Hi, I'm Jacob Berger

I'm a PhD student in Artificial Intelligence at Oregon State University, working under Dr. Lizhong Chen at the STAR Lab. My research focuses on enforcing semantic constraints in language model decoding — work that led to a first-author paper at COLM ("Parsimonious Decoding"). I also work as an AI Research Engineer at an NLP SaaS startup, where I co-authored the approved Phase I SBIR proposal and build LLM pipelines on AWS, GCP, and Vercel. I hold a BS in Applied CS & Math from OSU (GPA 3.9+) and have deep experience across Python, PyTorch, LLM fine-tuning and serving, and Linux systems. I'm driven by the intersection of mathematical rigor and practical AI — building tools that are both principled and useful.