Projects

Publications, research, and selected projects across machine learning, multi-agent systems, signal processing, and embedded systems.

Publications & Research

  1. Animated wildfire spread prediction cover

    ShearFuse-UNet: Hadamard, DCT, and Shearlet Transform Fusion for Next-Day Wildfire Spread Prediction

    Ene Meco, Yingyi Luo, Emadeldeen Hamdan, Adam Watts, Ahmet Enis Cetin

    arXiv:2606.14071 [cs.CV], 2026

    A lightweight transform-fusion U-Net for next-day wildfire spread prediction from multi-modal satellite data.

    arXiv PDF
  2. Animated multi-agent learning cover

    Single-Agent Poisoning Attacks in Multi-Agent Learning Environments

    Ene Meco · Supervised by Prof. Ermin Wei

    IDEAL Summer Research · Northwestern University, Jun–Aug 2026

    Research on mixed-autonomy systems, game theory, and deep learning for multi-agent settings.

  3. Animated FPGA spectral analysis cover

    Spectral Analysis on FPGA for Detection of Astrophysical Signals

    Ene Meco

    Research Intern · Paris Observatory | PSL, Jun–Jul 2024

    Python-based FFT signal processing on Red Pitaya for weak astrophysical signal detection.

    Open report

Machine Learning & AI Projects

  1. Animated recommendation systems cover

    Recommendation Systems with Movie Ratings

    Ene Meco

    ECE 491, Throughout Apr 2026

    Built and compared recommendation-system approaches using MovieLens ratings, including a popularity baseline, matrix factorization, SVD, and a neural recommender.

    Open presentation
  2. Animated reinforcement learning card-game cover

    AI Agent for Murlan (Self-Play Reinforcement Learning)

    Ene Meco

    Personal Project, Dec 2025

    Designed an RL environment and trained a self-play PPO agent with a policy-value network and legal-action masking for a multi-agent Albanian card game.

  3. Animated Balkan dynamics clustering cover

    Unveiling Regional Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Balkan Countries in 2023

    Ene Meco

    University of Chicago, Mar 2025 · PCA, k-means, unsupervised learning

    Applied unsupervised learning to profile Balkan countries based on national characteristics.

Sorbonne Université (2022–2025)

  1. Animated heart-rate monitor circuit cover

    Heart Rate Monitor Circuit

    Ene Meco

    Sorbonne University, Apr 2024 · OrCAD PSpice, Raspberry Pi

    Simulated the analog and digital circuit blocks, then acquired and processed circuit data to estimate BPM.