Alex Calderwood
Graduate Teaching Assistant
California, United States
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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.
10 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 (86)
transformers10
python10
deep-learning10
gemma10
glm10
multimodal10
audio10
transformer10
nlp10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning-models10
machine-learning10
inference10
llm10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ExpressiveIntelligence/expressiveintelligence.github.io
May 2022 - Apr 2025
Group website for EIS
Contributions:1 PR, 15 pushes in 2 years 11 months
group-websiteeis
alex-calderwood/spindle
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:116 commits, 96 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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