Alex Scarlatos
Teaching Associate
Town of Smithtown, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Scarlatos is a research-driven software engineer and Teaching Associate with a decade of experience building AI-infused educational technologies and production web systems. Currently pursuing a PhD at UMass Amherst, he develops reinforcement learning and LLM-based student models to improve early math tutoring and automated assessment, and has co-authored 15+ papers from his ML4Ed work. He pairs industry-grade full‑stack experience at Bloomberg with research stints at DeepMind and EdTech internships, bridging scalable engineering, pedagogy, and evaluation. As an educator he designed and taught a first-year seminar on generative AI that combines technical foundations with societal critique and hands-on prompting practice. Outside academics he composes and consumes music and film, and still climbs—often bringing a creative, improvisational perspective to human-AI interaction problems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstMasters of Science Computer Science, Masters of Science Computer Science at Stony Brook University
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Github Skills (4)
acl7
phonetics7
computational-linguistics6
natural-language-processing5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
alexscarlatos/filmio
Oct 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 4 years 5 months
umass-ml4ed/mathGPT
Apr 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:65 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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