Jacob Stevenson

Research software engineer, BYU music research

• Solo-built a full-stack melody-similarity search, with OCR and RAG, over a 10k+ record dataset.
• Cut indexing time 99% (overnight to minutes) and query time 96% (minutes to seconds) for researchers worldwide.
• Presented the work at conferences in Texas, Salzburg, and Venice.

Search for 19th-century French music press

• Built keyword and semantic search (PostgreSQL full-text, bge-m3 embeddings, reranking) over 4,033 documents and 16,574 pages, running on local GPUs.
• Retired AI-written answers at the scholars’ request; every result is a quoted, cited source page.

LLM evaluation for BYU religion researchers

• Built an LLM pipeline that codes newspaper articles on the researchers’ own schema and measures its agreement with human coders.

Offline Android app for a BYU field course

• Building an offline field guide from a 40-page microbiology guidebook, checked by 1,243 automated content assertions.

Computer vision

• Automated cropping for 7k+ images: 25× faster, with 96% less manual editing for a team of five.

Signal processing for “Evaluating EEG Monitoring of Standard TMS Intervention for Anxiety”

• Used FFT and statistical modeling on EEG and heart-rate data to separate state anxiety from trait anxiety.

Coursework: advanced software construction, advanced programming, web programming, algorithms, computer systems, software design, systems programming, mathematical cryptography, and computer security.