# Narek Maloyan

> PhD Candidate in Computer Science & AI Research Engineer

## About

Narek Maloyan is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of Lomonosov Moscow State University. His research interests include AI safety in multi-modal machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing. He currently works as an AI Research Engineer at Zencoder, building cutting-edge ML solutions including a coding agent ranked #1 on SWE-bench Verified (May 2025).

## Research Areas

- AI Safety & LLM Security
- Prompt Injection Attacks
- Trojan Detection in Large Language Models
- Computer Vision & Medical Imaging
- Natural Language Processing
- Low-Resource Language Classification

## Key Publications

- [Sleeper Channels and Provenance Gates: Persistent Prompt Injection in Always-on Autonomous AI Agents](https://maloyan.xyz/blog/sleeper-channels-provenance-gates) - arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.13471, 2026
- [Prompt Injection Attacks on Agentic Coding Assistants](https://maloyan.xyz/blog/agentic-coding-assistants-injection) - IJOIT 14(2), 2026
- [Breaking the Protocol: MCP Security Analysis](https://maloyan.xyz/blog/mcp-security-analysis) - Modern Information Technologies and IT-education 21(3), 2026
- [Investigating LLM-as-a-Judge Vulnerability to Prompt Injection](https://maloyan.xyz/blog/llm-judge-prompt-injection) - IJOIT 13(9), 2025
- [Adversarial Attacks on LLM-as-a-Judge Systems](https://maloyan.xyz/blog/adversarial-llm-judge) - arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.18333, 2025
- [Prompt Injection Attacks in Defended Systems](https://maloyan.xyz/blog/prompt-injection-defended-systems) - DCCN 2024
- [Trojan Detection in Large Language Models](https://maloyan.xyz/blog/trojan-detection-llm) - Journal of Propulsion Technology 45(3), 2024
- [DIALOG-22 RuATD: Generated Text Detection](https://maloyan.xyz/blog/ruatd-generated-text-detection) - CLITT 2022
- [Noninvasive Glioma Grading with Deep Learning](https://maloyan.xyz/blog/glioma-grading-deep-learning) - MEDINFO 2022
- [MR-guided Non-invasive Brain Glioma Typing](https://maloyan.xyz/blog/mr-glioma-typing) - Voprosy Neirokhirurgii 2022
- [Neurosurgical Instrument Segmentation](https://maloyan.xyz/blog/neurosurgical-instrument-segmentation) - MIE 2024
- [Low-Resource Language Text Classification](https://maloyan.xyz/blog/low-resource-text-classification) - SemEval 2023
- [Blind Face Restoration Survey](https://maloyan.xyz/blog/blind-face-restoration) - IJOIT 2023
- [Synthesis of L-coordinate Parallel Mechanism Without Singularities](https://maloyan.xyz/blog/parallel-mechanism-synthesis) - AIMEECS 2020

## Professional Experience

- AI Research Engineer at Zencoder (Feb 2024 - Present)
- Machine Learning Engineer at Viasat (Sep 2021 - Feb 2024)
- Python Developer at ods.ai (Jan 2020 - Jun 2022)
- Machine Learning Engineer at Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute (Jun 2020 - Feb 2022)
- Machine Learning Engineer at TrendMD (Sep 2019 - Sep 2021)

## Projects

- [imast.ai](https://imast.ai) - AI HR agent for sourcing, screening, and engaging talent across 800M+ profiles ([launch post](https://maloyan.xyz/blog/imast-ai-launch))
- [AI & ML Cheatsheet](https://cheatsheet.maloyan.xyz) - Open-source reference guide for ML and data science concepts
- [manim-js](https://github.com/maloyan/manim-js) - TypeScript port of 3Blue1Brown's Manim animation engine (339+ stars)
- [amnezia-cloak](https://github.com/maloyan/amnezia-cloak) - Minimal macOS menubar client for AmneziaWG tunnels (Swift, ~350 lines)
- [polymarket-speech](https://github.com/maloyan/polymarket-speech) - Rust experiment for a speech-driven Polymarket interface
- [arutunyan.doctor](https://arutunyan.doctor/) - Practice site I built for my lovely wife, Dr. Maria Arutunyan (OB-GYN), with 26 clinical calculators and reference tools

## Teaching

- Teaching Assistant at Lomonosov Moscow State University (Sep 2021 - May 2026)
- [Deep Learning Course Materials](https://deepml.maloyan.xyz)

## Links

- Website: https://maloyan.xyz
- Email: maloyan.narek@gmail.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/maloyan
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GlL1G24AAAAJ
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nmaloyan/
- Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/narek1110
- X/Twitter: https://x.com/NarekMaloyan