Jackson Hassell is a Research Engineer at Megagon Labs. Prior to Megagon, he worked at Applied Research Laboratories, where he worked on a variety of projects, including leveraging synthetic data to bootstrap predictive models. He received his MS in Business Analytics from the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include agentic frameworks and self-improving LLMs. Outside of work, he enjoys spending his time gardening, reading science fiction, and playing with his dogs.