Alex Wu
I creatively build ML systems to solve unorthodox problems. Recent NYU CS + Data Science grad.
CS + Data Science
1st Place Datadog
2nd Place PMAI NYC
3rd Place Mistral NYC
Unicorn Bounty Spark Hack
Building
Contraband Wu
Sixth Borough
Negotiated Taste
CRUCIBLE
Two identical LLM agents play 100 rounds of Split or Steal. No pre-programmed betrayal. Through private reflection, they discover deception autonomously. Agents distill reusable skill cards from gameplay into strategic priors for future sessions.
SIXTH BOROUGH
Native atmospheric renderer of historical NYC. Year slider, eight eras, Manhattan emerging from time. Rust and Bevy, offline by design. A time capsule you can walk through, not a web demo you can share.
LUNATIC EYES
Real-time eye-tracking attention monitor. Webcam gaze estimation feeds an HMM classifier that detects when you drift from intentional focus. You tell it what to watch for. It only sees what you allow.
LACUNA
Cross-lingual divergence detection. An agentic pipeline queries the same concept across languages, then builds a delta-matrix measuring what gets lost, invented, or distorted in translation. Topological analysis maps the semantic surface between language pairs, exposing structural gaps no dictionary can catch.
PsychohistoryML
Exploratory ML analysis of 372 historical polities from the Seshat Global History Databank. Random Forest (CV AUC 0.66) finds the complexity-duration relationship reverses by era.
View Project →McCarthyGPT
Reverse-engineered Cormac McCarthy's prose style. 81% monosyllables create the "drumbeat" rhythm. 4.8M parameter character-level GPT trained on Blood Meridian.
View Project →Beyond Translation
Sentence embeddings reveal translator fingerprints across 5 English translations of Nietzsche. Hollingdale sits at the semantic centroid; Zimmern drifts furthest.
View Project →Audio Style Classifier
89.5% accuracy on 954 Touhou tracks. Handcrafted audio features beat CLAP/MERT by 19-24%.
View Project →Best way to reach me: amadeuswoo@proton.me