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jacobhorne-jth/README.md

Hi, I'm Jacob 👋

CS @ UC Irvine working across ML systems, AI research, and software engineering.

I like building where models meet systems: inference, evaluation, data pipelines, agents, and the infrastructure that makes AI useful beyond a demo. My work has ranged from production recommendation systems over hundreds of millions of records to LLM confidence research, scientific ML, robotics, and low-level GPU programming.

Portfolio · LinkedIn · Google Scholar · Resume

What I'm working on

  • 🏜️ Sandia National Laboratories — building full-stack applications and backend services that make AI research accessible through user-facing tools
  • 🤖 Underwater Robotics @ UCI — developing perception software for autonomous underwater robotics
  • 🔬 UCI Digital Learning Lab — researching LLM confidence and evaluation across multi-agent reasoning and multi-turn Text-to-SQL
  • 🌡️ Calit2 @ UCI — developing physics-informed ML to replace expensive thermal simulations
  • ⛓️ Blockchain @ UCI — building smart-contract security tooling with Foundry, Slither, and adversarial test contracts
  • ♻️ Lazarus — building open-source recovery infrastructure for abandoned cloud-dependent devices by analyzing protocols and recreating the minimum services needed for local control
  • ContextCUDA — exploring custom C++/CUDA kernels for long-context LLM inference, including attention, RoPE, KV-cache management, and context efficiency

Experience

  • Sandia National LaboratoriesSoftware Engineer Intern
    Building full-stack applications and backend services that turn AI research into usable software.

  • Capital OneSoftware Engineer Intern
    Built recommendation infrastructure over ~800M customer-response outcomes, including a 28× faster Databricks sampling pipeline and an SDK migration that reduced serving latency by 25% for systems reaching 60M+ users/month.

  • Underwater Robotics Project @ UCISoftware Engineer, Perception
    Developing perception software for UCI's autonomous underwater robotics team.

  • Blockchain @ UCITechnical Developer
    Building AI-powered smart-contract security tooling; previously developed autonomous agent infrastructure for the decentralized AI trading platform Agonus.

  • CareTech @ UCISoftware Developer
    Built a real-time food recognition and nutrition system with PyTorch and FastAPI, processing 28K+ images across 270+ food categories and training models to 81% test accuracy.

  • Commit the Change @ UCIFull-Stack Developer
    Built healthcare scheduling and provider infrastructure supporting 8,000+ patients/year and saving staff 12+ hours/week.

  • SENS PsychologySoftware Development Intern
    Built clinical intake and operations software used across 1,200+ monthly patient interactions, cutting intake time 50% and manual emails 75%.

Projects

  • PROP.INTEL · IrvineHacks 2026
    AI property-risk platform combining property records, FEMA disaster data, and machine learning to generate real-time risk analysis for U.S. properties; modeled exposure across 3,100+ counties and 8 hazard types

  • Agonus · Blockchain @ UCI
    Decentralized AI trading platform with autonomous LangChain ReAct agents, on-chain tournaments, and Celery/Redis infrastructure for reliably orchestrating 10+ concurrent agents

  • EthicsChat · Tata Consultancy Services
    Ethics-gated financial chatbot combining a DeBERTa moderation layer with an end-to-end RAG pipeline for document-grounded responses

  • GitHub Onboarding Agent · Personal Project
    Developer onboarding system that ingests unfamiliar repositories and provides code-aware exploration, semantic search, and grounded RAG Q&A

Research

UCI Digital Learning Lab

Researching confidence, reliability, and evaluation in LLM systems, with a focus on token-level decoding confidence, multi-agent reasoning, LLM-as-judge evaluation, and multi-turn Text-to-SQL.

Calit2 @ UCI

Developing physics-informed neural models as fast surrogates for computationally expensive thermal simulations. Built a physics-informed GRU constrained by heat-transfer equations, achieving R² = 0.99, 1.54°C MAE, and roughly 12,000× faster inference than FEA simulation.

🛠️ Technical Toolkit

Languages

Python C++ CUDA TypeScript JavaScript Java SQL

ML / AI

PyTorch TensorFlow scikit-learn PySpark OpenCV LangChain LangGraph OpenAI

Data / Scientific Computing

NumPy Pandas Matplotlib Databricks Airflow

Backend

FastAPI Node.js Express PostgreSQL pgvector Redis Celery

Systems / Cloud

Linux Bash Docker AWS Azure Git CI/CD

Frontend

React Next.js Tailwind CSS

Beyond the build

Learning about marine life and ocean creatures 🐠 · playing basketball 🏀 · finding good food 🍜

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  1. prop-intel prop-intel Public

    AI-powered property risk intelligence through title history, disaster exposure, and market analysis for any U.S. address.

    TypeScript

  2. blockchainuci/Agonus blockchainuci/Agonus Public

    ai robots competing in crypto trading tournaments

    TypeScript 2

  3. TCS-COMPSCI-180A/chatbot TCS-COMPSCI-180A/chatbot Public

    Python

  4. github-onboarding-agent github-onboarding-agent Public

    An AI-powered GitHub onboarding agent that ingests any repository and provides code-aware summaries, repo exploration, and RAG-driven Q&A using Python, FastAPI, LangChain, LangGraph, Pinecone, and …

    Python

  5. context-cuda context-cuda Public

    Python

  6. jacobhorne-jth.github.io jacobhorne-jth.github.io Public

    Portfolio website

    TypeScript