Alex Calderwood
Graduate Teaching Assistant
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Calderwood is a PhD student in Computational Media and a Graduate Teaching Assistant at UC Santa Cruz with nine years of experience bridging AI, creative coding, and new-media storytelling. They teach courses spanning experimental theater, game AI, creative coding, and generative design while conducting research in AI + culture, interactive narrative, and text art. Prior roles include building news automation at Bloomberg, NLP engineering, and storytelling-focused AI research at Midjourney, reflecting a practice that combines production-grade software with experimental art. Alex’s background in NLP (MS from Columbia) and hands-on projects in journalism and performance technology give them a rare fluency in both rigorous language models and expressive, performative systems. They’re based in California and often explores how authorship and culture shift when storytelling tools become computational.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Coding Retreat (Formerly 'Hacker School'), Coding Retreat (Formerly 'Hacker School') at Recurse CenterUniversity of California Santa CruzMaster of Science - MS Computer Science - Natural Language Processing, Master of Science - MS Computer Science - Natural Language Processing at Columbia UniversityBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Montana State University
Github Skills (104)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
flax10
deep-learning10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
seq2seq10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
bert10
speech-recognition10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alex-calderwood/creative-sketches
Jul 2019 - Mar 2025
Some fun p5 experiments
Contributions:1 PR, 96 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
alex-calderwood/spindle
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:116 commits, 96 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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