Jacob Krucinski
Jacob Krucinski

Jacob Krucinski

MS in Artificial Intelligence @ Northeastern

ML & Computer Vision for Physical Systems

About Me

I graduated with a Master's in Artificial Intelligence in April 2026 from Northeastern University, after earning a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Connecticut. I'm passionate about machine learning and computer vision applied to physical systems, from autonomous vehicles to surgical robotics.

Through internships, coursework, research, and personal projects, I've built cross-disciplinary skills spanning computer science, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. My goal is to pursue a career as a machine learning engineer working on hard problems at the intersection of perception and the physical world.

Research

Aerobat flapping-wing robot in flight

Real-Time Video Stabilization and Motion Deblurring for Flapping-Wing Robots

Master's Thesis

Jacob Krucinski

Northeastern University — Master's Thesis (Advisors: Alireza Ramezani, Rajagopal Venkatesaramani) · 2026

A real-time image preprocessing framework for visual odometry on the Aerobat flapping-wing MAV consisting of two modular ROS 1 components: a RobustL1-based electronic image stabilizer and an IMU/CNN-guided non-uniform Wiener deblurring pipeline. They both address camera jitter and motion blur from wing-stroke dynamics. The stabilizer runs at 100+ FPS and the deblurring pipeline at 21.4 FPS end-to-end at 480p, with a +1.02 dB PSNR improvement on Aerobat sequences and a 72.8% RMSE reduction in ORB-SLAM3 localization error on the V2_03_difficult EuRoC sequence.

NLP relation extraction architecture diagram

NLP Relation Extraction in Biomedical Literature

Jacob Krucinski

Lund University — EDAN70 Course Project (Advisor: Sonja Aits) · 2023

Explored BioGPT and SciBERT for relation extraction on annotated biomedical corpora (BC5CDR, ChemProt, DrugProt). Fine-tuned SciBERT on a combined ChemProt+DrugProt corpus, improving precision, recall, and F1 by 5%.

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Machine Learning for Missile Streak Detection and Localization

Jacob Krucinski, Adam Bienkowski, Krishna Pattipati

IEEE Aerospace Conference · 2021

Computationally efficient CNNs for detecting and localizing streaking targets from an optical sensor's focal plane array. The ML models were ~340× faster for detection and ~360× faster for localization on 256×256 images vs SOTA probabilistic methods. Detection ROC AUC: 0.94 (ML) vs 0.85 (SOTA); localization MSE: 0.035 (ML) vs 0.243 (SOTA).

Education

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Northeastern University · Boston, MA

Sep 2024Apr 2026

M.S. in Artificial Intelligence — Vision concentration (Thesis Track)

GPA: 4.00 / 4.00

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University of Connecticut · Storrs, CT

Sep 2020May 2024

B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering, Minor in Mathematics — Computational Data Analytics concentration

GPA: 3.87 / 4.00

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Lund Institute of Technology (LTH) · Lund, Sweden

Jan 2023Jun 2023

Study abroad semester — computer vision, databases, process simulation

Work Experience

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Engineering Development Program (EDP) Intern · Travelers Indemnity Co.

Jun 2025Aug 2025

Hartford, CT

  • Worked with the Business Insurance Location Intelligence team to automate manual workers' compensation and reinsurance adjustments and compute AI-based metrics.
  • Won 1st place at the intern hackathon for a novel approach to automate filing auto collision claims.
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Systems Modeling Consultant · Qualtech Systems Inc.

Jan 2024Apr 2025

Rocky Hill, CT

  • Built a Simulink plant model with custom Stateflow libraries for a NASA rocket propulsion system and tested fault injection.
  • Fine-tuned a 3D generative AI model used to develop training materials for the U.S. Marine Corps.
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Engineering Development Group Intern · The MathWorks Inc.

Jun 2023Aug 2023

Natick, MA

  • Designed and implemented a REST API feature with asynchronous support to facilitate integration with MATLAB and other language environments.
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AI/ML Summer Engineering Intern · Medtronic

Jun 2022Aug 2022

North Haven, CT

  • Deployed an SVM model on the Signia surgical stapler for staple-quality assessment from sensor measurements.
  • Trained a CNN model for visual staple-quality assessment from intraoperative imagery.
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AI/ML Engineering Intern · Lockheed Martin

May 2021Jul 2021

Shelton, CT

  • Part of the (Neural) Network Training & Deployment IRAD team developing an ML-based object-detection model for the Stalker XE drone.

Featured Projects

Coursework, senior design, and personal builds across ML, computer vision, and robotics.

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Music Stem Separation with Text-Conditioning

Northeastern · CS 7150 Final Project · 2024

Added text-based stem conditioning to HTDemucs via cross-attention with CLAP text embeddings, allowing extraction of arbitrary stems beyond the model's fixed set. Achieved 5.04 dB SDR across 4 stems on MUSDB18.

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Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition

Northeastern · CS 5100 Final Project · 2024

Built a webcam-based gesture recognition system enabling intuitive, keyboard-and-mouse-free computer control: scroll up/down, zoom in/out, and switch applications. Covered the full ML workflow from data collection through deployment.

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Automatic CVT for a Bicycle

UConn · Senior Design Project (Advisor: Swapna Gokhale) · 2024

In collaboration with Transcend Bicycle, designed the hardware and software for an automatic CVT controller that performs gear shifts hands-free. Modeled the human-bike-CVT system in Simulink and auto-generated embedded C with the Embedded Coder Toolbox.

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Cup Pong Robot

UConn · ECE 3161 Intro to Robotics · 2023

Built a fixed-base 2-DOF articulated manipulator that plays cup pong, using Dynamixel MX64-AR motors, a Lego NXT turret motor, a Raspberry Pi 4, and ArUco-tag-based cup detection via OpenCV.

Tools/Skills

Languages

PythonC / C++MATLABRJavaTypeScriptHTMLBashVHDLScheme (R5RS)

ML & Computer Vision

PyTorchTensorFlow / Kerasscikit-learnOpenCVGRIPHugging FaceCNNsTransformers

Tools & Frameworks

Simulink / StateflowEmbedded CoderROS 1GitDockerREST APIsLinuxLaTeX

Hardware

Raspberry PiArduinoDynamixel Servos