James Skripchuk
Teaching Assistant Professor at Tufts University
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJames Skripchuk is a Teaching Assistant Professor and PhD candidate in Computer Science with 11 years of experience bridging computing and music through data-driven education. He specializes in using data and software to improve CS learning, having developed a course and interactive Python tools that analyze and generate music via Markov models and scraped melody databases. His background spans academia and industry—from DevOps and cloud infrastructure at JPMorgan Chase to hands-on research in high-performance computing, robotics, and virtual-reality audio systems. Based in Somerville, MA, he combines practical tooling (Docker, cloud VMs, CI) with curriculum design, often translating complex technical concepts into engaging, cross-disciplinary learning experiences.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Charter School of WilmingtonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityHonors Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Honors Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Delaware
English
Github Skills (18)
synthesizer9
music9
machine-learning8
artificial-intelligence8
textbook8
python7
html7
javascript6
computer-science5
science5
fundamentals5
java2
phaser2
webpack1
lightning1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jskripchuk/text-to-music
Apr 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 6 pushes in 9 months
jskripchuk/music-analysis
Oct 2017 - Jan 2022
Python music analysis library for MUSC106: Computational Thinking in Music.
Contributions:76 commits, 2 PRs, 63 pushes in 4 years 3 months
python
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