Evint Leovonzko

Cofounder of
Kolosal AI

Building the future of artificial intelligence at Kolosal AI. Researcher at UBC, where I teach machines to decode biology — from circular RNA to tumor suppressor genes — and occasionally, the stock market.

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01 / Projects

Things I've built

Open-source tools, platforms, and applications

Open Source · Infrastructure

PyTorch Inference Framework

Production-ready inference with TensorRT acceleration. Handles batching, model versioning, and GPU memory management out of the box.

PyTorch TensorRT FastAPI Docker
Open Source · AutoML

Kolosal AutoML Platform

End-to-end AutoML with Gradio UI — from hyperparameter tuning with Optuna to experiment tracking with MLflow, all in one platform.

Gradio MLflow Optuna FastAPI
Open Source · Machine Learning

SOM Plus Clustering

Industrial-grade Self-Organizing Map and clustering library for Rust — published to crates.io with CPU, CUDA, and Metal backends. Supports SOM classification, KMeans variants, and automatic model selection via silhouette scoring.

Rust SOM CUDA Metal
Open Source · Computer Vision

APT Fitness Assistant

Real-time pose estimation with MediaPipe for form correction, rep counting, and personalized workout recommendations.

Python MediaPipe Streamlit OpenCV
Open Source · Physics

Chain Reaction Simulation

High-performance nuclear chain reaction simulator in Rust — GPU-accelerated particle physics with real-time 3D visualization, 150+ isotope library from ENDF/B-VIII.0 nuclear data.

Rust wgpu GPU Nuclear Physics
Open Source · Finance

Faction — Stock Analysis App

Desktop app for evaluating stocks through technical and fundamental analysis, powered by on-device ML inference and a local Qwen2.5 LLM — fully offline, no cloud required.

Tauri Rust React LLM
Community · Education

Rebirth Educational Platform

Community-driven platform connecting learners and researchers through structured courses and peer mentorship programs.

Education Community
Community · Mental Health

PsychIDN Community

Building mental health awareness across Indonesia through accessible psychology content and peer-to-peer support networks.

Psychology Mental Health Community
02 / Research & Analysis

Papers & analyses

First-author research in ML, computational biology, and quantitative finance

Dual-Encoder vs Cross-Encoder for GRN Links
Computational Biology · IEEE TNNLS
deep learning, GRN inference, encoder architecture
Parameter-matched comparison (5.58M params) of dual-encoder and cross-encoder architectures across four imbalance regimes, ablation, pruning, and cold-start evaluation — submitted to IEEE TNNLS.
First Author IEEE TNNLS
Modular vs Monolithic GRN Architectures
Computational Biology · Research
cross-encoder, gradient failure, AUROC
Diagnosed three critical gradient failures in two-tower GRN models, then compared corrected modular and monolithic cross-encoders — cross-encoder achieves AUROC 0.904 vs 0.810, with far greater imbalance robustness.
First Author
Two-Tower Networks for GRN Inference
Computational Biology · scRNA-seq
two-tower MLP, scRNA-seq, Rust
Pure-Rust two-tower MLP learning entity embeddings and cell-type expression profiles to predict TF–gene interactions — 83.06% ensemble accuracy, CPU-trainable, no deep learning framework.
First Author
Deep Learning for Circular RNA
Computational Biology · Published
circRNA, ANN, disease classification
Published ANN pipeline classifying circRNA-disease associations with Gaussian blur preprocessing — 75% accuracy at 0.14ms per prediction.
First Author
Functional Group Analysis
Cheminformatics · Research
GAT-VGAE, SOM, drug-likeness
GAT-VGAE + SOM pipeline analysing 249,455 ZINC15 molecules with counterfactual QED decomposition — mapping functional group enrichment across drug-like chemical space in Rust.
Cheminformatics
GDP Trajectory Clustering
Economics · Analysis
unsupervised clustering, macroeconomics, k-means
Unsupervised clustering of 190 countries over 45 years reveals four distinct economic paths — from stagnation to exponential growth.
Analysis
Crypto vs Stock Timing
Finance · Analysis
Bitcoin, cross-correlation, Granger causality
Do crypto markets lead or lag equities around recessions? Cross-correlation and Granger causality analysis across five business cycles.
Finance
Bitcoin Portfolio Allocation
Finance · Analysis
risk budgeting, BTC sizing, portfolio optimization
Optimal BTC sizing via Risk-Budget Framework. Component Risk Contribution analysis across five portfolio profiles finds 10–12% is the evidence-based ceiling.
Finance

Experience

Current

University of British Columbia

Undergraduate Researcher

Building deep learning pipelines for circular RNA classification and genomic sequence analysis.

2023 — Present

Kolosal AI

Co-Founder

Architecting open-source tools for local LLM deployment, inference optimization, and MLOps automation.

2024

Publication

First Author

"Deep Learning Algorithm with Gaussian Blur Data Pre-processing in Circular RNA Classification"

About

I chase problems where data hides something meaningful — a motif buried in RNA sequences, a leading signal in financial time series, or a chance to make ML infrastructure less painful.

Currently an undergraduate researcher at UBC building deep learning systems for genomic data, and co-founding Kolosal AI to make running LLMs locally actually simple. My first-author publication on circular RNA classification is live in URNCST Journal.

When I'm not debugging loss curves, I'm reading about macroeconomics or exploring Vancouver's trails.

What I work with

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • FastAPI
  • Docker
  • CUDA
  • Pandas
  • OpenCV
  • Streamlit
  • MLflow
Open to opportunities

Let's build
something together

Always open to interesting conversations — whether it's a research collaboration, an open-source idea, or a dataset that made you stop scrolling.