Research

Dr. Goldblatt's work follows one thread from language to machine learning. Trained as a linguist and literary scholar of German, he entered applied artificial intelligence through the computational study of language. In Fall 2022 he founded the Saga Applied AI Research Lab and directed it through 2024, building machine learning pipelines on frontier and open-source foundation models and prototyping the multi-agent workflows that became Parley, the multi-tenant agent platform he now operates. As AI Strategist and Applied Researcher in the Office of Research, he ships production AI systems across the university and forward-deploys agent infrastructure to partner sites.

Representative work:

Parley: a multi-tenant agent platform with MCP-based tool use, vector retrieval, evaluation harnesses, and lifecycle observability, routing multiple model providers through a single gateway.

Archival film reconstruction: forensic audio denoising and multilingual subtitling for foreign language films, with speech-foundation-model transcription and per-asset chain-of-custody logging. The boundary-detection component led to a patent-pending method for bidirectional video segmentation in January 2026.

Privacy-preserving AI with the OpenMined community: differential privacy and federated learning, with Secure Enclave-based training over restricted data.

Manuscripts:

Goldblatt, Dylan. "The Vitruvian Source of Marvell's Tortoise in 'Upon Appleton House, To My Lord Fairfax,'" South Central Review 36.3 (Fall 2019). (KSU link)

Translations:

Lerner, Marc. "Competing memories of a Swiss revolt: The prism of the William Tell legend," in Rhythms of Revolt, eds. Guillorel, Hopkin, Pooley (Routledge, 2018), 90–120.
Four translations of articles by William C. McDonald (2015–2017), in Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, Emblematica, Studia theodisca, and other venues.

Grants and fellowships at KSU:

• Accelerating Foundation Models Research Grant, Microsoft / OpenAI, 2023–24
• First-Year Scholars Program Research Grant, KSU, 2023–24
• German Culture Weeks Grant, German Embassy, 2022
• Textbook Transformation Grant, Affordable Learning Georgia, 2019–21

Open Educational Resources:

Peterson, Shane, Sabine Smith, Dylan Goldblatt, and Susanne Estrella. Der und mehr. Kennesaw State University, December 2020.

(Open German-language textbook for the elementary and intermediate sequence (GRMN 1001–2002), authored under an Affordable Learning Georgia Textbook Transformation Grant and released under CC BY 4.0. Available at https://alg.manifoldapp.org/projects/der-und-mehr.)