Omar RamadanResearch & engineering
Machine learning researcherSan Francisco, California

Learning from less
Reasoning about
the physical world

I’m Omar, a machine learning researcher and engineer. I study how learning systems can generalize from sparse experience and use structured internal models to reason about physical processes.

Research direction

Robot learning, physically grounded world models, and uncertainty-aware autonomy.

Explore my work
Temporal representation · 2026–present

How should a model represent elapsed time?

In ChronoState and Chronometric Injection, we study timing signals in frozen language models. I contributed to research framing, code and data processing, and manuscript development.

The evidence matters as much as the mechanism: a stronger prompted-timestamp baseline, weak held-out quota transfer, and a negative zero-shot result help define what these representations can and cannot do.

Read ChronoState
Uncertainty & coordination · 2025–present

When can an autonomous system trust its observations?

My work on multisensor aircraft tracking connects reproducible analytics with decisions. Related collaborations examine detection, fusion continuity, and sensor handoffs through Bayesian models, alongside constrained multi-satellite coordination.

Read DataOps-to-decision
Structured reasoning · 2024–2025

Can extracted evidence remain traceable?

I first-authored work on reconstructing digital-forensics evidence graphs from legal documents using language models, treating provenance and explainable relationships as central to the task.

Read the COMPSAC paper

Peer-reviewed proceedings

  1. 2026 SPIE · First author
    DataOps-to-decision: Reproducible analytics for multisensor aircraft tracking with GoDSAT-AT

    O. Ramadan, A. K. Saeed, B. A. Johnson & B. M. Rodriguez

  2. 2026 SPIE
    Bayesian network guided vulnerability analysis of detection, fusion continuity, and sensor handoffs for aircraft custody in terminal airspace

    A. K. Saeed, A. S. Yasin, B. A. Johnson, O. Ramadan & B. M. Rodriguez

  3. 2025 IEEE COMPSAC · First author
    Reconstructing judicial digital forensic evidence graphs from legal documents using large language models

    O. Ramadan, R. Xiao, D. Xu & W. Xu

Preprints

  1. 2026 arXiv
    ChronoState: Hidden elapsed-time conditioning for temporal-state action selection in frozen-backbone language models

    S. Siavoshian, O. Ramadan, A. K. Saeed, B. A. Johnson, A. M. E.-A. Diab & B. M. Rodriguez

  2. 2026 Zenodo · Manuscript under review
    Chronometric injection: A residual-stream channel for elapsed-time conditioning in frozen language models

    S. Siavoshian, O. Ramadan, A. K. Saeed, B. A. Johnson, A. M. E.-A. Diab & B. M. Rodriguez

I move between research and implementation: from Bayesian models and reproducible experiments to the systems that make them usable.

At Johns Hopkins University, I develop physics-informed Bayesian neural-network workflows, uncertainty-quantification modules, and scientific machine-learning infrastructure. Earlier work spans secure AI, graph learning, retrieval, and high-performance inference.

Oct 2025–present

Johns Hopkins UniversityMachine Learning Engineer

Oct 2023–Feb 2026

Johns Hopkins APL / NSAAI Researcher

Jun 2024–Jan 2026

Opinion.aiMachine Learning Engineer

Apr 2024–Jul 2025

University of BaltimoreMachine Learning Engineer

Education

M.S. Data Science
Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
2026 · Conferral pending

B.S. Cyber Forensics
University of Baltimore
May 2025 · Summa cum laude

Mentorship

Since April 2026, I’ve mentored Sam Siavoshian in research design, statistical reasoning, literature review, and manuscript development. Sam originated the time-perception research direction and is first author of our two temporal-representation papers.

Get in touch

contact

For conversations about learning, physical reasoning,
and building useful research systems.

omar2001ramadan@gmail.com