★ FLAGSHIP MISSION
Neurelle — Agent Harness over NDA Brain Data
Solo-built agentic research assistant over the dHCP dataset (314,007 files, 966 neonates, 12.7 TB). ~34K lines, 88 tools, 525 tests, data-governance + oversight by construction.
Nascent — AI Oversight in Production
Found an oversight failure in a live agent: 0 of 28 human corrections were retrievable. Shipped the fixes in four waves + honesty/control mitigations. 115 PRs, 953 commits.
Quantelle — Quantum ML Weather Forecasting
Lead on the first real-data test of a published quantum reservoir forecaster — 26.6 yrs of station data, run on IBM's 156-qubit Heron r2 (hardware matched simulation at r = 0.925).
LOCAH.ai — Cited Campus Assistant
Engineering lead: a cited assistant over Laurier's public info, with safety invariants enforced in code — every factual sentence must cite a page it actually retrieved, or it refuses.
Laurier Computing Society — President
Lead a 1,000+ member society: agentic-AI workshops, Meet-the-Professionals panels with industry, and bottie — a Claude-powered Discord bot that turns meeting notes into tracked action items.
Multimodal ML — Risky Financial Decisions
A multimodal model combining skin-conductance signals and market data (PyTorch MLP): 0.96 test accuracy vs ~0.88 for either modality alone, with ablations.
QAOA for Weather Data Assimilation
Co-author — 'QAOA: Mathematical Foundations and Hardware Bottlenecks': warm-start QAOA applied to 4D-EnVar weather data assimilation.
MAPLE — GenAI Platform Security Review
Security review of a government GenAI/RAG platform: 15-item risk register (3 high), reproduced a cross-user file leak (IDOR), and wrote the platform's Software Design Document.
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AI SAFETY · SCALABLE OVERSIGHT · AGENT ENGINEER · COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENTIST
MICHELLE CHALA
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