📖 PhD in Data Science & Engineering, The University of Tennessee, May 2026. Advised by Hairong Qi at the AICIP Lab.

🎓 Research focus: masked representation learning and computer vision. Side trips through LLMs and remote sensing.

🏆 Latest paper: ExPLoRe — ECCV 2026. Per-patch loss-coupling via Soft-MoE dispatch weights for multi-objective masked image modeling. ViT-Base → 80.6% linear probe / 85.3% finetune on ImageNet-1K.

💻 Currently building FleetSmart.ai (maritime fleet intelligence), Soma (personal health dashboard), and ShiftMD (automated medical scheduling).

💡 What I'm doing now: gkos.dev/about. Open to chat about ML or research at gkos.dev/contact.