Adam Blake
Chief Technology Officer at CourseKata
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Blake is a research-driven technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in Los Angeles with 12 years of experience translating cognitive science into practical learning tools. With a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from UCLA, he has led interdisciplinary projects that build R packages, JupyterHub/Notebook extensions, and front-end teaching tools to improve metacognitive judgments and memory performance in educational, legal, and training contexts. His academic trajectory—from postdoc to assistant/associate project scientist—reflects deep expertise in experimental design and applied tool development rather than just product management. At CourseKata he now combines that research clarity with startup technology leadership, steering product engineering toward evidence-based learning outcomes. Colleagues value his ability to turn nuanced findings about how people judge their own learning into usable software that measurably improves instruction and assessment.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cognitive Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cognitive Psychology at University of California, Los AngelesBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology at California State University, Fresno
Github Skills (74)
tidyr10
quarto10
r-package10
r9
statistics9
dplyr9
experiment9
notebook9
tidyverse9
psychology9
jupyter9
data-science9
conda9
jupyter-notebook9
rmarkdown9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
coursekata/coursekata-r
Nov 2020 - Jul 2022
A collection of packages and functions for teaching statistics and data science
Contributions:145 commits, 5 PRs, 208 pushes in 1 year 8 months
data-sciencestatistics
UCLATALL/CourseKataData
Jan 2020 - Nov 2023
Work with data from CourseKata data science classes
Contributions:4 releases, 3 PRs, 45 pushes in 3 years 10 months
data-science
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