# Ziyam Khan

> Developer, researcher and Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology at Parul University, Vadodara, India. Research: federated learning when an adversary decides who goes missing. This file is a plain-text map of https://ziyamkhan.com; every page is static HTML.

## Pages
- [Home](https://ziyamkhan.com/): Who I am, what I am working on now, projects, research, work and education, and how to reach me.
- [Projects](https://ziyamkhan.com/projects/): runets, Dept Ops, fieldbook, ziyamkhan.com, Trailblazer. Each opens into its case study.
- [Research](https://ziyamkhan.com/research/): Public papers and work in progress. Statuses distinguish acceptance, publication and experiments.
- [My Stuff](https://ziyamkhan.com/my-stuff/): Articles on two roads, Professional and Personal, and the books on my shelves.
- [My Components](https://ziyamkhan.com/my-components/): runets, my MIT library of React components, springs and WebGL 2 shader effects, with a live demo of each.
- [Working on](https://ziyamkhan.com/working-on/): A dated snapshot of what I am working on.

## For coding agents
- [runets components](https://ziyamkhan.com/my-components/llms.txt): every component and effect with its import, usage, props or parameters, files and accessibility notes, in plain text.
- Install: `npm i github:ziyam-khan/runets` (source: https://github.com/ziyam-khan/runets).

## Projects
- [runets](https://github.com/ziyam-khan/runets) (Component library, 2026): My library of React components, springs and WebGL 2 shader effects in TypeScript: glow, fire, liquid metal, weather and more, on one engine with one clock. Everything on this site that moves or glows comes from it. Stack: TypeScript, React, WebGL 2, GLSL, Motion.
- Dept Ops (Academic software, 2026 to now): Timetabling, faculty workloads and accreditation records for an academic department. A constraint solver builds clash-free timetables in under a minute. Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Python, OR-Tools. Source not public.
- fieldbook (Research desk, 2026): A native Linux desk for a research workspace kept in plain files. Agents write the Markdown and JSON; the window shows the focus, threads, tasks, lineage and notes as they change, and every file stays readable in an editor. Stack: Rust, Vulkan, Wayland, Markdown. Source not public.
- [ziyamkhan.com](https://ziyamkhan.com/) (Personal site, 2026): This site. A static export built from my research notes and my own components, tested and deployed to Cloudflare by GitHub Actions on every push, with an all-time visitor count on the home page. Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, runets, GitHub Actions, Cloudflare Workers, D1. Source not public.
- [Trailblazer](https://github.com/ziyam-khan/trailblazer) (File explorer, 2023): A fast file explorer: a Rust core for file I/O, caching and memory management behind a Tauri and React interface. Stack: Rust, Tauri, React, TypeScript.

## Papers
- [Adversary-aware aggregation](https://ziyamkhan.com/research/#ic3ai26-aawa): Conference. Accepted, to appear (conference in April 2027). IC3AI, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar NIT Jalandhar.
- [Absence Not at Random](https://ziyamkhan.com/research/#paperA-aawa-journal): Journal. Manuscript in preparation.
- [Energy-MNAR](https://ziyamkhan.com/research/#paperB-energy-mnar): Journal. Designed.
- [Traffic signal control with RL](https://ziyamkhan.com/research/#picet26-traffic): Conference. Published, May 2026. 8th PiCET, Vadodara.
- [Safe-house portal for civilians](https://ziyamkhan.com/research/#picet26-safehouse): Conference. Published, May 2026. 8th PiCET, Vadodara.

## Articles
- [How this site works](https://ziyamkhan.com/my-stuff/how-this-site-works/): From my notes to your browser. The sources, the GitHub Actions pipeline, Cloudflare and the visitor count, in one diagram. (Personal, 2026-11-11)
- [When clients disappear](https://ziyamkhan.com/my-stuff/when-clients-disappear/): The availability question behind my IC3AI paper and the follow-up study. (Professional, 2026-11-06)

## Books on my shelves
- Professional: Designing Data-Intensive Applications (Martin Kleppmann); Deep Learning (Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville); The Art of Computer Programming (Donald E. Knuth); Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective (Randal E. Bryant, David R. O’Hallaron); Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross); The C Programming Language (Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie)
- Personal: 1984 (George Orwell); Harry Potter (J. K. Rowling); Dune (Frank Herbert); The Hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien); Atomic Habits (James Clear); Deep Work (Cal Newport)

## Contact
- Email: ziyamkhan39@gmail.com
- Phone and WhatsApp: +91 91064 87516
- GitHub: https://github.com/ziyam-khan
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rHo8mnAAAAAJ
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1943-8481
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ziyam-khan/
- X: https://x.com/zimeckus

## Also
- RSS: https://ziyamkhan.com/rss.xml
- Sitemap: https://ziyamkhan.com/sitemap.xml