My Work Now:
- Chief Cuddle Officer of Serenity Plushies, AI mental health stuffed animals for pre-teens and teens. I've gotten a grant from 1517 Fund and am currently applying to more as a member of merge.club!
- Building an app with Reverberation (do everything better with music)
- Scaling Athena Edtech, SAT tutor LLMs.
- On the Snap, Council for Digital Well Being (1/18 Nationwide)
- VP of the Teen Advisory Board at Generation SERVE. We help facilitate teen-led & fundraising events and help run the non-profit (Who do we work with?)
My Past Work:
- A brain tumor detection CNN-based AI model (article, video)
- NeuroHarmony, a program that plays music based off of your focus (article)
- NeurotechX Global Hackathon Winner. Won against engineers from UPenn, Oxford, etc. and adults with brainspace Youngest winners in NTX history.
- Worked alongside Meta & pitched an AI voice moderation system in Meta Quests to Meta Oversight Board Members (slides)
- Top 100/10,000 students in the Pivotal Essay Competition (essay)
Pictures of My Work:
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Free Time:
- Learning new things and having deep researched-based conversations about them. Especially philosophy.
- Understanding metaphysics and watching TV/shows that embrace it like Rick and Morty, The Good Place, Everything Everywhere All At Once, etc.
- Creating the perfect bite. Cooking Korean & Middle Eastern food. Obsessed with cookie science & fermentation.
- Researching the neuroscience of music & music theory (I've played classical guitar for a decade). Here are my Snoopy playlists!
- Photography, especially within nature or hikes.
Philosophies:
- Here are some quotes I live by.
- Here are some books I've read and am reading now!
- I value: curiosity, creativity, deep conversations, bias for action, kindness, and authentic enthusiasm.
Feel free to reach out to me at alexbmaustin@gmail.com or you can chat with me using one of the platforms below.