Clayton Cohn
Research Assistant at Vanderbilt University
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolClayton Cohn is a research-focused computer scientist with 11 years of engineering experience, currently pursuing a PhD at Vanderbilt while working as a Research Assistant on AI and NLP for learning environments. He designs conversational pedagogical agents, performs discourse and event analysis of nursing and high-school science training, and explores multimodal, few-shot, and data-augmentation approaches to education-focused NLP. Previously he led a small team as an iOS developer building a music discovery app and proprietary artist-performance algorithms, bringing product-minded engineering to academic research. A former Marine sergeant and Purple Heart recipient, he pairs disciplined leadership and field-tested resilience with deep technical rigor. Based in Nashville, he blends hands-on prototyping with theoretical inquiry and a playful coding curiosity summed up by his GitHub motto: "You had me at Hello World!"
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at DePaul UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Vanderbilt University
French
Stackoverflow
873reputation
131kreached
11answers
34questions
Github Skills (56)
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning10
natural-language-processing10
nlp10
sentence9
artificial-intelligence9
transformers9
language-model9
bert9
tensorflow9
ai9
deep-learning9
openai9
speech-recognition9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
claytoncohn/CSC440
Jan 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:52 commits, 51 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
claytoncohn/MMLTE
Oct 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:68 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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