Independent research

Models that learn
and can explain why.

Adaptive and explainable machine learning, tested the hard way: equal compute budgets, plans fixed in advance, and every result reported, including the nulls.

each box is a learned category
boxes grow until a new one is needed

Focus

Three questions we keep asking.

01

Adaptive resonance

Fuzzy ARTMAP learns new categories without forgetting old ones. We study how automated tuning and the decision readout change its accuracy when every compared method gets the same compute budget.

02

Explainable by design

Classifiers whose decisions can be read and audited by the people accountable for them, especially in regulated settings such as health and security.

03

Honest evaluation

Fair comparisons are the hard part. We fix the analysis plan before the main run, log deviations, and publish code and full results.

Papers

Co-authored papers.

IEEE BigData 2023

Explainable e-Discovery (XeD) Using an Interpretable Fuzzy ARTMAP Neural Network for Technology-Assisted Review

An interpretable Fuzzy ARTMAP approach to document review.

ALTARS 2024 at ECIR

Towards Explainable Total Recall in TAR for eDiscovery Using Retraining of the Underlying Neural Network Model

CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3832.

Doctoral dissertation

Empirical Assessment of Self-Optimizing Fuzzy-ARTMAP (SOFAM) Performance in Early Diabetes Detection

Sole-authored and not published; reviewed by my doctoral chair. Studies automated tuning and decision readout of Fuzzy ARTMAP on 253,680 CDC survey records. PhD conferred July 2026.

How we work

Rigor you can check.

Equal budgetsEvery method gets the same compute.
Plan firstThe analysis is fixed before the main run.
Log deviationsChanges are recorded, never hidden.
Report nullsNegative results are published too.

About

Corey Wade, PhD

Researcher and technical leader at the intersection of infrastructure, security and AI. PhD in Computer Science (AI/ML) from National University, conferred July 2026.

More than twenty years of building and running enterprise networks: data center, SD-WAN, and hybrid cloud for HIPAA-regulated workloads. Managed engineering teams and ran an independent consulting practice before turning to research.

Contact

Research, collaboration, questions.

corey@wadetheory.com