Summary
Jeff Hykin is an AI robotics researcher and engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building deep learning systems and web-scale software, currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Vision at Texas A&M. He has combined academic research on subtle emotion recognition with practical engineering—building React front-ends, Flask APIs, and data-sync systems—across university labs and small teams. Comfortable moving between research and production, he has tackled everything from mobile app QA to technical support and inventory automation. Based in College Station, he brings a strong interdisciplinary background in cognitive science and AI, and outside the lab he’s an avid public speaker and rock climber, traits that reflect his comfort with both communication and calculated risk-taking.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence at The University of Texas at Dallas
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Vision, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Vision at Texas A&M University
English