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Personal site · est. 2026

Stavion
Colquitt

Audio ML Engineer, Senior AV/AI Engineer, and Recording artist in Chicago. I build stuff!

8+
Open-source
projects
5+
Records
released
Domains
still to learn
01

Work

Real-time speech enhancement, edge ML, and production AI architecture and much more! Selected open source below — more on GitHub.

Audio ML Noise Reduction

2026

Real-time background noise suppression for Teams and Zoom. Custom U-Net trained on DNS Challenge 4. ONNX CPU inference. Built from scratch — dataset, model, training, live pipeline.

  • PyTorch
  • ONNX
  • Real-time DSP
  • U-Net
View repo

Hybrid RAG Pi

2026

Production hybrid retrieval combining Qdrant (vector) and SQLite FTS5 (keyword), plus hierarchical conversation memory with LLM-powered fact extraction. Deployed on Raspberry Pi 5.

  • Node.js
  • Qdrant
  • FTS5
  • Docker
  • Edge
View repo

Audio Analysis MCP

2026

Real-time audio analysis as an MCP server — frequency reports, stereo imaging, mix analysis, key detection. Built to let AI assistants reason about what's playing during a production session.

  • MCP
  • Python
  • Real-time
  • DSP
View repo

More soon

2026—

Picture-to-CAD vision model, real-time backing vocalist architecture, and a handful of smaller experiments coming through the MSAI program.

02

Music

I write and produce as Stavion Colquitt. Singer, pianist, and engineer of my own records. New material in the pipeline; older work below.

03

Study

  1. 2026–2028

    M.S., Artificial Intelligence

    Lewis University

    Currently enrolled
  2. 2025

    CCNP Collaboration

    Cisco

  3. 2025

    Dante Level 3

    Audinate

  4. 2022

    B.S., Digital Audio Recording Arts

    University of St. Francis

04

Socials

Where I show up online — music drops, work in progress, the occasional life moment.

05

Connect

Best for: research collaborations, audio ML conversations, music questions. Slow for cold outreach — I read carefully before I reply. For more on who I am, head to about me.