Jeffrey Hastings
PhD Student
Jeff Hastings is a PhD student in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University, advised by Dr. Joshua Peterson. He earned a BA and MA in Political Science from Utah State University, followed by an MS in Computational Social Science from the University of California, San Diego. His research applies machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning to better understand, explain, and improve human, artificial, and agentic decision-making. Prior to his PhD, he worked as an AI Data Scientist at Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Research focus:
- Deep Learning
- Decision Science
- Reinforcement Learning
- Agentic AI
- Explainable AI