Jacob Tyo
Director Of AI ML at Raft
Sutton, West Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Tyo is a Director of AI/ML with a decade of experience building production-grade machine learning systems, currently leading AI at Raft after rapid progression from Principal ML Engineer. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon and combines deep research expertise with hands-on product and startup experience as the founder of an AI-powered ecommerce platform that scaled to over 1M photos. His background includes classified R&D at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (TS/SCI), where he translated novel deep learning research in vision and NLP into operational capabilities. Jacob is skilled at architecting cost-efficient cloud infrastructure, assembling and mentoring engineering teams, and shipping robust computer vision and NLP pipelines under real-world constraints. Based in Sutton, West Virginia, he brings a rare blend of academic rigor, defense-grade engineering discipline, and entrepreneurial grit to commercial AI challenges.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Electrical Engineering at West Virginia UniversityBraxton county high schoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University
English
Github Skills (3)
natural-language-processing1
classification1
nlp1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JacobTyo/jacobtyo.github.io
Dec 2019 - Oct 2023
Contributions:3 PRs, 30 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 10 months
JacobTyo/Valla
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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