About

Research direction

My research centers on persistent artificial identity and long-term agency. Through AELIA at SENTIA Lab, I explore cognitive architectures involving perception, autobiographical memory, belief/world/self models, deliberation, affective appraisal, social relationships and Theory of Mind.

This is experimental work on computational models of consciousness-like and social behavior, not a claim to have created consciousness.

Systems & security engineering

My engineering work includes RiFT, an agent-assisted black-box web/API security research framework under RiFT Research, and Lattice, an early-stage P2P networking project for heterogeneous compute and edge nodes. I also work on client/runtime performance and infrastructure through Opus Client.

Technical background

My tools and areas of work include systems and backend programming, ML/LLM integrations, cognitive agent architectures and security tooling. I use Python, C/C++, Rust, Java, JavaScript and Node.js, together with Linux, Docker, Git and SQLite.

Education & distinctions

From 2021 to 2025, I attended Le Hong Phong Secondary School, where I followed a mathematics enrichment program and trained with the mathematics competition team throughout all four years.

Since 2025, I have specialized in Informatics at Luong Van Tuy Gifted High School (2025–2028 expected). My competition background spans mathematics, provincial and regional informatics contests, national team selection and ICPC programming.

My awards and distinctions are maintained in one shared record, available in the CV and Updates timeline.

Affiliations

SENTIA Lab ↗ — cognitive AI research and systems projects.

RiFT Research ↗ — security and agent tooling under SENTIA Lab.

Elsewhere

My public handle is @zvwgvx. Find my work on GitHub ↗ and my profile on LinkedIn ↗. My competitive programming profile is Codeforces @zvwg.vx ↗.