Applied AI · Industrial ML · AI Security
Practical AI,
from research
to the real world.
I'm Mike Esmalifalak — a machine learning scientist with a PhD and 15+ years turning research into systems that work in factories, power grids and businesses. I write about what actually works.

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What I write about
Industrial AI
Predictive maintenance, anomaly detection and machine learning on the factory floor and the grid.
02AI Security
Adversarial attacks, data poisoning and keeping learning systems trustworthy — from smart grids to LLMs.
03AI Strategy
How organizations of every size can adopt AI deliberately: what to build, buy, measure and avoid.
04Applied Machine Learning
Methods, models and the engineering judgment that turns them into working systems.
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