Maxwell Jacobson
Graduate Research Assistant
Highland Park, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaxwell Jacobson is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Purdue University with a decade of hands-on experience spanning AI, machine learning, reinforcement learning, neural networks, and robotics. He balances rigorous research as a Graduate Research Assistant with teaching and course development experience, having written and lectured on Neural Image Processing and advanced neural projects. Max funds his studies through a teaching fellowship and previously taught systems programming and software testing, demonstrating strong pedagogy alongside technical depth. He has longstanding grassroots involvement in FIRST Robotics—over a decade with nearly six years as a mentor—where he coaches robot design and Java/Android programming, signaling a talent for translating research into practical robotics education. His background includes mobile and front-end development internships, showing an ability to move between embedded, web, and research domains. Passionate about applying ML to space exploration and high-tech R&D, he’s pursuing roles that bridge cutting-edge research and real-world robotic systems.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Purdue UniversityHighland Park High School
Github Skills (22)
net-library9
lift8
discord-bot8
discord8
image-synthesis8
maze7
discord-py7
python6
latex5
robot5
meta-learning5
pytorch5
bug-tracker4
reinforcement-learning3
robotics3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
arcosin/Doric
Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
Doric is a column neural net and progressive neural net library built on pytorch.
Contributions:2 releases, 30 commits, 7 pushes in 11 months
net-librarypytorch
grr1/PoachNet
Dec 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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