About me

Hi there! I am Manyi Yim.

Driven by an enduring curiosity about free will, human intelligence, and the intricacies of brain function, my early academic pursuits focused on biological neural networks. I developed mathematical and computational models to address neuroscience questions through rigorous analysis of neural data. My journey has since evolved, with recent years bringing a profound fascination with artificial neural networks (ANNs), especially their remarkable capabilities in natural language processing and computer vision. I am keen to pursue cutting-edge research in these areas to understand the inner workings of ANNs, developing innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to complex problem-solving.

Here I would like to share with you some of the projects I have been working on.

Ongoing Projects

Project	Codes	Packages / References
A personal AI Assistant	Python	Text-to-audio: Docker + Streamlit + Kokoro
Build a mini-transformer	Python	Transformer Architecture, Tokenizer
A Python interface on the client end to run Ollama models on a server	Python	Requests
Correlation Structure in the Weights of Transformers across LLMs	Python	Correlation, Linear Algebra

Machine Learning / AI Projects

Project	Codes	Packages / References
A Nutrition App Powered by Google Gemma 3n	Python	mlx_vlm + Streamlit
Gemma 3 Multimodal Model	Python	Ollama + Streamlit
Inference with Google Paligemma 2 Vision-Language Model (VLM)	Python	PyTorch, transformers, streamlit
Facial Recognition using FaceNet-PyTorch: Can my face be recognized?	Python	PyTorch, scikit-learn, FaceNet
Facial Tracking using FaceNet-PyTorch: Can my face be tracked?	Python	PyTorch, FaceNet
Sentiment Analysis using NLTK	Python	NLTK, gradient descent, logistic regression
Sentiment Analysis using a Tensorflow bi-directional RNN	Python	Tensorflow, LSTM, GloVe embeddings
Sentiment Analysis using BERT	Python	Tensorflow, transformers, BERT

Software Engineering

Project	Codes	Packages / References
Public File Exchange in Ephemeral Storage on Hugging Face	Python	Gradio, Pandas
Hosting Apps on Hugging Face Space Without Sharing Code	Python	requests, types, os
REST API with Docker to serve Ollama models on Hugging Face Spaces	Docker + Bash	Docker + Bash + Ollama

Selected Modeling & Data Analysis Projects

Project	Codes	Math/Concept Explained
Place-cell capacity and volatility with grid-like inputs (eLife)	Python	SVM, Perceptron, Multichoose
Transforming the Choice Outcome to an Action Plan in Monkey Lateral Prefrontal Cortex: A Neural Circuit Model (Neuron)	Python / MATLAB	DBSCAN (clustering)
Intrinsic rescaling of granule cells restores pattern separation ability of a dentate gyrus network model during epileptic hyperexcitability (Hippocampus / Springer)	NEURON / MATLAB	-
Impact of intrinsic biophysical diversity on the activity of spiking neurons (PRE)	Python	Numerical Integration, SDEs to Fokker-Planck Equation

Scientific Research Project

Project	Codes	Packages / References
Analysis of grid cell activity in different environments	MATLAB	Image Processing Toolbox, Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox, Signal Processing Toolbox