Jackson Clark is a CS PhD student at UIUC with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently researching AI for systems and working on agent reliability as a research intern at Microsoft. He blends academic rigor—conducting AIOps research with Tianyin Xu—with hands-on engineering from a long freelance career building full-stack Electron apps, smart contracts, and end-to-end deployments. His NASA internships spanned reinforcement learning for multi-agent path-finding, spectral ML, and spaceflight software (including a CCSDS-based FEC C++ library), showing a knack for applying ML and systems work to real-world, safety-critical problems. Jackson also teaches data science to K–12 educators and maintains Top Rated Plus freelancing credentials, reflecting both technical depth and a commitment to practical impact and knowledge transfer.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Data Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Data Science at University of Illinois Chicago
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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