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Akhil Ageer

Department of Computer Science · Kean University

Akhil Ageer

I work on systems that are only allowed to act on what they can identify.

Doctoral Research Assistant. Identification-constrained navigation, multi-provider mapping, critical AI literacy.

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In navigation, a live detour should fire only when an assigned approaching cohort exists — otherwise maps confuse empty roads with blocked ones. In classrooms, a critique of AI should be scored against a taxonomy, not a vibe. The through-line is identification: what a model is permitted to conclude, and what it must leave silent.

2026

Graduate Assistant of the Year, Kean University

Now

Identification-constrained navigation — Aether Braid / ICCN

Lab

Six-provider ETA benchmark, 120+ days, 600,000+ route observations

Atlas

Selected research

All six lines

Three active lines: a live-detour loop that will not infer blockage without a cohort, a six-provider map treated as a virtual sensor, and a classroom that scores critique of AI rather than fluency with it.

  1. 01Aether Braid2026Identification-Constrained Closed-Loop NavigationA live-detour loop that treats the recommended route as a treatment assignment, and infers blockage only when an assigned approaching cohort exists.
  2. 02Multi-Map ETA2025–26A virtual sensor from six commercial mapsA 24/7 fault-tolerant pipeline collecting synchronized ETAs from Google, HERE, TomTom, MapQuest, Waze, and Apple Maps — and a disagreement index for the routes they will not agree on.
  3. 03CLEAR-AI2026Critical AI literacy for K–12 financial educationA Scaffold–Engage–Apply critique workflow, a 14-type error taxonomy, and a hybrid multi-agent pipeline that scores student critiques without breaking experimental control.

Argument

Silence is not a sensor

Aether Braid starts from a mistake speed-based maps keep making. An empty recommended route looks like a healthy one. ICCN treats the route as a treatment assignment: no approaching cohort, no identification, no detour. Turn the cohort to see the constraint change what the system is allowed to say.

Read the identification argument

Identification constraint

The empty-road paradox

Not identified

Assigned route · waiting

No assigned approaching cohort. The recommended route is a treatment with no units. Speed-based maps would call this a clear road. ICCN refuses the conclusion. Silence is not flow.

Writing

Public work

Interactive essay

The 2030 Economy

A lay reading of Anthropic Institute’s Economic Scenarios for Transformative AI

A full explainer of Korinek, Jones, Sacher, Cotter, and McCrory — GDP, wages, labor share, and unemployment through 2030 — with every headline figure redrawn and a knob-level model you can turn yourself.

Open the explainer

By 2030

  • ModestGDP +1.6%
  • SubstantialGDP +8.3%
  • ExtremeGDP +32%

Currently

Appointment

Doctoral Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Kean University. Graduate Assistant of the Year, 2026.

Active lines

Aether Braid, Multi-Map ETA, CLEAR-AI.