Jackson Clark
Research Intern at Discovery Partners Institute
Urbana, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJackson Clark is a CS PhD student at UIUC with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently researching AI for systems and working on agent reliability as a research intern at Microsoft. He blends academic rigor—conducting AIOps research with Tianyin Xu—with hands-on engineering from a long freelance career building full-stack Electron apps, smart contracts, and end-to-end deployments. His NASA internships spanned reinforcement learning for multi-agent path-finding, spectral ML, and spaceflight software (including a CCSDS-based FEC C++ library), showing a knack for applying ML and systems work to real-world, safety-critical problems. Jackson also teaches data science to K–12 educators and maintains Top Rated Plus freelancing credentials, reflecting both technical depth and a commitment to practical impact and knowledge transfer.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Data Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Data Science at University of Illinois ChicagoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (23)
angularjs10
html9
ai-agent8
pathfinding7
swift7
microservices7
trading6
multi-agent5
mozilla4
firefox4
compliance-automation4
privacy3
automation3
ai3
compliance3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
HacksonClark/hacksonclark.github.io
Sep 2024 - Jul 2026
Academic website for Jackson Clark
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 10 months
SREGym/SREGym
Nov 2025 - May 2026
Can AI agents resolve production incidents?
Contributions:32 reviews, 55 PRs, 168 pushes in 6 months
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