
ISSACS Professional Services Group
May 2026 – PresentDeveloperCleveland, OH
Developing AI agents that review budgets proposals and spreadsheets for NIH grants & adapt to solicitation-specific requirements.


Welcome to my corner of the internet.
Mainly a work portfolio, partially a love letter.
You can say my name as Zee / Zeh-lan / Zi-lan.
Fun fact: “Zelan Eroz” is an anagram of my parents’ names.
Working with and learning about AI Alignment (research & applied systems) and Full Stack Development for Cloud Platforms.
I’m motivated by the challenge of becoming a more thoughtful and capable engineer every day. I believe that as tech grows, so should its accessibility and responsibility.
Outside the codebase, I love experiencing new cultures through travel and meaningful conversations (apparently getting a good story out of a taxi driver is my specialty). I love to paint and go to art museums. I’m also getting back to writing lately!
See what goes on in my brain here.
Building intelligent systems, researching how to make LLMs more aligned, and creating communities where more people can participate.

DeveloperCleveland, OH
Developing AI agents that review budgets proposals and spreadsheets for NIH grants & adapt to solicitation-specific requirements.
AI Safety FellowRemote
8-week program covering technical and governance aspects of AI safety including alignment, interpretability, and threat models.

AI/ML FellowRemote
ML+Data pipelines for estimating energy demand and routing tasks toward more efficient models.

AnalystCleveland, OH
Mapped basket-size opportunities across Cleveland, develop customer personas, and tailor operational changes supporting the market’s $7M renovation.

Teaching Assistant, Data StructuresCleveland, OH
150+ students. Started freshman year, youngest in the team.

ResearcherRemote
Investigated sycophancy in multimodal large language models by designing multi-turn experimental conditions, evaluation pipelines, and benchmark-based comparisons.

Research AssistantSingapore
Sycophancy in LLMs

Research AssistantCleveland, OH
Developing reproducible NLP pipelines for detecting intimate partner violence in clinical data while examining fairness, bias, and deployment considerations.

ResearcherKaruizawa, Japan
Investigate the neural mechanisms underlying motor control and learning.

Marketing ChairCleveland, OH
Leading full revamp and creative strategy of CWRU's biggest hackathon.

Alumni Relations ChairCleveland, OH
Strengthening communication and relationships between current members and the chapter's broader alumni community.

Finance CommitteeRemote
Supporting the national committee responsible for expanding access to the United World College movement for Filipino students.

Career Consulting InternCleveland, OH
Developing career resources and communications for students pursuing opportunities in engineering, technology, and data.

Analyzed trade-off between speed, GPU parallelism, and energy cost. Quantified that scaling GPUs for faster inference increases energy use by up to 55%, giving KPMG a clearer framework for evaluating when performance gains justify added compute.

Built an AI caregiving copilot that transforms fragmented family updates, care routines, and patient needs into actionable coordination support. Focused on context-aware assistance, reduced caregiver burden, and AI that fits into real family care workflows.

My first full-stack project (2023): Baybayin is a pre-colonial Philippine writing system that is no longer widely used, and this simple but meaningful project was my first attempt at turning cultural inspiration into a working end-to-end application. Tested by 35 users.

Implemented a limit order book in C++ to model matching logic, order flow, and market data structures.

Do you know where your 24 hours go? Designed simple logging and visual breakdowns to help users spot patterns in how they spend their day.

Featured by CWRU for International Women and Girls in Science Day 2026.

Featured for work with the West Side Market on market strategy, customer insights, and renovation-related recommendations.

Compared ICA and EMD for denoising simulated EEG time series, studying how stochastic and deterministic algorithms remove artifacts from electroencephalogram signals. This was my IB Computer Science extended essay: an early independent research project in signal processing and computational experimentation.

Analyzed prism-adaptation experiments with 40+ participants to test whether motor learning transfers between different throwing movements. Led the Python pipeline for cleaning displacement data, visualizing adaptation patterns, and fitting exponential decay curves to estimate error-correction behavior.
zeespanto@gmail.com