P-01Co-lead
Atlas Tech Diodes
Hardware cybersecurity project developing low-cost unidirectional data diodes for critical-infrastructure applications. Research grant application in progress.
Hardware SecurityEmbeddedResearch
DETAILS
CS + EE · UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA
Nava Tavasoli
Hardware security, signal processing, and applied AI/ML — building at the layer where software meets silicon.
IMG · NT-01
01 · ABOUT
I'm a third-year student at the University of Ottawa doing a double degree in BSc in Computing Technology (BSc) and Electrical Engineering (BASc). I'm working in the layer where software meets silicon: signals, circuits, and the systems built on top of them.
- DEGREE
- CS + EE
- YEAR
- 3rd
- MY BASES
- Toronto · Ottawa
- SPECIALIZATIONS
- GPU Acceleration · AI/ML · Agentic AI
02 · PROJECTS
P-02Personal project
F1 Telemetry Web App
Race results, championship standings, session schedules, and lap telemetry (speed, throttle, gear) for the 2026 season — FastF1 data served from a Python backend.
PythonFastAPIData Viz
DETAILS
P-03Learning build
rag-agent-lite
Agentic RAG built up in five incremental stages: basic retrieval, hybrid dense+BM25 search, tool calling, LangGraph self-correction, and multi-agent orchestration — all running on local models.
LangChainLangGraphQdrantOllama
DETAILS SOURCE
03 · EXPERIENCE
JUNE 2026 — AUGUST 2026
AI/ML Engineer (Data Science Support)
Department of National Defence - Warfighter Support Division
Developed agentic models for military applications using LangChain, LangGraph, and RAG. Performed data analysis and optimized raw inputs for entry into an ML pipeline. Developed an autonomous LLM assessment application to query and grade AI models.
MARCH 2025 - PRESENT
Co-Principal Cybersecurity Researcher
uOttawa Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
RCMP-funded study on LLMs for cybersecurity education; Python/SQL analysis of experimental results.
2025
Board of Directors · UI/UX Web Developer
SEDS Canada
Organization-wide events; supervised NASA Space Apps competitions across Canada.
2024
Software Developer
Shabodi Inc.
AWS-compatible detection of SIM swap and duplication on 5G enterprise networks.
04 · SKILLS
LANGUAGES
PythonTypeScriptJavaGoSQLMATLAB
HARDWARE & SIGNALS
SimulinkArduinoRaspberry PiROSCircuit analysisLab instrumentation
AI/ML & DATA
LangChainLangGraphRAGpandasPower BICUDA (Numba)
CLOUD & TOOLS
DockerAWSGoogle CloudFirebaseGitAzure DevOps
05 · CONTACT