Patton Lai

CS at NYU. Building local AI tools, quantitative research systems, and open-source software.

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A few things I've been building.

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Hivecrew

Hivecrew

Parallel AI computer-use workers in sandboxed macOS VMs

SwiftmacOSVirtualizationREST API
Flagship project
Sidekick

Sidekick

Privacy-first local LLM app for macOS — 3.2K+ GitHub stars

SwiftSwiftUIllama.cppCoreML
Flagship project

Adversarial AI Detection Research

End-to-end pipeline for adversarial fine-tuning against AI text detectors

PythonPyTorchHuggingFaceTransformers
Flagship project

Finovax Quant Internship

Seven research projects spanning signals, stat arb, portfolio construction, and cross-sectional analysis

PythonPandasNumPyBacktrader