P...

Unreal EngineGame DesignQuiz Systems
Educational Gaming
๐ŸŽฎ

Mario Kart Educational Racing Game

A custom Mario Kart-style racing game designed for gamified course teaching. Students race competitively while answering...

Game EngineRacing MechanicsQuiz Integration
Educational Gaming
๐ŸŽฎ

Temple Run Educational Game โ€” Knowledge Obstacles

An educational game modelled on Temple Run where questions serve as obstacles. Answer wrong and you stumble; answer righ...

Game EngineMobileLeaderboard System

๐Ÿฆพ Robotics & Physical AI Automation (19)

AI Robotics
๐Ÿฆพ

AI Robot Lecturer โ€” A Glimpse of the Future of Academia

A humanoid robot lecturer powered by an onboard LLM and OpenAI agent that watches presentation slides, explains them on ...

OpenAIAzure TTS/STTRaspberry Pi
AI Robotics
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Autonomous AI Companion Robot

A fully autonomous AI companion robot capable of real-time conversation on any topic. The robot maintains a permanent pr...

OpenAIAzure AIZoom
AI Robotics
๐Ÿฆพ

Autonomous Robot with Multilingual Assistant

An autonomous humanoid robot enhanced with a multilingual human assistant capability. The robot operates independently a...

PythonOpenAIAzure
AI Robotics
๐Ÿฆพ

AI-Powered TonyPi โ€” Three AI Engines Onboard

A TonyPi humanoid robot running three independent AI engines entirely onboard โ€” no cloud relay PC required. The robot se...

OpenAI VisionAzure TTSRaspberry Pi
AI Robotics
๐Ÿฆพ

Robot Financial Analyst with Documentary-Style Narration

A fully autonomous see โ†’ think โ†’ narrate pipeline built into a humanoid robot. The robot analyses a company's financial ...

OpenAI VisionAzure TTSPython
AI Robotics
๐Ÿฆพ

Robot with Onboard AI โ€” Local Vision and Voice

A humanoid robot running AI entirely inside its own system, matching the capability of cloud-based language models. The ...

Local LLMOpenAIAzure TTS
AI Robotics
๐Ÿฆพ

AI Robot Finance Coach for Children

A talking humanoid robot designed to teach financial literacy to children. The robot speaks and explains money concepts ...

OpenAIAzure TTSPython
AI Robotics
๐Ÿฆพ

AI Robot Lecturer 2.0 โ€” Always-On Zoom Teaching

An upgraded demonstration of the robot lecturer system with enhanced onboard LLM and OpenAI agent capabilities. The robo...

OpenAIAzure TTS/STTLLM
AI Robotics
๐Ÿฆพ

Trio App โ€” AI + Robotics Teaching Breakthrough

A complete hardware-software integration where a TonyPi humanoid robot joins Zoom calls, watches shared screens via HD c...

OpenAI VisionGPT-4Azure TTS/STT
AI Robotics
๐Ÿฆพ

Robot Lecturer That Never Sleeps

A humanoid robot that joins Zoom like a real professor, sees slides through its camera, understands every detail with AI...

OpenAI VisionAzure TTSZoom
AI Robotics
๐Ÿฆพ

Raspberry Pi Robot as 24/7 AI Lecturer

A Raspberry Pi-powered robot configured as a permanent AI lecturer in a Zoom room. The robot watches whatever students s...

Raspberry PiOpenAI VisionAzure TTS/STT
AI Robotics
๐Ÿฆพ

Robot as Autonomous AI Companion โ€” Full Independence

A milestone achievement where the humanoid robot transitions from a programmed machine to a fully autonomous AI companio...

OpenAIAzure AIZoom
AI Robotics
๐Ÿฆพ

24/7 AI Teaching Assistant Robot

A robot-based AI teaching assistant that maintains a permanent Zoom presence, allowing students to join anytime, anywher...

GPT-4 VisionAzure TTS/STTRaspberry Pi
AI Robotics
๐Ÿฆพ

Robot Running Zoom Autonomously โ€” Full AI Automation

A humanoid robot that runs Zoom meetings completely autonomously using its own HD camera as video feed, its own micropho...

Zoom SDKOpenAIAzure TTS/STT
AI Robotics
๐Ÿฆพ

AI-Powered TonyPi โ€” Three Onboard AI Engines (No Cloud PC)

A self-contained TonyPi humanoid running three AI engines entirely within its own hardware โ€” eliminating the need for a ...

OpenAI VisionAzure TTSRaspberry Pi
AI Robotics
๐Ÿฆพ

Robot Financial Analyst and Documentary Narrator

A fully autonomous see โ†’ think โ†’ narrate pipeline where a humanoid robot analyses company financial statements from its ...

OpenAI VisionAzure TTSPython
AI Robotics
๐Ÿฆพ

Talking Robot That Teaches Children Money Skills

A humanoid robot reimagining how children learn financial literacy โ€” replacing boring textbooks with interactive, embodi...

OpenAIAzure TTSPython
AI Robotics
๐Ÿฆพ

Cloud Robotics Network โ€” Distance-Agnostic Multi-Agent System

A distributed robotics architecture where autonomous agents separated by thousands of miles communicate seamlessly throu...

Azure Web AppAzure OpenAIAzure Speech
AI Robotics
๐Ÿฆพ

Real-World Robot Gaming โ€” From Screens to Streets

A vision for the next frontier of esports where gaming, robotics, and AI converge. Players use Xbox controllers to comma...

Xbox ControllersServo RoboticsCloud Gaming

What I Build

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Custom LLMs

Self-hosted large language models with zero cloud dependencies

🎮

AAA Game Dev

Unreal Engine 5 games for PC, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch

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Voice AI

Speech-to-text (Whisper) and text-to-speech (XTTS) systems

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Multilingual

Applications supporting 17+ languages with real-time translation

★ SAS Global Educator Award 2026
🎧 SAS Innovate 2026 — Texas
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Dr Adnan Balloch

Engineer. Researcher. Educator. Builder. Founder.

A career spanning four disciplines that rarely meet in one person: Electronics Engineering, Financial Economics, Management, and Artificial Intelligence. Taught at Durham University (UK), Aberystwyth University (UK) and its Mauritius campus, NED University of Engineering & Technology (Pakistan), Massey University (New Zealand) and its Singapore campus at PSB Academy — five countries across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.

Started as an Instrument & Control Engineer automating industrial giants across petroleum, telecoms, hospitals, manufacturing, and logistics — building safety-critical control systems for British Petroleum (BP), OMV, NRL, OGDCL, Pakistan Steel Mills, and Pak Suzuki. As an engineering undergraduate in 2002, built an interactive cable TV voting system via SMS that spread across South Asia — years before streaming existed.

After a PhD at Durham University (UK), led corporate finance teams at Deloitte, delivered projects for The World Bank and international investors, and collaborated with Silicon Valley AI startups. In New Zealand, advised the Ministry of Social Development, Financial Markets Authority, Retirement Commission, FinCap, IRD, major NZ banks, insurance providers, Ministry of Health, and District Health Boards.

Developed the first-ever university course using SAS Viya at a time when both academia and industry were barely aware of the platform. Shaped its V2 as a pilot participant, built SAS automation applications, and taught the entire SAS software ecosystem. In 2026, SAS Institute named me a Global SAS Educator Award winner — featured in the official press release, personally invited to SAS Innovate 2026 in Texas to receive the award among Fortune 100 executives and top tech leaders, and spotlighted at the inaugural SAS Educate APAC 2026.

Today building AutoMatrixLab — 200+ AI-powered applications, multilingual courses, and gamified learning for 500M+ Hindi, Urdu, and multilingual learners. At its core: “Educational Jarvis” — an always-on, screen-aware AI companion on local NVIDIA RTX 4090 infrastructure, orchestrating intelligent agents across every tool you use.

200+
AI Projects
5
Countries
5
Languages
22+
Years Experience

Experience

Senior Lecturer — Finance, AI & Analytics

Massey University, Auckland & Singapore (PSB Academy) | Jan 2018 – Present (7+ years)

Developed ‘Big Data in Finance and Banking’ and ‘Applied Econometrics Methods’ courses for Master of Analytics. Pioneered the first-ever university course using SAS Viya at a time when both academia and industry were barely aware of the platform. Shaped its V2 as a pilot participant providing direct technical feedback to the SAS USA team. Built SAS automation applications and taught across the entire SAS software ecosystem. Built 200+ AI applications on local NVIDIA RTX 4090 infrastructure. Supervised PhD and Master’s students in advanced analytics and household finance. Also taught at Massey’s Singapore campus at PSB Academy. Recipient of the 2026 SAS Global Educator Award.

Consultant — Public and Private Organizations

New Zealand | Jan 2019 – Present (6+ years)

Assisted Ministry of Social Development, Financial Markets Authority, Retirement Commission, FinCap, IRD, banks and insurance providers with data analytics consulting, policy research, and advanced econometric modelling.

Lecturer in Accounting & Finance

Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK & Mauritius Campus | Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 (2 years)

Program Leader for Accounting and Finance. Module Leader for Investments and Financial Instruments, Corporate Finance, Financial Management, Auditing, and Financial Accounting. Also taught at Aberystwyth’s transnational campus in Mauritius.

Consultant — AI and Analytics Joint Ventures

Silicon Valley & Global | Jan 2015 – Dec 2017 (3 years)

Assisted several organisations including Silicon Valley based startups with local and overseas artificial intelligence and analytics projects.

Consultant — Corporate Finance

Deloitte, Pakistan | Jan 2016 – Dec 2016

Led corporate finance teams in consulting and advisory projects for international clients including The World Bank and high-profile international investors. Provided training and mentorship to consulting teams.

Research Student Teacher

Durham University Business School, UK | Jan 2011 – Mar 2013

Taught seminars in Advanced Microeconomics and Economic Principles modules. Assisted postgraduate students in dissertation work.

Visiting Professor

Institute of Industrial Electronics Engineering (IIEE), NED University, Pakistan | 2006 – 2009

Taught Engineering Economics and Mathematics modules at the same institution where I graduated as an Industrial Electronics Engineer. Conducted workshops in computer programming and automation.

Assistant Manager — EMI/EMC Engineering & Quality Compliance

National Engineering & Scientific Commission of Pakistan | Jan 2006 – Dec 2010 (5 years)

Led ISO 9001, 14001 and OHSAS compliance and EMI/EMC Engineering across major industrial clients in petroleum, telecoms, hospitals, manufacturing, and logistics. Delivered automation and instrumentation projects for OGDCL, Pakistan Steel Mills, Pak Suzuki, and national telecom and healthcare infrastructure. Supervised quality management systems and electromagnetic compatibility testing across diverse industrial environments.

Instrument & Control Engineer

ENAR Petrotech Services Pvt. Ltd. | Jan 2005 – Dec 2005

Designed, implemented and supervised instrumentation and control systems for petroleum giants including British Petroleum (BP), OMV, and NRL. Automated industrial processes across petrochemical, manufacturing, and energy sectors — building safety-critical systems where failure means explosions, chemical leaks, or production losses costing millions per hour.

Industry Collaborations

SAS Institute — Global Educator Award & World Pioneer

First lecturer in the world to teach with SAS Viya — deploying it at a time when both academia and industry were barely aware of the platform. Shaped SAS Viya V2 as a handpicked pilot participant, providing direct technical feedback to SAS USA. Built SAS automation applications using cloud and local license installations. Taught the entire SAS software ecosystem: Base SAS, SAS/STAT, SAS/ETS, Enterprise Miner, Enterprise Guide, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/OR, SAS Studio, SAS Viya, JMP, and more. Recipient of the 2026 SAS Global Educator Award. Personally invited to SAS Innovate 2026 in Texas. Spotlighted at the inaugural SAS Educate APAC 2026.

New Zealand Government & Regulators

Assisted Ministry of Social Development, Financial Markets Authority, Retirement Commission, FinCap, IRD, Banks, Insurance providers, Ministry of Health, DHBs and manufacturing industries with analytics and subject matter advice.

Silicon Valley & Global Joint Ventures

Assisted several organisations including Silicon Valley based startups with local and overseas artificial intelligence and analytics projects through global joint venture collaborations.

Massey University Fin-Ed Centre

Completed several commissioned and noncommissioned analytics and research projects for Massey University Fin-Ed Centre, earning significant revenue for the school and the Centre.

Education

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PhD in Finance

Durham University Business School, UK | 2011–2015

Best Thesis Award • Distinction in all coursework

Commonwealth Scholarship (full fee and maintenance grant). Research focus on household finance, financial literacy, and stock market participation. Published in FT50 journals.

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MBA — Finance

Institute of Business Management, Pakistan | 2006–2008

Second Position — CGPA 3.68/4.0

Merit scholarship recipient. Foundation for transition from engineering to financial research and academia.

B.Eng — Electronics

NED University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan | 2001–2004

Fourth Position — CGPA 3.55/4.0

Merit scholarship (2001–2004). The engineering mindset that drives the technical architecture behind every AI project.

Research & Publications

Journal Publications

When It Rains It Drains: Psychological Distress and Household Net Worth

Journal of Banking and Finance (A* Journal) — 2022

Balloch, A., Engels, C. and Philip, D. Establishes a sizeable negative effect of poor mental health on net worth.

Stock Market Literacy, Trust and Participation

Review of Finance (FT50 Journal) — 2015

Balloch, A., Philip, D. & Nicolae, A. Examining financial literacy, trust, and stock market participation.

Shared Burden, Separate Scars: Economic Shock, Hardship Landing, and Intrahousehold Financial Anxiety Contagion

FamNet Research — 437,006 observations, 21 years HILDA data

Discovers that 93–96% of hardship damage is psychological. Hybrid Competing Risk Hit Model combining Cox, DeepHit, and neural survival analysis.

Investigating Critical Social and Economic Issues using Advanced Panel Data Models

NZ Retirement Commission Insights Bites — Apr 2022

Demonstrated the power of panel data and advanced models to resolve critical social and economic issues.

Conference Presentations

50th FMA Annual Meeting, New York (2020) Westpac Fin-Ed Conference, Auckland (2019) Royal Economic Society, Manchester (2015) British Accounting & Finance Association, Durham (2012) SAS Innovate 2026, Texas (Award Recipient & Invited Guest) SAS Educate APAC 2026 (Inaugural — Award Spotlight)

Consulting & Government Research Projects (26)

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