Jason Chao
Software engineering for research, industry, and civil society. UK non-profit leadership at national scale. Policy research adopted by UN treaty bodies.
Recent
MAGI: a deliberative multi-LLM councilThree LLMs answer in parallel, then — optionally — review each other's anonymised responses and revise. A rapporteur writes the synthesis; the lowest-confidence model writes the minority report. Open-source Python, eight decision methods, live at magi-council.org.
UK local elections 2026 — a forecast comparatorA static, interactive site comparing eight published forecasts of the 7 May 2026 UK local-election seat outcomes against the actual result. Four ways to read the same data, transparent dated provenance, recomputes three of the eight from current polling against a 2022 baseline. Live.
Leading Hongkongers in BritainDirecting a grant-funded UK non-profit community organisation — scaling from a volunteer response to structural impact, with AI-assisted drafting on the casework side.
Earlier
Flattening 8,000-file Android APKs into a single Parquet tableA research tool that lets non-engineers grep across years of Android apps in seconds. AppInspect, built for the SFB 1187 platform-studies group at Siegen.
A dictionary-natural Wordle solverConditional probability over two word lists, plus k-means over character-encoded words to pick openers. No training, no simulations at runtime. Live; talked about at a PyData London Meetup.
AppTraffic — mobile network forensics, usable by non-engineersA browser-operated platform that gives privacy and platform-studies researchers live access to the network traffic of any Android or iOS app — without a networking background.- Defending a civil-society voting application against nation-state-grade attacksDesigning, operating and hardening a one-off civic voting system under live attack — adversarial conditions in the security sense — with a five-figure budget and a team of one.
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Projects span software engineering, civic technology, and non-profit leadership. Based in the UK.
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