Hi, I’m Manny 👋
Full-time NYU student. I also solo-develop AI models.
Research & AI Development
- Ophelia – A 384K+ context LLM, trained and benchmarked around OpenAI’s o3 & Deepseek r1. Built in collaboration with a former STEM Olympiad, inspired by Stanford's S1 research.
- Stochastic Diffusion in Recommendation Models – Ongoing work exploring how probabilistic behavior can improve dynamic embeddings and filtering.
- Transit-Oriented Development and Walkability in East Asian Urban Planning: A Comparative Analysis of Chengdu and Seoul.
Projects
- 0lith – Research applied to a fork of bytedance/monolith.
- B0 – A dev engine blending no-code ease with real code.
- Sential – AI-powered Shopify Theme Co-pilot.
Hobbies
- Frmr. Competitive Speed Cuber (Illinois Top 150 – WCA)
- Logic puzzles (Project Euler)
- Competitive programming & pattern recognition
- Frmr. Fortnite player (Globally Ranked – Top 1500)
Contact
- Email: mannyhernandez@nyu.edu
- GitHub: @m-ny
- X (Twitter): @m9rcn