I build image models from scratch, and I study what they remember.

PhD candidate in data science at Kennesaw State University, M.S. in Analytics from Georgia Tech. Former photographer and cinematographer, former calculus teacher. I study what image models remember, I map Hollywood as a network, and I explain both with pictures.

Work
How Diffusion Models Memorize
A diffusion model trained from scratch on 300 photographs from one film set, and the membership inference attack that finds them again. Scroll to watch it learn, then run the attack yourself.
Interactive · 2026
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Essays
Good Node Hunting
An interactive figure of Samuel L. Jackson's 5,607 co-stars, and the weighted network of 259,489 film actors it came out of.
Hollywood · 2026
Kickoff: Conference Realignment, the Portal, and the Coaches Who Got Fired
Between seasons, teams change leagues, rosters turn over through the transfer portal, and coaches get fired. Part two: What that churn does to Vegas, the AP poll, the ESPN Pick'em Crowd, and the Machine, measured over twenty-one seasons.
Sports Analytics · 2026
Preseason: Simulating a Million College Pick'em Entries Across 10,000 Seasons
An unreasonable amount of machine learning, aimed at a free football Pick'em contest. Ten thousand simulated seasons, a million simulated opponents, and a year-long attempt to out-forecast Las Vegas. Part one: What the game is, and what the numbers say it takes to win it.
Sports Analytics · 2026
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Selected publications
SMITE: Step-wise Memorization Inference with Two-channel Error for Membership Inference on Fine-Tuned Retinal Diffusion Models
Richardson, Aygun, Karakaya · IMNS 2026 · to appear
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon and the Weighted Hollywood Actor Network
Richardson, DeMaio · CAC 2026 · to appear
Benchmarking the Dell Pro Max GB10 Against the NVIDIA DGX-1
Richardson, Aygun, Karakaya · IMNS 2026 · to appear
Image Quality Assessment of VistaView & iNview Portable Retinal Imaging Systems
Richardson, Suer, Aygun, Karakaya · IEEE EMBC 2026 · to appear
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