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Jefferson Kline

Jefferson Kline

software engineer

work

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Technical Lab Assistant USDA-ARS · Dr. Paulitz Lab Software and data-collection workflows, rehired through WSU. 2026-05 present
Research Assistant WSU · Dr. Banerjee Lab Temperature-controlled growth chambers on Arduino and Raspberry Pi with LoRa and Wi-Fi links, plus a full-stack system for telemetry and remote control of up to eight chambers. 2026-05 present
Research Assistant WSU · Storfer & Sharma Labs Measuring and reducing shortcut learning in cancer-detection models, alongside cell culture and western blotting in the wet lab. 2025-08 present
Technical Lab Assistant USDA-ARS · Vogel Plant Pathology Built a data-acquisition system for fast quantification of seed yield and health. Bacterial isolate collection, DNA extraction, and PCR. 2024-03 2025-08
Teaching Assistant Washington State University Biweekly nursing sessions on laboratory skills and clinical concepts. 2024-08 2024-12
Home Care Aid Family Resource Home Care Supported individuals with physical limitations. 2023-04 2023-08

projects

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Seed Analysis Pipeline Data-acquisition system for fast, accurate quantification of seed yield and health.python usda-ars
FragZone Browser FPS on an authoritative server, with networking, tests, and a live deployment to operate. personal
Shortcut Learning Audit Reproducible study measuring and reducing shortcut learning in cancer-detection models.python research
HiveMind Live product. Source is not public. hackathon
LLM Router Token-efficient model routing with measured evaluation and rollback.docker personal
Hospital Analytics Warehouse FHIR and CSV ingestion with validation, transactions, and dimensional modelling.sql personal

education

B.S. Computer Science wsu · mathematics minor 2022–2027
B.S. Biology wsu 2021–2027

record

SURCA Gray Award wsu undergraduate research — second-highest award, for the shortcut-learning work 2026-03
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner amazon web services · expires 2028-12 2025-12