Kennedy Applied Sciences
Privacy-first AI for regulated industries. The most valuable data in healthcare, defense, and finance can never be shipped to someone else's cloud, so the intelligence has to come to the data.
Ben Kennedy
Privacy-first AI for regulated industries. Interactive explainers on how modern AI actually works.
Human in the loop, by design.
01 · Work
Intelligence that comes to the data.
StratoSort
A desktop application that brings modern AI to your files without sending a single byte off your machine. Automatic organization, semantic search, conversation with your own documents, and a knowledge graph of everything you have, all running locally.
Open work
Selected projects and experiments on GitHub.
02 · Explainers
How the machine actually works.
Interactive, plain-language walkthroughs of the machinery behind modern AI. Each is a standalone page.
Explainer 01 · First in the series
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Explainer 02
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Explainer 03
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Latent Space Learning
How models compress meaning into geometry, and why that one idea powers semantic search and most modern AI products.
Inside a Transformer
From tokens and embeddings to attention and output, what happens between your prompt and the response.
Inside a Spiking Neural Network
How spiking networks encode information in the timing of discrete events, and why neuromorphic computing matters.
03 · Research
The SCAN Ecosystem.
Cognitive architectures, multi-agent adaptive learning, psychometrics, and neuromorphic computing. Three peer-reviewed publications through IGI Global and Springer, dissertation in progress.
Full SCAN Ecosystem on SCANERAD.com →
- SCAN
- The cognitive architecture that anchors the ecosystem.
- SCANUE
- A multi-agent adaptive learning framework with human-in-the-loop oversight built in.
- SCANAQ
- A 36-item psychometric instrument developed alongside the architecture, measuring cognitive and affective self-regulation across eight subscales, from cognitive flexibility to perceived stress.
- STAC
- Neuromorphic spiking neural network research. Explainer: Inside a Spiking Neural Network.
04 · Background
Where this comes from.
AI scientist with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and a decade delivering production technology in regulated healthcare and defense environments. I lead GenAI delivery for a global laboratory enterprise, building RAG-powered pipelines that automate document-heavy clinical workflows. Through my independent practice, I built StratoSort, a privacy-first on-device AI application designed for air-gapped deployment, and published the SCAN Ecosystem cognitive AI framework across three peer-reviewed venues. I combine deep technical range across LLMs, agentic systems, and on-device inference with the compliance fluency to ship inside HIPAA, CMMC, and DoD constraints.
- PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Capitol Technology University
- BA, Psychology, Belmont Abbey College
- PMP · ACQ 160