A.V
Field notes — 2026

I build systems
by day, signals
by night.

I'm a researcher working on distributed systems and applied ML, and — in the hours the lab doesn't claim — a musician recording slow, textured electronic pieces under the name Low Static. This site keeps both halves of that in one place.

Currently

What's on the bench

Research

Consensus under partial failure

A protocol for maintaining quorum when up to a third of nodes silently misreport state.

Draft2026
Music

Low Static — Half-Light EP

Four tracks recorded on tape, mixed in a converted stairwell for the natural reverb.

Mixing2026
Project

Latency Atlas

An open dataset mapping real-world network latency across underserved regions.

Active2025–