Reference-free, privacy-preserving wastewater pathogen surveillance for federated hospital networks. DNABERT-2 embeddings + Transformer-encoder VAE detect emerging anomaly clusters in unclassified reads. AIxBio Hackathon Track 2, Apart Research.

Investigation into ML explainability/interpretability techniques, analysing the behaviour of ML models trained to predict whether a medical abstract is or is not related to pathogens.