Found Sound Orchestra
A hackathon project: a generative-music web app that maps camera-captured objects to instruments with Gemini Flash, composes full pieces with Lyria Pro, and generates music videos with Veo 3.0 — with a live FFT stem-mixer.
AI Engineer · Founder, Elmdin
Imaan Soltanalipour
AI engineer in Los Angeles building software for government agencies and nonprofits, and founder of Elmdin, an independent research and engineering organization. UCLA Computer Science; formerly at UCLA's Aharoni Lab, Amgen and NASA Langley.
Featured projects
A few things I've built.
Flow-Matching Driving Planner — Trajectory-Representation Ablation
Ablated four trajectory representations (Cartesian waypoints, Frenet, velocity, acceleration) inside a vendored NeurIPS-2025 flow-matching planner (Tan et al.), training each variant on 1.5k-scenario subsets drawn from an 80k-sample nuPlan-mini cache. On open-loop ADE (average displacement error), Cartesian waypoints performed best — roughly 5x lower error than the velocity- and acceleration-based representations (4.19 m vs ~22 / 20 m).
Supervisor Multi-Agent System (LangGraph)
A supervisor multi-agent system for autonomous research, reasoning and code execution, built on LangGraph. A supervisor routes each turn to a specialist (web research or sandboxed code) and a finalizer produces an exact-match answer. Near-term target: GAIA Level 1.
BetBat — Real-Time Social Prediction Market
A real-time prediction-market app (Next.js 16 / React 19 / TypeScript / Firestore) built over a 6-week Agile project, with transaction-safe coin economics, an LLM (OpenAI gpt-4o-mini) that structures free-form bets into verifiable yes/no markets, and a market-resolution state machine.
LLM Knowledge Base / RAG
An offline-first, event-sourced knowledge system: it captures text (a global hotkey on Windows), organizes it with a local LLM (Ollama) into a semantically linked Obsidian Markdown vault, and auto-generates dependency-ordered plans via a Kahn topological sort. The platform-agnostic core runs fully offline.
Agentic Meta-Harness
A meta-harness that wraps an AI coding agent and enforces eight deterministic, fail-closed engineering gates (build, hygiene, layout, format, lint, typecheck, tests, security) via Claude Code hooks. v0 governs Python projects, with a per-language/per-harness seam designed to extend to other stacks and agents.
Research
All publications Selected publications
Peer-reviewed work and preprints.
Elmdin
My research & engineering lab
An independent research and engineering organization, across every field.
borromeanRingsAgentic meta-harness — deterministic, fail-closed quality gates over any AI coding agent. GrandplanOffline-first LLM knowledge base + planner. OpenMathCatch-Up Agent: turns an AI-generated math paper into an audited briefing with an interactive picture. agentSupervisor multi-agent system for autonomous research, reasoning and code execution. Built on LangGraph. Targeting GAIA.
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I'm open to engineering roles at startups and more established companies in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, research collaborations, and interesting problems. The best way to reach me is email.
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