Jacob Zietek

Jacob Zietek is a Behavior Cloning Engineer at Persona AI Inc, specializing in training robotic systems. Previously, Jacob served as an Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Armada, focusing on real-time computer vision, and held multiple roles as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at Purdue University, contributing to interactive robotics and chatbot AI development, including a successful project that secured $250,000 from Amazon Alexa. Jacob also founded and led ML@Purdue, establishing it as a prominent AI/ML hub at Purdue with significant membership and project involvement. Internships included work at Amazon, where Jacob developed an NLP-driven healthcare recommendation engine, as well as positions at Shield AI, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Brookhaven National Laboratory, where Jacob engaged in various AI and machine learning projects. Jacob Zietek earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Purdue University in December 2023 and holds a high school diploma from Farmingdale Senior High School.