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Nathan Jacobs is a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Washington University in St. Louis working with Robert Pless. He is a member of the Media and Machines Lab.
Nathan earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (Summa Cum Laude) at the University of Missouri (Mizzou) in May 2000. Upon graduation he worked as a professional software developer where he helped build a variety of multimedia, database, and web-enabled e-commerce applications. Some of the multimedia applications are on display at the St. Louis Science Center. In addition, the ecommerce applications and frameworks have been responsible for millions of dollars of transactions.
After working for several years as a software developer Nathan began his return to academia as a teaching assistant for the Spring 2003 class on Programming Language Compiler Design and Construction at the University of Missouri. The following Fall he taught a course on the Theory of computation. For the next few years he continued to work as a software developer and took more classes in the Computer Science Department. In the Spring 2005 he decided to become a fulltime graduate student so he moved to St. Louis and began working on a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Washington University.
His primary research interest is computer vision. Specifically, he is interested in what can be learned from a scene by watching it for a long time and how this learning can be used to overcome traditional vision problems.
When he is not working he likes to play ultimate frisbee and doodle and (everyonceinawhile) update his blog.