Umar Faruk Abdullahi
Builder. Researcher. Explorer
How can autonomous systems reason and act reliably under uncertainty?
Machine Learning Engineer @Huawei R&D. MSc Intelligent Systems (CV & Robotics) at @EDISS (Erasmus Mundus Scholar). Previously, built Adpay at @Mercurie NG.
Check out my writings here, or on Substack for more spiritual and theological topics. Feel free to reach out for anything!
Updates
Mar 2026
Our paper "Beyond Suffixes: Token Position in GCG Adversarial Attacks on Large Language Models" was accepted at the ICLR ICBINB 2026 Workshop.
Nov 2025
Graduated from the EDISS master's program. My thesis on Adaptive Bathymetric Planning can be found here.
Feb 2024
Presented ongoing work on Parkinson's detection & biomarker discovery at the EDISS Winter School in Västerås.
Oct 2023
Won the Nokia Challenge Hackathon for network bandwidth optimization with NetworkAsCode.
Aug 2023
Began the EDISS joint master's (Finland & Spain) on an Erasmus Mundus scholarship.
Nov 2021
Ran a workshop on digital skills for recent university graduates in Abuja.
Research
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Beyond Suffixes: Token Position in GCG Adversarial Attacks on Large Language Models
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Hybrid MCTS–CEM for Adaptive Bathymetric Planning
Building
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engineering
WildAgent
Multi-agent web text collector with planner, explorer, harvester, and auditor agents plus LLM-as-a-Judge quality control.
research
BathyNav
Hybrid MCTS and Cross-Entropy planning framework for adaptive bathymetric mapping with autonomous underwater vehicles.
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Agents101
LLM agents from zero to hero — design patterns for tool use, planning, and memory.
Writing
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