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Ebenezer Tarubinga

AI/ML Engineer · Computer-Vision Research

I build production LLM systems and publish first-author research on semi-supervised segmentation. I care about closing the gap between what works in a paper and what holds up at scale.

Ebenezer Tarubinga
Seoul, Korea
3first-author papers
#1 · #2 · #3global SSSS SOTA rankings
~130Klines shipped to production
MScAI · Korea University
01 — Research

Publications

First-author work on learning dense predictions from very few labels. CW-BASS & FARCLUSS were the former #3 and #2 global SSSS SOTA with ResNet-101; PixCon is the current #1 on foundation-model features.

PixCon results demo
#1 · Global SSSS SOTAPreprint · under review2026

PixCon: Clean-Positive Contrastive Learning for Foundation-Model Semi-Supervised Segmentation

Ebenezer Tarubinga · independent

A clean-positive pixel memory bank that admits only labeled pixels, keeping contrastive positives free of pseudo-label noise on DINOv2-scale features. Takes the #1 spot in semi-supervised segmentation alongside UniMatch V2.

FARCLUSS
Former #2 · Global SSSS SOTANeural Networks · under review2026

FARCLUSS: Fuzzy Adaptive Rebalancing & Contrastive Uncertainty Learning for Semi-Supervised Segmentation

Ebenezer Tarubinga, Jenifer Kalafatovich, Seong-Whan Lee

Fuzzy top-K pseudo-labeling, entropy-normalized uncertainty weighting, per-batch class rebalancing, and prototype contrastive regularization. Formerly #2 globally on Cityscapes & Pascal VOC (78.8% / 78.2% mIoU, ResNet-101).

CW-BASS
Former #3 · Global SSSS SOTAIJCNN 2025 · IEEE2025

CW-BASS: Confidence-Weighted Boundary-Aware Learning for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation

Ebenezer Tarubinga, Jenifer Kalafatovich, Seong-Whan Lee

Confidence-weighted cross-entropy with Sobel boundary regularization and bounded-sigmoid dynamic thresholding. Formerly #3 globally on Pascal VOC 2012 (77.15% mIoU) and top-10 on Papers With Code.

02 — Building

Projects

Open-source tools, research explorations, and full-stack products.

📄Open Source

hwpkit

Read, fill & edit Korean HWP (Hancom Office) documents in Python — text extraction for LLM/RAG, programmatic form-filling, and corruption-free binary rewrite.

PythonOLE/CFBRAG
🎯Research

Backdoor Attacks on CLIP (BadCLIP)

Stealthy backdoor triggers in CLIP-style models via dual-embedding alignment in the joint visual-textual representation space.

Adversarial MLMultimodal
🧬Research

Semantic-Aware Multi-Label Adversarial Attacks

Targeted perturbations for multi-label classifiers that exploit semantic label co-occurrence dependencies.

Adversarial MLMulti-Label
🧩Research

Semi-Supervised Segmentation Baselines

Systematic evaluation of weak-to-strong consistency (UniMatch) and self-training (ST++) — the foundation for CW-BASS and FARCLUSS.

SSLSegmentation
🌀Research

Monocular Depth Estimation (Depth Anything V2)

Depth estimation and point-cloud generation for autonomous driving, with an improved depth-to-pointcloud pipeline on KITTI.

3D VisionAutonomous Driving
📏Research

Effective Context Length of LLMs (STRING)

Why declared context length overstates the effective one — analyzing positional-encoding bias and the STRING shifting method across Llama, Mistral & Qwen.

NLPTransformers
🏙️Full-Stack

3D Digital Twin — Traffic Management

Real-time traffic monitoring with Three.js 3D visualization, edge-AI inference, and predictive analytics for smart-city integration.

ReactThree.jsFastAPI
🌱Full-Stack

AgriLet — Crop Disease Detection & Education

AI-powered disease identification with severity scoring, structured learning modules, community data contributions, and downloadable datasets.

ReactTypeScriptPrisma
🎓Full-Stack

eLearn — E-Learning Platform

20+ subjects, 70+ lessons, progress tracking with study streaks, a learning-analytics dashboard, full auth, and a responsive UI.

ReactExpressPrisma
03 — Path

Experience

AI/ML Engineer

Sept 2025 — present

Gractor · Seoul, Korea

Primary engineer building production LLM systems (RAG, tool-calling agents, evaluation harnesses) and computer-vision pipelines with edge inference, across live smart-city government platforms.

Research Engineer (MSc)

Aug 2023 — Feb 2026

Korea University · Pattern Recognition & ML Lab

Advised by Prof. Seong-Whan Lee (IEEE Fellow). Three first-author segmentation papers ranked #1 / #2 / #3 globally; ~10K LOC of PyTorch multi-GPU training infrastructure; Korean patent filed (autonomous-driving perception).

AI Software Engineer

Jan 2019 — Jan 2021

GliT (GLITEC) · EdTech

Built offline-first mobile learning products reaching 500+ students and 80,000+ learning sessions, and led STEM-education initiatives.

🎓 Education

MSc, Artificial Intelligence

Korea University · 2023 – 2026 · GPA 3.78 / 4.0

Global Korea Scholarship (sole Zimbabwe awardee) · BK21 Research Fellowship · Advisor: Prof. Seong-Whan Lee.

🏆 Recognition

GINCON Global Award 2025

Korean National Assembly recognition

Global Korea Scholarship (full MSc funding) · BK21 Research Fellowship (2023–2026) · IJCNN 2025 first-author acceptance (Rome).

04 — Toolkit

Skills

AI / LLM
RAG (hybrid retrieval)Agents & Tool-CallingModel Context ProtocolEvaluation HarnessesGuardrailsLangGraphOpenAIAnthropic ClaudeHyperCLOVA XHugging Face
ML / CV
PyTorchTensorFlowOpenCVscikit-learnNumPyPandasSciPyYOLOv5OpenVINOONNXCUDAWeights & Biases
Backend & Data
FastAPIFlaskNode.jsExpressSQLAlchemyPrismaTypeDBPostgreSQL + PostGISMongoDBRedisOpenSearchSQLite
Frontend
React 19TypeScriptNext.jsThree.jsdeck.glMapLibreEChartsTailwindRadix UIFramer MotionZustandVite
Infra / IoT
DockerKubernetesAWSNginxsystemdPrometheusGrafanaMosquitto MQTTModBus RTUVercelCloudflareGitHub Actions
Languages
PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptC++C#JavaSQLBash
05 — Credentials

Certifications

IBMIBM Applied AI Professional Certificate
NorthwesternModern Robotics Specialization — Northwestern
AmazonSemantic Segmentation with SageMaker — Amazon
MicrosoftML Pipelines with Azure ML Studio — Microsoft
GoogleFoundations of Project Management — Google
AWSAWS S3 Basics — Amazon Web Services
EmoryNeuroscience — Emory University
MITGame Development with Scratch — MIT