Jacob Raoul Molnia

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Experience

Research Assistant

Professor Murai, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA

May 2025 - Present

  • Active research with a focus on TSFM, LLM-Lasso, RAG, and prefix-tuning.
  • Built reproducible experiment manifests for forecasting runs across multiple small-data regimes.
  • Drafted paper sections, figures, and ablation tables for faculty review.

Research Assistant

Professor Paffenroth, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA

May 2025 - Present

  • Active research with focus on dynamical systems, reinforcement learning, RNNs, and traditional MLPs.
  • Prototyped constraint-aware training loops and evaluation scripts for sparse trajectory data.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

TMS Lab, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA

May 2024 - January 2025

  • Consolidated multiple paper-specific software toolkits into a unified MATLAB framework, improving maintainability and scalability.
  • Implemented a comprehensive unit testing framework for CI/CD and robust software development.
  • Applied unit testing methodologies, version control systems, and object-oriented programming techniques.

Academic Tutor & Teaching Assistant & Resource Coordinator

Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA

May 2024 - Present

  • Provide expert tutoring in advanced mathematics and computer science through the Academic Resource Center.
  • Serve as Teaching Assistant in the CS Department — office hours, lab sessions, grading for Software Security Engineering and AI. Create and oversee homework assignments for AI.

Education

MS in Computer Science

Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA, USA

Aug 2023 - May 2027

BS in Mathematical Science

Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA, USA

Aug 2023 - May 2027

BS in Computer Science

Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA, USA

Aug 2023 - May 2027

Abitur Degree - Bavaria

Privates Gymnasium Huber Munich, Bav, DE

Sept 2014 - June 2022

Honours

  • Dean's List — Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Best PLA Computer Science — Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2024/2025