You may ask yourself how would I know him? You may ask yourself what does he do in his spare time? And you may ask yourself which languages does he know? And you may say to yourself I’d like to talk to this guy! Watching the days go by…
My name is Jacob Pawlak, I am a computational linguist, data scientist, artist, gardener, and digital cowboy. I have worked for 3M/Solventum, Meta, Apple, local startups, and more. Currently, I am open to new opportunities and actively looking for my next career step.
A tldr; about me: I love collecting, modeling, and telling stories with data. Well versed in Python, SQL, Machine Learning, NLP/NLU, and Dashboarding. I’m currently working on a project that combines ML models and botanical science – check it out here. Some of my other hobbies are gardening, woodwork and sculpture, cooking, and playing with my 3 cats!
Check out some of my cool projects over here.
A few more things I would like you to know about me
We could get into a list of my professional highlights, or I could list out all of my relevant classes from college – you can find that on my resume page. Here, I’d like to give you a little bit of background behind the worker.
During college I picked up an affinity for language models for chatbots, ethics in A.I., python scripting, and big data analysis. I continue to carry all those passions today, and am lucky to thread them into daily life. My largest (and probably most time consuming) hobby is gardening, not only do I love and enjoy plants, but it’s a huge bed of data. Climate dashboards galore, crop steering models, fertilizer experiments, so many tests to run!
Linguists are also prime data scientists too if you think about it! All we do is collect and analyze data, just like, language patterns and speech sounds. In the same way that I like making dashboards for visualization, I like making models and grammars to describe language use. Previous jobs have included health care language, virtual assistants for wearables, and complete dialogue design for IVR models.
With so much time spent in front of a screen, I like to do a little hands-on work to balance myself out. Aside from gardening, I really enjoy working with wood and making sculpture. I joined the Nikecraft Weartester program in 2021 and have been doing my best to make art every day since then. Check out some of my projects below!
Recent Projects
Here are a few of my recently completed projects. For a more complete collection, take a look at my work
Some stuff that I like
I am not a photographer, I don’t take pictures all the time or even regularly, but here are some pictures that I like, and might help you understand some of the background to my life. Of course I have to pay internet tribute and post a picture of my cat, a meme (my personal music tastes), and a few pictures of my living space. It doesn’t mean much to most people, but I also have a few pictures of my most recent vacation to New York to see my favorite eSports team – Astralis. Counter Strike is one of my favorite games, and I would love to see another tournament soon. To the stars!
