Knowledge is only real once it becomes work, and then giving.
What follows is the work, and where it's going.
Mohammed Alwedaei
Work is how I experiment with what I know. Giving is why I do either. I am moving toward a life spent that way — where what I build and what I understand stop being mine to keep, and become something someone else can use.
I want to be challenged before I trust something I've built.
And I want what survives that challenge to last — not as a quick result, but as something built to be given, long after the work that made it is forgotten.
Building
Everything I build exists to be interrogated, not admired. Systems designed to make claims verifiable, reproducible, and worth trusting.
Arcane Labs
Where the critique lives — an ecosystem for making ML experiments traceable, so results can be checked and reproduced, not just claimed. quark-trace, its integrity layer, is already public.
Writing
The reasoning behind the tools, written down. Research that interrogates what we're building and why it matters.
Agentic AI
Systems that do not merely respond but act, decide, and influence — and what this implies for human autonomy and individual agency.
Privacy & Distributed Systems
Examined not only as technical problems but as expressions of deeper questions about trust and control in digital infrastructure.
Philosophy of Digitalization
An inquiry into how digital systems shape the conditions of civilizational quality — from governance and currency to urban life and public services.
Teaching
Where the research meets its next generation. Training students in both technical foundations and the critical thinking that responsible systems demand.
Current Courses
Introduction to Programming Techniques using Java
Advanced Programming using Python
Distributed Systems
Information Security
I think about what it would feel like if none of this stayed mine — if the tools, the writing, the years of study, all quietly became something other people could stand on, the way I once stood on work that wasn't mine. Not credited back to me, not remembered as mine at all, necessarily. Just useful, somewhere past the point where I'm still the one holding it.
Let's connect
If any of this is useful to you, or if you're working on something adjacent to it, I'd like to hear from you.
