AI research + engineering · end-to-end
Bring us your hard problem.
We will deliver the working AI system.
You get serious AI research, practical engineering, and one team from start to handoff.
We work fast, test the whole system, and make sure it works.
Solutions
The problem comes first.
The quote lists the test, price, and due dates. You see a working build at each milestone. The handoff includes the code, tests, deployment setup, and notes.
01 · TEST
Evaluate
Set the tests, acceptance criteria, and failure checks before we build.
02 · MODEL
Build or adapt
Fine-tune, adapt open source, use APIs, or combine them to fit the job.
03 · SYSTEM
Integrate
Connect models, data, tools, APIs, and business rules into one usable system.
04 · HANDOFF
Ship and hand off
Receive working software, tests, deployment, documentation, and the repository.
Work
Benchmark · NeurIPS 2024
UAV3D, a public large-scale benchmark for 3D perception from drone swarms
Detection, tracking, and collaborative perception from UAV platforms, in the nuScenes format.
- 1,000 scenes · 500K RGB images · 3.3M annotated 3D boxes
- Public code, dataset, and leaderboard
NovelHive, a consumer AI fiction platform on web and iOS
A production reading platform with web and iOS clients, payments, and multilingual audio.
novelhive.ai →
Sim-to-real navigation on a Boston Dynamics Spot
Frank’s graduate research trained a navigation policy in simulation and demonstrated it on physical hardware.
▶ Watch the robot →Research & code
More work you can inspect.
Open the paper, code, or public project behind each card.
ACD-DETR: small-object detection in drone imagery
Read the paper →
MatchXML: classification over millions of labels
Open the code →
DeepPhospho: deep learning for phosphoproteomics
Open the code →
Nuclei segmentation from point annotations only
Open the code →
Contrastive learning for text-to-image synthesis
Open the code →
Vulnerabilities and protections in large language models
Read the survey →
Adaptive label clusters for extreme classification
Read the paper →
Generative Max-Mahalanobis classifiers
Read the paper →
Adversarial reinforcement learning for domain adaptation
Read the paper →Engagement
01
20-minute call
Start with the problem and the result you need. We will tell you if the job is outside our wheelhouse.
02
Fixed-price SOW
Otherwise, we write a short SOW with the deliverable, fixed price, dates, and acceptance test. SBIR and STTR scopes stay inside the approved plan and award terms.
03
Milestone delivery
At a milestone, you inspect the working code before the invoice goes out. Terms are Net 30. We check data access, citizenship, export controls, and required flow-downs before the project starts.
Team
AI/ML research and production engineering.
Chief Executive Officer
Maya Christine Liu
Maya owns Novela AI outright and runs it. She decides what work we take on and what we turn down, sets the price, and signs the contract. She's the client's point of contact through delivery. Engineering reports to her.
Weizhen (Frank) Liu
Frank has spent eight years moving between AI research and production software. DeepPhospho took him into phosphoproteomics; WeakNucleiSeg into medical images; his graduate work put a navigation policy on a Spot robot; NovelHive became a web and iOS product. He holds two master’s degrees in computer science.
- LLMs, NLP, agents, evaluation, and model adaptation
- Computer vision, medical imaging, and bioinformatics
- Robotics, reinforcement learning, and production systems
8 years in AI/ML · Co-first author, Nature Communications & ISBI
Hui Ye, Ph.D.
Hui worked in software and systems engineering for almost six years before earning his computer science Ph.D. His papers range from extreme text classification to image generation, object detection, and multi-drone 3D perception.
- Computer vision, detection, tracking, and 3D perception
- NLP, extreme classification, and generative learning
- Benchmark, dataset, and production systems engineering
Nearly 6 years in software and systems engineering · NeurIPS, ICML & IEEE TKDE
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- Email[email protected]
- Phone(678) 997-7619
- LocationLivermore, CA · SF Bay Area
- ResponseWithin one business day