Jake Kantor

AI Security and Governance

  • AI Model Evaluation & Assurance Expert @ Mercor
  • M.S. in Cybersecurity & AI Security
  • Adversarial Machine Learning
Portrait of Jake Kantor.

Projects

Screenshot of the real estate chatbot interface.
Prototype

AI Agent —
Real Estate Chatbot

A Claude-powered real estate chatbot that enforces compliance at runtime instead of reviewing it after a complaint.

  • Fair Housing compliance classifier screening output before release
  • Operator kill switch for immediate human halt
  • Hash-chained audit log — edits are detectable
  • Controls mapped to NIST AI RMF using AAGATE
Python
LLM API Documentation →
Evaluation output from the facial recognition auditing framework.
Complete

Adversarial ML —
Facial Recognition

An AI GRC testing framework mapping technical data science metrics to NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 enterprise compliance templates.

  • FGSM attack to establish a degradation curve
  • Adversarial training, measured before and after
  • LIME to check what the hardened model attends to
  • NIST AI RMF compliant
GitHub → Run Lab →
Cover page of the provisional patent application.
Provisional filed

Master's Thesis —
Defeat AI Copycats

A provisional patent application covering adversarial machine learning techniques for protecting creative media from unauthorized AI ingestion.

  • Creator-side defenses target a training-time threat model
  • Inference-time copying bypasses them — my testing found the perturbations invisible to multimodal encoders
  • Addresses the gap between AI cybersecurity, IP law, and digital forensics
Research
through Dec 2026
Screenshot of the 7SHOT web app showing wallet connection and live round state.
Live on mainnet

7SHOT —
On-chain Game on Base

Deployed Solidity contracts handling real funds, with a separated vault, React front end, and hosted backend coordinating rounds.

  • Contracts deployed and verified on Base mainnet
  • Vault holds balances apart from game logic, limiting blast radius
  • React front end with wallet connection and live round state
  • CockroachDB backend for state that doesn't belong on chain
Basescan → Play Live →
Network diagram: four QBFT validator nodes, two permissioned institutional accounts, and one unauthorized wallet rejected at the boundary.
Demonstrated

Settlement Network —
Private QBFT Chain

A permissioned Hyperledger Besu network modeling bank-to-bank settlement — and rejecting wallets that aren't authorized to be there.

  • Multi-node QBFT consensus with deterministic, immediate finality
  • Node and account permissioning — participation is granted, not open
  • Settlement flow between institutional accounts, fully observable
  • Adversarial demo: unauthorized wallet rejected at the protocol layer
Besu · QBFT
Docker GitHub →
Diagram of swap execution through a router into a constant-product liquidity pool.
Built

DEX —
Exchange & DappToken

A decentralized exchange built from the contract level up to understand AMM mechanics without an abstraction in the way.

  • Liquidity pool accounting and swap execution
  • Token swap functionality via MetaMask on an EVM testnet
  • Attack surface of price-dependent logic
GitHub → Video Walkthrough →

Experience

Aug 2026 – Present
Remote

AI Model Evaluation & Assurance

Mercor
  • Evaluate frontier AI model outputs across documents, slides, and spreadsheets against defined accuracy, quality, and completeness criteria, providing human-in-the-loop signal for RLHF training
  • Assess reasoning and output integrity through an adversarial-ML lens, flagging behavioral and quality regressions against baseline
  • Author structured assessments and comparative rankings that translate model failures into actionable evaluation feedback
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026
Remote

Product Architect

Modern Launch
  • Architected a decentralized game with non-custodial wallets on Base (EVM) and Telegram integration; led design through implementation
  • Built Solidity contracts with access controls and reentrancy safeguards; integrated Chainlink VRF for verifiable randomness and developed React/TypeScript features
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Atlanta, GA

Software Engineer

World Space
  • Engineered blockchain-based games (Unity, C#, Solidity) with integrated wallet and NFT systems
  • Built front-end and UX features in JavaScript and Python

Education

Jan 2026 – Aug 2027 (expected)

M.S. Cybersecurity, AI Security concentration

Old Dominion University

AI governance, risk & compliance · ethical hacking · penetration testing · cryptography · NIST · EU AI Act · ISO

Jun 2024 – Dec 2025

A.S. Cybersecurity

Tidewater Community College

Cloud computing (AWS, GCP, Azure) · Python · networking · Linux/Unix · cybersecurity law

Sep 2014 – May 2018

B.A. Musical Theater

James Madison University

Public speaking · ethics · communication

Certifications

  • CompTIA Security+ ✓
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner ✓
  • IAPP AI Governance Professional In progress

Skills

AI governance & security

  • NIST AI RMF
  • EU AI Act
  • ISO/IEC 42001
  • AI GRC
  • Machine learning

Cloud & infrastructure

  • AWS
  • AWS Security
  • Cloud architecture
  • Cloud security
  • Terraform
  • Docker

Engineering & tooling

  • Python
  • React.js
  • Solidity
  • Git
  • Encryption
  • Datadog
  • Prometheus
  • SOC

Contact