Jacob Sacks
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Sacks is a postdoctoral researcher at the Paul G. Allen School, University of Washington, specializing in how learning sculpts neural population activity for motor control and decision making. He combines task-optimized and data-driven recurrent neural networks with tools from deep learning, optimal control, reinforcement learning, and graphical models to probe rapid adaptation versus multi-day learning dynamics. His PhD work integrated learned components into model predictive control to boost controller performance and efficiency, bridging robotics and neuroscience. A NIH T32 Computational Neuroscience fellow with a decade of research experience, he brings a rare mix of theoretical rigor and applied systems thinking across disciplines from biomedical engineering to machine learning. Colleagues value his ability to translate control-theoretic insights into interpretable models of neural population reorganization.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science and Engineering at University of WashingtonBachelor’s Degree Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinMaster of Science - MS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBioengineering, Bioengineering at University of Pittsburgh
English
Github Skills (20)
gazebosim10
occupancy-grid-map10
ignition10
yarp10
gazebo-simulator10
ros8
flux5
machine-learning5
data-science4
deep-learning4
tensorflow3
robotics2
robot2
stochastic1
acceleration1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jisacks/jisacks.github.io
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Personal website
Contributions:11 pushes in 2 years
jisacks/dmpo
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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