louis forster.
2025
Age 21: Founded Treyspace. Context-Aware Canvas. Implements GraphRAG on a whiteboard for LLM retrieval resulting in fewer tokens processed and reduced hallucinations for undestanding spatial information.
2025
Age 21: ML Research internship at the Bristol Vision Institute. Trained custom (forward+backward) optical flow models on a synthetic dataset i created, for noisy, lowlight videos. Implemented the bidirectional image warping with forward-backward occlusion mask.
2025
Age 20: Developed a full-stack web app for AI research agents (LLM + Custom tool calling + Semantic Scholar API). Came 5th place at AITinkerers hackathon with this idea.
2025
Age 20: Trained a transformer neural network on paragraph embeddings on emobank.csv data set and used the attention to find the impact of each sentence on the tone of the paragraph. Made a basic ReactTS frontend to visualise the data.
2025
Age 20: In a group, made a physical AI companion for guided self-reflection, suggests activities, and learns user preferences.
2024
Age 19: Web design internship, increased visitors by 119%.
2023
Age 19: Using BART/RoBERTa for summarising and classifying personality attributes based on input data/events. Taught myself SQL for the db and synced automatically to encrypted cloud storage. Would give a score of the user's attributes and a summary of why.
2023
Age 19: Trained ML classification models on Reddit custom dataset to identify potential mental health disorders, used to enter users and give probabilities of having each disorder. Used facades and OOP design patterns for easy connection to frontend
2023
Age 18: Built a fully autonomous AI Twitch streamer using GPT-3.5-turbo, (reads chat, generates response, voice output, synced animated avatar, custom personality, predefined function for generating other responses)
2022
Age 18: Summer before uni Raspberry Pi projects: temperature logger in my room which sent notifications to my phone of the temperature, set the pi up as a music server and created a mobile app for multiple users to control the same speaker remotely, lyric web scraping tool, and a facial recognition security system for identifying faces, that aren't mine.
2021
Age 17: Wrote a 5000 word essay about accelerating technology, mentioning the newly-released GPT-3 (pre-ChatGPT) and the implications of AGI.
2021
Age 17: Built a 2D game in Pygame with gaussian-based procedural generation and enemy pathfinding.
2020
Age 16: Started reading about the Singularity and AGI. Interest in figureheads like Ray Kurzweil, Elon Musk.
2019-20
Age 15: Turned an initial $30 into $1000 in four months TF2 trading.
2019
Age 14: Grew a YouTube channel to 10k subscribers and 3M+ total views.
2018
Age 14: Self-taught web design, cloning my school's VLE with raw HTML/CSS/JS.
2015-19
Age 11-15: Won UKMT Silver Awards, Grey Kangaroo Qualifier, Royal Institution Mathematics Masterclasses on Saturdays, Y11 Prizes for overall and mathematics.
2014
Age 10: Set up a Minecraft server for friends. Scripted maze generation on the Raspberry Pi.
2012
Age 8: Developed a 2D platformer game using GameMaker.
2011
Age 7: Began programming by creating games in Scratch.