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Deployed systems with measurable outcomes. Production ML, healthcare AI, fraud detection, and infrastructure projects—what shipped, what worked, and what I learned.

LunarSite: An end-to-end ML pipeline for lunar south pole landing site selection

ALAN SCOTT ENCINAS CASE STUDY · LUNARSITE (FULL PIPELINE) LunarSite: An end-to-end ML pipeline for lunar south pole landing site selection Sim-to-real terrain segmentation, fine-tuned crater detection, PSR-aware XGBoost site scoring, and calibrated uncertainty — validated against NASA’s Artemis III…

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Credit card fraud detection scatter plot showing transaction amounts vs time with fraud and legitimate transactions

Credit Card Fraud Detection with ML | Case Study

Building real-time fraud detection for financial systems: 92.6% accuracy with just 13 features and sub-millisecond inference. Through aggressive feature selection (435 features → 13), logistic regression proved that production-ready ML doesn't require complexity—it requires smart fundamentals and clear constraints.

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Transfer learning model predictions on chest X-rays showing normal and pneumonia classifications

Transfer Learning for Medical Diagnosis | Case Study

How a flower classification model became a medical diagnostic tool for underserved communities. Using transfer learning with InceptionV3, we built a pneumonia detection system that achieved 73% validation accuracy and increased screening throughput by 340% at UCI Medical's community health center. Real deployment, real impact, real constraints.