Jake Kantor

AI Safety

  • M.S. in Cybersecurity
  • Adversarial Machine Learning
  • NIST AI RMF and EU AI Act frameworks
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 via AAGATE
Python
LLM API Documentation →
Evaluation output from the facial recognition auditing framework.
Complete

AI Safety —
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 & EU AI Act compliant
GitHub → Run Lab →
Cover page of the provisional patent application.
Provisional filed

Masters 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 cyber security, IP law, and digital forensics
Research
through Dec 2026

Experience

Jan 2024 – Jan 2026
Remote

Product Architect

Modern Launch
  • Architected a web3 decentralized game integrating non-custodial wallets on Base into Telegram
  • Led client communications and translated requirements into deliverables across the full project lifecycle
  • Focused governance and compliance work on tokenomics, smart contracts, and cross-chain interoperability
Aug 2022 – Jan 2023
Atlanta, GA

Software Engineer

World Space
  • Built and maintained blockchain-based games in Unity, C#, and Solidity
  • Integrated wallet functionality and NFT systems inside Unity environments
Jan 2022 – Jul 2022
Atlanta, GA

Software Development Intern

World Space
  • Built front-end and UX features in JavaScript, Python, and Framer
  • Authored technical documentation defining project scope, delivery, and requirements

Education

Jan 2026 – Aug 2027

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

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