{"id":13189,"date":"2026-10-15T16:21:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T22:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/?page_id=13189"},"modified":"2026-10-23T12:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:29:24","slug":"troy-jenks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/about-us\/computingdirectory\/current-students-directory\/troy-jenks\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Jenks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"374\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/981\/2026\/10\/Troy_Jenks_phd_student_profile.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13224\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7290539385999886\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 id=\"h-education\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Emphasis in Artificial Intelligence<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">B.S. Computer Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-biography\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Troy Jenks is a Ph.D. student in Artificial Intelligence at Boise State University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">He is an experienced technology leader with more than 15 years of industry experience with automation, validation and infrastructure choosing now to focus deeper in AI to bridge industry best software development practices with AI training and MLOps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">He operates under Thanks Jenks LLC, currently working as an independent contractor with Netacent Inc, where he focuses on AI research and engineering for unemployment insurance applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">He is pursuing doctoral study at Boise State University in Computer Science with an emphasis in AI. Areas of research interest include conversational AI safety and latent space analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\"><a href=\"mailto:troyjenks@u.boisestate.edu\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto:troyjenks@u.boisestate.edu\">troyjenks@u.boisestate.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Emphasis in Artificial Intelligence B.S. Computer Science Biography Troy Jenks is a Ph.D. student&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4907,"featured_media":0,"parent":12366,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13189","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13189"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13230,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13189\/revisions\/13230"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}