Alexander Zook
Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Zook is a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA with 11 years of experience applying AI and ML to game design, simulation, and product development. He holds a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech and has driven research and production work across Blizzard, Riot, and Unity, specializing in procedural content generation, automated playtesting, player modeling, and matchmaking optimization. His work spans sim2real distributed training for vision and robotics as well as reinforcement learning and recommender systems in games, emphasizing safety, bias reduction, and privacy-preserving simulation. Known for turning research prototypes into production features, he blends computational creativity with rigorous data science to both create new experiences and streamline game development workflows. Based in California, he brings a rare mix of academic depth and industry impact that consistently pushes how AI augments designers and players.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Northside College PrepPhD, Human-Centered Computing, PhD, Human-Centered Computing at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBA, Biology - neuroscience, BA, Biology - neuroscience at University of Chicago
Japanese
Github Skills (76)
artificial-intelligence10
cuda10
camera-api10
pytorch10
protobuf9
unity3d9
synthetic9
deep-learning9
segmentation9
serialization9
synthetic-dataset-generation9
deep-reinforcement-learning8
computer-vision8
mmap8
audio8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zookae/kaolin
Feb 2022 - Jul 2024
A PyTorch Library for Accelerating 3D Deep Learning Research
Contributions:14 pushes, 25 branches in 2 years 5 months
deep-learningpytorch3d-deep-learningpytorch-library
zookae/latex
Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:31 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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