Alex Wu
I creatively build ML systems to solve unorthodox problems. Recent NYU CS + Data Science grad.
Simply put, I learn by building, parallelizing my projects to answer questions like a GPU. Looking for a bona fide team where I can apply my momentum.
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Education
New York University
2020–2025B.A. Computer Science + Data Science, Minor in Mathematics
Experience
Exiger LLC
Summer 2025Data Science Intern, NYC
Shipped NLP pipeline to production: ticket classification, priority scoring, time series forecasting with Prophet.
Horizon BCBS NJ
Summer 2023IT Intern, Newark
Insurance catalog frontend (Salesforce/SQL), microservice monitoring, HIPAA compliance.
Research
Audio-Based Depression Detection
NYU, Summer 2024w/ Pascal Wallasch
Built audio/linguistic feature pipeline for clinical depression research on 1,000+ hours of patient audio. Key finding: speech patterns vary too much across individuals for population-level detection. An informative null result that shaped the research direction.
PsychohistoryML
2024–PresentML analysis of 372 historical polities. Random Forest (AUC 0.67) finding complexity-duration relationship reverses by era.
View Project →Projects
Audio Style Classifier
Audio ML89.5% accuracy on 954 tracks. Handcrafted features beat CLAP/MERT by 19-24%.
Suzerain
CLI ToolAnalyze your Claude Code logs locally. See where you trust AI, where you don't. Bash acceptance is the signal.
View →Beyond Translation
NLPSentence embeddings reveal translator fingerprints across 5 Nietzsche translations.
View →Music Transcription
Deep LearningPiano audio to MIDI. CRNN with dual-output heads for onset/duration detection.
Beyond Code
- History: Peter Turchin's cliodynamics. Building ML pipelines around public datasets.
- Music: Japanese indie + DnB. Why I got into audio ML.
- Reading: Mentally somewhere in the 19th century.
- Linguistics: How language shapes thought. Feeds into my NLP work.
- Location: NYC/NJ → SF for the right opportunity
If you're building something interesting, I'd like to hear about it.