My name is Robert Klock (he/him). I'm a fourth-year at Oberlin College studying Computer Science with Math and Philosophy minors.
Note: Not everything about me fits on my resume, so some more projects/academic stuff are on this page. If you want to know more about me personally, go here!
Resume
Current Cool Things
Research
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Automatic Detection and Warning of SQL-Injectable Code on StackOverflow
This is my Honors project. We (Professor Cynthia Taylor, Sam Fertig, Evans Muzulu, and I) are developing a bot to automatically scrape, analyze, and warn users on StackOverflow of potential SQL-Injection vunerabilities in their code. My current responsibilities are data labelling and preparation, building out a neural net using logistic regression and tf-idf tokenization, and contributing to writings in development.
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Implementation of Evidence-Accumulating Neurons and Cortical Switch Mechanisms for Machine Learning
This is also machine learning research, but more theoretical. Professor Patrick Simen and I are implementing decision-making circuits in neural networks to generate accurate, quantitative choices in response to noisy stimulus. The long and short of this work is building a model that will accurately classify noisy data that changes with time.
Projects and Experience
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Software Engineer, Machine Learning Lead
- Building:
- Automatic content identification and generation using GPT-3
- Course recommendation systems
- An entirely new backend in Ruby on Jets, previously Node.js
- Shipped:
- Third-party integrations (Zapier, Retool, etc)
- Multiple client-facing features including course-cloning functionality and tools for data analytics
- Profanity detection exposed through AWS Lambda
- Building:
A Twitter-scraping sentiment-analysis bot my friends and I developed for a class project.
Computational oncology research I did with Professor Carlo Maley of ASU.
I originally wanted to go to art school and study painting (which I had a taste of through SAIC's ECP program, where I studied oil painting with Magalie Guerin for a summer). I met Professor Bob Bosch at Oberlin and was greatly inspired by his work and book OptArt. This is the repo for my math art projects, I have been particularily drawn to using differential equations and noise in these creations.
Random Academic Things
- The highest semester GPA I've gotten thus far has been 4.11, the lowest was 3.00. These are directly correlated with my enjoyment of classes relative to each semester.
- I've competed in the Putnam Math Competition for two years in a row now. Proud to say I at least understood what some of the questions were asking me to do. If you're curious, I ranked 3824/4623 in 2018 and dead last in 2019.
- I created and led the Oberlin Workshops and Learning Sessions with my friend Emily Tucci for Oberlin's Data Structures in Java course (CSCI 151).
Dont be a stranger:
Email: rklock AT oberlin DOT eduMore personal info:
Each month I make a playlist of songs I enjoy that month, here is April of 2021's:
**Note: Sometimes Spotify default links to Carly Rae Jepsen. I have no control over this, oh well.**
You can follow me on Spotify here:
Here's a cool visual of music I've rated on RYM:
Some of my favorite podcasts:
- The Huberman Lab Podcast
- Lex Fridman Podcast
- My favorite conversations: Ian Goodfellow, Grant Sanderson, Lisa Feldman Barrett, François Chollet
- Rabbit Hole from the New York Times
Here are the books I'm currently reading or interested in, courtesy of Goodreads:
Robbie's books
![Linear Algebra and Its Applications [with CD-ROM]](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1400564687l/309767._SX50_.jpg)
Some of my art!
