Jacob Moore

Jacob Moore is a computer scientist specializing in applications of artificial intelligence to Buddhist Studies. His current research focuses on multimodal foundation models for translation, transcription, and conversational applications in the Tibetan tradition.

He earned a BA in philosophy from Bowling Green State University in 2015, MA in philosophy from Wayne State University in 2017, MS in data science from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2024 and is currently a PhD student in computer science at Lawrence Technological University.

He is the developer of MLotsawa, a family of Tibetan-English neural machine translation models; Bocluster, a low-code tool for Tibetan language text clustering; and Tibetan-WER, an open-source Python library for calculating word and syllable error rates in Tibetan language automatic speech recognition applications.