Testing and engineering agenda for substrate independent consciousness: Minds Are Software - But Survival Is the Runtime

• Security Engineer @ Canadian Gov // Prev. CTO & Cofounder @ Spiral Works, SWE @ IBM
• Machine Consciousness research from Computational Functionalism and Complex Systems lens
• Computational Creativity based scientific idea generation using LLMs
• Agentic AI systems for ML experiments automation
• Misc hobbies: TMS, EEG, VR, Psychedelics, ARC-AGI, PCB/CAD, Space Engineering

ReCoN-Ipsundrum: An Inspectable Recurrent Persistence Loop Agent with Affect-Coupled Control and Mechanism-Linked Consciousness Indicator Assays (2026)
AAAI 2026 Spring Symposium - Machine Consciousness: Integrating Theory, Technology, and Philosophy
arXiv:2602.23232

Spark: A System for Scientifically Creative Idea Generation (2025)
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'25)
arXiv:2504.20090

Implementation of a Decentralized Traffic Congestion Avoidance Mechanism for VANETs (2022)
ACM International Symposium on Design and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks (DIVANet '22)
ACM Digital Library