Jesse Roberts
Assistant Professor at Tennessee Technological University
Nashville Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolJesse Roberts is an assistant professor of computer science with eight years of experience bridging applied AI research and engineering practice, currently faculty at Tennessee Technological University. His work centers on empirical methods for NLP and transformer-based LLMs, with a strong emphasis on human-adjacent applications across digital humanities, law, robotics, cognitive science, and endangered language preservation (notably Cherokee and Irish). He combines academic rigor from his PhD training with hands-on systems experience from roles in controls engineering and co-op program management, enabling practical deployments and reproducible evaluation. Jesse pursues interdisciplinary projects—from game theory to computational physics—that aim for measurable positive impact, and he often frames technical work through cultural and ethical lenses. An avid trail runner, rock climber, and aspiring author inspired by Holmes and Isaacson, he brings narrative sensibility to technical communication and pedagogy.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Tennessee Technological UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Vanderbilt University
Irish
Github Skills (6)
capstone10
electrical-engineering8
computer-engineering8
simulation6
monitoring3
large-language-models3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TnTech-ECE/CapstoneStarterRepo
May 2022 - May 2023
This repository can be forked and modified as a starting point for a TnTech capstone project GitHub
Contributions:2 reviews, 11 PRs, 101 pushes in 1 year
pointcapstonestarting-pointmodified
DillonSW/Capstone_Team_5
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:77 reviews, 7 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 months
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