Flapping Airplanes 2026–present
Working on data efficiency.
Wes Griffin
Researcher at Flapping Airplanes.
Work
Hazy Research 2025–2026
Co-authored Intelligence per Watt, a new metric for measuring AI energy efficiency, and built the energy-profiling infrastructure for LLMs behind the paper's experiments. Contributed to Minions, a protocol for cost-efficient local–cloud model collaboration.
Datavations 2024–2025
Intern, then junior engineer. Built the analytics tool Datavations' customers use to explore their sales data, used by hundreds of analysts weekly. Later led a front-end migration.
Projects
TutorLink.ai 2023–2024
A tutoring marketplace built around an AI matching algorithm: it models each student's learning style and each tutor's teaching style, then pairs them on compatibility rather than just subject and availability. Grew to 40+ tutors and 160+ students in Miami.
ExtempAI 2023
Prep tool for extemporaneous speaking: finds and summarizes news articles on a topic, using a fine-tuned GPT-3 that cut costs ~5x vs GPT-4. Used by my high school's speech and debate team at tournaments.
SafeWalk 2023
iOS app that finds the safest walking route, not the fastest, by scoring paths against historical crime data. Led a team of 3 and built the back end and front end. Presented to Google X.