Jacob Valdez

GPA 3.7/4.0; graduate August 2022

GPA 3.9/4.0; 85 hours taken; Graduated Magna Cum Laude

GPA 3.9/4.0; 5.6/6.0; Graduated rank 7

• Develop Soterre for Qlik Sense

• 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)

• Collaborated with research group to evolve and test a flask-based statistical visualization tool CoWiz
• Developed full stack web server MLN-Dashboard using Next-React-GraphQL-Strapi stack

• Developing artificial general intelligence :brain: and humanoid robots!
• Taken on roles: ML R&D, mechatronics, and robotics engineering, PCB designer, cloud and web dev, other programming, system architecting, supply-chain optimization, logistics, supplier negotiation, accounting, and the typical entrepreneur stuff
• We’re almost ready for production!

• 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

• 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

• Presented at the 2021 Broaden and Build Conference

• My go-to solution when professors ask you to not use a third-party autograd framework
• Later extended to include connect-4 reinforcement learning support
• Developers can purchase jnumpy-themed apparel here

• Web developer on covid19 data visualization dashboard project
• Stack: Python, pandas, flask

• Android app developer in a 4-person group
• Stack: Java, Kotlin, SQLite, Android

• 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

• 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

• pip install jplotlib
• A useful library, until I discovered plt.subplots

• developed variant of the popular unsupervised learning algorithm SOM
• available on pypi: pip install tf-som

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Employee phone detection computer vision system
• Stack: web 1.0, tensorflow.js, mobilenet
• Demonstration to employer succeeded identifying employees on their phone, but employer didn’t end up purchasing a subscription

• Active project to develop teachable yet autonomous open-ended computer interaction agents

• Rule-based past and present tense English and Spanish translator
• Programmed in C# with Visual Studio
• Formalized many more aspects of English – Spanish translation

• Automated stochiometry solver for CHEM 1411/12
• Programmed in C# with Visual Studio

• Basic Spanish – English translation system
• Programmed in C# with Visual Studio
• Implements formal language parsing and production system

• Helps students avoid plagiarism
• Hybrid Google site and Web 1.0 app written in text editor!

• Learned mechanical engineering basics
• Intended to make a 3D printer, but extruder never added
• Re-attempted project in October 2014 with design modifications