Jack
Hogan

Researcher • Hacker • Leader

Era Labs

Full-Stack Engineer, 2026 - Present

Era Labs is a startup focused on creating intelligent experiences that feel like a natural extension of your life and allowing you to rapidly prototype and create your own devices with minimal hardware knowledge.

  • Designed and implemented a patent-pending firmware architecture supporting dynamic peripheral registration and bytecode execution for ~100ms idea iteration.
  • Designing and fabricating circuits for new product lines with microamp-scale power draws and efficient layouts.
  • During my fellowship with Era from 2025-2026, I designed a cohesive software stack for registering, finding, and collaborating with Beacons, a hardware/software solution for fostering real-time social connections at events, using traditional and LLM-based machine learning techniques.

Peraton Labs

Machine Learning Researcher, 2025 - 2026

Peraton Labs is a research division of Peraton creating solutions to cybersecurity and machine learning problems.

  • Created a new pipeline for concurrently testing different GNN architectures, speeding up testing by 2-3x.
  • Investigated and implemented multiple bleeding-edge GNN architectures, improving task accuracy by 50%+.
  • Developed and presented a technical report on a novel GNN architecture, demonstrating significant performance gains and guiding next-phase research.

Purdue Hackers

Engineering Division Lead & Interim President, 2024 - 2026

Purdue Hackers is a student organization focused on helping people create interesting creative-technical projects in a fun environment.

  • Oversaw all engineering projects for Purdue Hackers, a 2000+ member student organization focused on innovation and rapid prototyping.
  • Managed a team of 10+ officers, balancing budget and time constraints while delivering multiple large-scale technical initiatives.
  • Designed and maintained infrastructure for the Passports initiative, including authentication and management systems in Rust and TypeScript, supporting hundreds of active users.
  • Led development of The Sign, a meter-tall Conway glider installation representing the club’s logo; project was accepted to Hackaday and drew 1,000+ online views.
  • Spearheading the Beacons project in collaboration with Era Labs, deploying early prototypes at student events.
  • Organized and ran major events, including a 200+ person callout, hack nights, BENTO 🍱, and technical workshops.

Alluja

Founder, 2022 - Present

Alluja is a startup focused on developing innovative solutions for everyone.

  • Creator of multiple products including mobile apps (SwiftUI), libraries (Swift, Rust), backend servers (Rust, Python), and frontends (Svelte, Leptos) impacting 5,000+ users.
  • Komori, a Discord Siri Shortcuts integration, with paid downloads on the App Store.
  • Alluja WebSockets, a WebSocket testing client for macOS, with 100+ downloads.

CodeCheck

Lead Researcher, 2023 - 2025

CodeCheck was a piece of in-development software to detect plagiarism in submitted source code assignments.

  • Selected by Purdue faculty to lead an independent research project addressing plagiarism detection in the Computer Science program.
  • Designing a language-agnostic detection system using Abstract Syntax Trees, parsing techniques, and machine learning to identify similarity beyond surface-level code patterns.
  • Conducted large-scale testing across multiple courses, targeting 1,000+ student submissions annually to improve fairness and academic integrity.

Leidos Innovation Center

High-Performance Software Intern, Summer 2024

The Leidos Innovation Center is Leidos’s research and development division.

  • Created and refined GPU-based signal processing algorithms in CUDA, Rust, and Python for real-time applications, improving performance by 400%.
  • Developed a real-time machine learning system to lock onto hidden radar targets using PyTorch with 85%+ accuracy.
  • Resulting work will be deployed to active defense platforms.

Peraton

Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2023

  • Automated document processing systems using AI-based parsing systems to increase processing efficiency.
  • Authored and presented a whitepaper on systems and processes developed.
  • Managing daily intern standups and kept tasks on track.
  • Created data ingest and management dashboards for U.S. contractors.