Six active projects
LocoLLM, LocoBench, LocoConvoy, LocoEnsayo, LocoAgente, LocoPuente — each a distinct research question, all running on consumer hardware at Curtin University.
LocoLab
The work is deliberate. The hardware is secondhand. The questions are serious.
Mapping the floor
Most AI research documents the ceiling. We document the floor — what local small models can actually do on modest hardware — because most people live there and nobody is doing it honestly.
Local and private by design
Data sovereignty, student privacy, institutional governance. Local inference is not a workaround for policy constraints — it is the only fully compliant path for many organisations.
Built to teach
Students learn by building. Adapter training, evaluation pipelines, routing systems, deployment stacks — real engineering on real problems, not toy projects.