Jacob Metoyerresearch / computation / making

About

Jacob Metoyer.

Student, researcher, programmer, cosplayer.

I like following a question far enough that I have to learn something new to answer it.

I’m at Cal State Long Beach studying computer science and physics, with a minor in biology. I’m a BUILD Scholar, and I hope to go on to an MD/PhD. I speak English and Spanish.

My research has moved around more than I expected. I started with mouse behavior in the Tsai Lab, spent time on protein molecular dynamics with a lab at Georgetown, and now work with motion-capture data in gait rehabilitation research. Along the way I contributed to a surgical-ergonomics study and did independent analyses in connectomics and structural bioinformatics. What ties it together is that I usually end up working on the data itself: cleaning it, checking it, and making the failures visible.

That habit spills into software. I’m building CaptureSuite for recording multi-sensor research sessions. CanvasPilot came from a practical snag: a lot of schools don’t let students create Canvas API tokens. And uma-sim is a fan-made simulator for Umamusume. I also run my own experiments on how people and AI systems work together, and I try to keep the same standard there: save the evidence, keep the failures, measure before claiming anything.

Outside of that there’s cosplay, music, anime, manga and games, which get their own page here.

What I’m working on now →