Developing innovative approaches using LLMs as intelligent agents to create optimal RAG systems specifically designed for structured data. This research aims to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of information retrieval in complex data environments.
Developing a privacy-preserving AI coding assistant that runs directly on users' computers. The system automatically detects hardware capabilities and deploys appropriately quantized LLMs, enabling secure AI assistance for privacy-constrained environments in government and healthcare sectors.
Characterized soybean arogenate dehydratase (ADT) enzymes for their ADT and prephenate dehydratase (PDT) activity using yeast complementation assays. Identified alternate transcripts that exclude transit peptides, providing insights into mechanisms regulating specialized metabolite synthesis in plants.
Implemented ProtT5 transformer model for protein embeddings, developing custom clustering algorithms using embedding cosine similarities. Managed computational constraints working with a large dataset of proteins.
Dr. Mostafa Milani
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Western University
Our lab specializes in data management and databases, with particular emphasis on helping database users access, understand, and clean data. My research within the lab bridges these core areas with modern AI approaches, specifically exploring how Large Language Models can enhance data retrieval and understanding in structured database environments.
Frontiers in Plant Science
Volume 15 - 2024 | Section: Plant Metabolism and Chemodiversity
Published: January 22, 2024
The University of Western Ontario
Department of Biology
2021
Dr. Lucian Ilie
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Western University
Dr. Sangeeta Dhaubhadel
Research Scientist
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada / Western University
Partner Organization: Farpoint Technologies
Project: Sovereign AI Coding Assistant for Privacy-Constrained Tasks
Duration: 8 Months (2 Internship Units)
Funded to develop a privacy-preserving AI coding assistant with advanced model quantization and local LLM serving capabilities for secure, on-premise deployment in privacy-sensitive sectors.
Fall 2025
Course description and responsibilities to be added.
2019-2021 • Instructor: Michelle Belton
Facilitated lab sessions on spectrophotometry, graded course material.
Winter 2019 • Instructor: Richard Gardiner
Facilitated lab sessions on the economic use of various plants, graded course material.
Western University, London, Ontario
Focus: LLMs and Structured Data
Western University, London, Ontario
Western University, London, Ontario
Western University, London, Ontario
Feel free to reach out for discussions about LLMs and structured data!