Jacob F. Valdez
Robots @Limboid, AI @ComputaCo, solutions @TheAgentSuite, developer @HonestScope. Working on the master plan. Contact if interested. more ››
Education
- 2020 - 2022
BSCS
The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
- Studied CS with focus on ML
- Networked with professors, PhD's, and ML industry figures
- Also learned to operate CNC's and shop equiptment at the FabLab
- GPA: 3.6/4.0
- 2014 - 2018
AAS in Mathematics
Navarro College, Waxahachie, TX
- 85 hours completed
- Graduated Magna Cum Laude
- GPA: 3.9/4.0
- 2014 - 2018
STEM classes + Navarro College and UT Tyler dual-credit program
Waxahachie Global High School, Waxahachie, TX
- Created dozens of projects and videos, wrote a handful of programs, and gave more than a dozen presentations
- Took Calculus I-III and Linear Differential Equations in my senior year and made A+'s
- Graduated rank 7
- GPA: 3.9/4.0; 5.6/6.0
Experience
- 2019 - Present
Founder, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, ...
Limboid LLC
- Developing artificial general intelligence 🧠 and humanoid robots 🤖!
- Extremely multidisciplinary role covering cloud and web dev, ML, mechatronics, robotics, PCB design & fab, supply-chain & logistics, accounting, marketing, and the typical entrepreneur stuff
- We're almost ready for production!
- 2022 - Present
Software Engineer
Motio Inc
- Develop Soterre for Qlik Sense
- Started as intern in June; full-time since August 16th 2022
- 2021 - 2022
Student Research Assistant
IT Lab, UTA
- Collaborated with research group to evolve and test a flask-based statistical visualization tool CoWiz (renamed as Dash)
- Developed full stack web server MLN-Dashboard using Next-React-GraphQL-Strapi stack
- 2021 - 2022
Student Research Assistant
UTA College of Social Work, Arlington TX
- Maintained and enhanced multi-platform (iOS and Android) data collecting application MyAmble and web admin dashboard
- Stack: javascript, firebase, flutter (mobile), and vue (admin dash)
- 2016 - 2020
Crew Trainer
McDonald's, Midlothian TX
- Led safety committee and addressed employees during 30-minute monthly safety meetings
- Trained employees on-the-job and formally
- In addition to 4 years of formal education, actively used Spanish on-the-job
Projects
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- will provides simple abstractions and functions for encoding and decoding arbitrary python objects
- will support differentiable programming (including differentiable control flow)
- will introduce intelligent object creation / selection / other runtime code generation features
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- Proof of concept of the creative potential of ML models
- Stack: GPT-3, Jekyll, render.com
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node-tree❘ module for generating synthetic demonstration-description pairs using psuedo context-free grammar
Spring 2022 – Present 🚧 -
- Unifying framework for multitasking × multimodal × { supervised, self-supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement } = multi-paradigm learning
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- Initial architect for server until research assistant role ended
- Stack: typescript, react, next.js, GraphQL, Prisma, and later Strapi
- Presented on design and development in May 2022
- The Multi-Agent Network (aka: the
MAN) ❘ A modular developer-oriented framework for integrating pretrained and learning agents
October 2021 – Present 🚧- A modular developer-oriented framework for integrating pretrained and learning agents
- 👩🏽🌾 The Fertile Cresent ❘ Ecosysten of projects, repositories, and libraries to promote the advancement of artificial intelligence
October 2021 – Present 🚧- Computatrum: an AI agent that interacts with a computer using standard peripherals (keyboard, mouse, display, etc.) Limboid/computatrum
- The Multi-Agent Network (MAN): a modular developer-oriented framework for integrating pretrained and learning agents Limboid/man
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TensorCode: Python library for intelligent run-time code analysis and code-gen using deep learning Limboid/tensorcode Limboid/deep-tree -
Unsupervised: keras look-alike for modular unsupervised deep learning Limboid/unsupervised -
node-tree: generative design library for synthesizing animations, web content, and task-labeled environment interactions Limboid/node-tree - and many more repo’s
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Broadening and Building Beyond Classical Reinforcement Learning ❘ Affective psychology + multi-agent reinforcement learning
September 2021- Presented at the 2021 Broaden and Build Conference
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Summer Break 2021! (album) ❘ A collection of various songs capturing various emotions I experienced during the 2021 summer break
August 2021- My first musical 🎶 expidition
- Origonally for personal pleasure, but later posted for others to enjoy
- Available on SoundCloud
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- Web developer on covid19 data visualization dashboard project
- Stack: Python, pandas, flask
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- Android app developer in a 4-person group
- Stack: Java, Kotlin, SQLite, Android
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- One graph isn’t enough; multigraph neural networks are the way to go!
- Enables end-to-end differentiable, dynamic graph construction, node-centric multihead attention, and many other powerful features
- Developed library on top of tensorflow and keras
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- Forked from alshedivat/al-folio
- Tech used: Jekyll, liquid, jupyter, GPT-3, github
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- Team research project analyzing misinformation related to coronavirus vaccination hesitancy and sentiment and semantics of the COVID19 pandemic
- We literally worked around the clock for the weekend of the Datathon
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pip install jplotlib- A useful library, until I discovered
plt.subplots
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- developed variant of the popular unsupervised learning algorithm SOM
- available on pypi:
pip install tf-som
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Predictive General Intelligence ❘ Theoretical framework an plan for developing artificial general intelligence
March 2021 -
DesparadosAEye ❘ Project manager, general app developer, and ML engineer for a 5-person group developing open-ended Android chatbot
January 2021 – May 2021- Stack: blender-bot, Kotlin, Java, SQLite, Android
- Full-stack ML project involving research & training, presenting at UTA Innovation Day 2021, and porting Facebook’s blender-bot model to tflite
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multi-graph-former❘ Like a transformer, but for graph2graph instead of seq2seq
September 2020 – May 2021- Sequences are just a special class of graphs. The multi-graph-former can process any kind of graph.
- Supports intra- and inter-graph attention, vert updates, and edge updates with dynamic structure
- Implemented gated-update mechanism for both vertices and edges with einsum-based operations
- Example applies multi-graph-former to building a graph-structured hidden state for a recurrent neural network that encodes a sequence of words
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Home Internet Factory ❘ CNC router + 3D printer + Raspberry Pi 4 + camera + Internet
April 2020 – May 2020- Internet connected prototyping machine hub
- Raspberry Pi 4 served as gateway to tabletop CNC router, 3D printer, two cameras, and 3.3V logic I/O auxiliary interfaces
- Published article IndustrialAutomation@home describing journey to develop and operate home internet factory
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Workplace Surveillance System ❘ When you need to catch employees on their phone, this will do the trick!
July 2019- Employee phone detection computer vision system
- Stack: web 1.0, tensorflow.js, mobilenet
- Live demonstration to employer succeeded identifying employees on their phone, but employer didn’t end up purchasing a subscription
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- Active project to develop teachable yet autonomous open-ended computer interaction agents
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- Rule-based past and present tense English and Spanish translator
- Programmed in C# with Visual Studio
- Formalized many more aspects of English – Spanish translation
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- Automated stochiometry solver for CHEM 1411/12
- Programmed in C# with Visual Studio
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- Basic Spanish – English translation system
- Programmed in C# with Visual Studio
- Implements formal language parsing and production system
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- 36”×36” sheet metal cutter with server and Arduino client control systems
- Designed and developed C# .svg parser, toolpath scheduler, and optimizer, Arduino controller with serial protocol and electronics, and CNC machine with electrodischarge machining head.
- Presented on project in May 2015 and June 2016
- Development journey published here
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- Helps students avoid plagiarism
- Hybrid Google site and Web 1.0 app written in text editor!
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- Learned mechanical engineering basics
- Intended to make a 3D printer, but extruder never added
- Re-attempted project in October 2014 with design modifications
Achievements
- 2022-02-15
2022 Future Texas Business Legend Award Finalist
Texas Business Hall of Fame
- For submitting Limboid LLC business proposal
- 2022-04-15
Co-Author on Paper Accepted to Baltic DB&IS 2022 Conference
Baltic DB&IS 2022
- 2021-09-27
Broaden and Build Conference Honorable Mention
UTA College of Social Work
- For presenting work Broadening and Building Beyond Classical Reinforcement Learning
- 2021-04-01
- 2013-05-29
20% Project Presentation Honorable Mention
FSMS
- For presenting the CookieBaker 3D Printer to a 100-person audience
Certifications
- Feb 2022
AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Specialty
- April 2021
Google TensorFlow Developer Certification
- Oct 2020
DeepLearning.AI TensorFlow Developer
- Sept 2020
Deep Learning Specialization by DeepLearning.AI
- Mar 2019
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
- Mar 2019
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
- Mar 2019
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Long-Term Goals
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Develop artificial superintelligence
- Write 25% of the Fertile Crescent
- Develop and open-source a minimally-viable demonstration of artificial general intelligence, the Computatrum
- Use this AGI to finish programming the Fertile Crescent and iterate on its own design
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Mass-produce affordable, intelligent humanoid robots
- Use the Computatrum to refine my design for the Limboid robot
- Use Limboids and the Computatrum to iteratively design, build, test; bootstrap production by hand
- Selectively offer on-demand humanoid-robots-as-a-service on the basis of its humanitarian, social, and economic impact
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Catching up on ML trends, learning about the natural world, open-source work, biking, eating oatmeal