ALIVIA BLOUNT

Music Journalist

This is my CV - In Progress

Current Research Area

I am currently building a personalized learning model to help improve student outcomes in online learning spaces. I am tracking skill acquisition to help students understand what they are learning and how they can apply those skills to the real world, typically in a job setting.

Read about the work and check out the repo - here


Technical Talks + Workshops + Competitions


What Who Where Year
Pitch Comptition Winner Entre Black Founders - Bloc New York 2020
NYU Social Venture Competition Team Winner - $50K Bloc Manhattan, NY 2020
Epitheliod Sarcoma Technical Report Co-Author Research To The People Stanford Medical Center 2020
Algorithmic Fairness + Bias in AI (8-hour) workshop Agile Testing Conference Chicago IL 2019
Reinforcement Learning to Understand Society, Invited Speaker Agile Testing Conference Chicago IL 2019
Imposter Syndrom Presentation - Black Woman In the Valley Microsoft Corporation Redmonda, WA 2019
Optimizing Emergency Medical Resident Schedules, UCSF - Collaboration Salesforce San Francisco, CA 2018
Optimizing Emergency Medical Resident Schedules, UCSF - Collaboration Intuit Mountain View, CA 2018
Optimizing Emergency Medical Resident Schedules, UCSF - Collaboration SigOpt San Francisco, CA 2018
Optimizing Emergency Medical Resident Schedules, UCSF - Collaboration Insight Data Science San Francisco, CA 2018
Foo Camp Guest O’Reilly Sebastopol, CA 2018
Dataflow + GCP Cloud Tools New York Times Manhattan, NY 2018
Shorter Experience [AR/VR] Capitol Music Group Los Angeles, CA 2018
Contextual Music Search - Audio Processing SXSW Austin, Texas 2018
Data Science @ Facebook, Invited Speaker Facebook Developer Circles Hackathon Tunis, Tunisia 2018
Developer Programs, Content Management System Product Overview Facebook Menlo Park, CA 2018
Developer Circles Course Lead, Chatbots Facebook Developer Circles Oakland, Ca 2017
Hear + Now Tech Talk - Invited Speacker Square San Francisco, CA 2017
Software Engineering Internships - Big Data Kapor Center Oakland, CA 2017
AI Expert Session - Panelist Institute For The Future (IFTF) Menlo Park, CA 2017
Disrupting Learning Models University of California, Davis + Institute For The Future (IFTF) Menlo Park, CA 2016
Future Forum ACT Foundation + Institute For The Future (IFTF) Menlo Park, CA 2016
Does College Matter? - Podcast SF Reserve Bank San Francisco, CA 2016
Learning Economy - Panelist Institute For The Future (IFTF) Menlo Park, CA 2015
New Models of Learning - Panelist Institute For The Future (IFTF) Menlo Park, CA 2015
Habitot - AR+VR Hackathon - Winner USC Annenberg School of Journalism Los Angeles, CA 2015

Grants + Awards


Company Sub-Domain Project Year
ICML Diversity Fellowship Award Un-workshop Proposal 2020
Microsoft Azure Foundations Machine Learning Scholarship 2020
Microsoft Tuition Scholarship Diversity 2019
Microsoft NeurIPS Conference Travel Grant Black in AI 2018
Facebook F8 - Conference Registration Tech Conference 2018
O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference Room Host 2017
Kapor Center Apps Without Code PreUni 2017
Facebook NeurIPS Conference Travel Grant Black In AI 2017
Google Women Techmakers Conference - Mountain View Women in Tech 2016
Adobe General Assembly Scholarship Web Development Bootcamp 2015
Yes We Code Dev Bootcamp Web Development Bootcamp 2014

Projects


Name Description Link
Admin Dashboard User Experience Redesign Customer Feedback Project Description
MSW - Year Long Scope For Workforce training platform $1 Millon project plan Scope
Multimedia user experience for neurodiverse students Personalized learning platform working through 1619 curriculum and engagement activities Link
Data Science Internship Project Based Learning Platform Repo + Student Outcome
SXSW Capitol Music Hackathon Winner: Contextual Music Search Audio processing application dividing audio track into segments and filtering those segments. Devpost
Capitol360 - Capitol Music Group Hackathon AR/VR Shorter Experience Created immersive experience using Wayne Shorter exclusive assets to complement audio passive listening experience. Devpost
Habitot USC Annenberg School of Journalism, Women’s Hackathon Designed an augmented reality system that would allow the user to experience the devastating effects of climate change in a specific habitat. Ex: Experience life as a polar bear standing on a melting iceberg floating away from family. Video Presentation Write-up
Insight Data Science Collaboration with UCSF to optimize emergency medicine resident schedules Link
Datahub Data Governance NYT + GCP Explanation
IDEO Colab Fellowship Autonomous vehicle data sharing using blockchain ChainReaction
Content Management System FB - DevC Link
Sentify Emotionally intelligent music recommendation engine powered by facial recognition software Link
Pocket Board Financial portfolio stock analysis tool with a swipe selection user experience Link
Research To The People Epithelioid Sarcoma patient technical report co-author. Link

Work Experience


Company Role Team Year
Bloc Director Data Science + Innovation Data Science + Engineering 2020
Microsoft Program manager Commercial Sales and Marketing 2019
Facebook Technical Program Manager Developer Programs 2018
Universal Music Group Entrepreneur in Residence Data Products 2018

Internships


Company Role Type Year
New York Times Data Engineering Intern 2018
Acorns Data Science Intern 2018
Intuit Machine Learning Analytics Intern 2017
Intel Software Engineering Intern 2017
Childrens Hospital and Research Center Oakland (CHORI) Ames Lab Research Intern 2012
City of Berkeley Public Health Intern 2008

Fellowships


Company Sub-Domain Project Year
Insight Data Science Artificial Intelligence - Reinforcement Learning Emergency medicine schedule optimizer 2018
IDEO CoLab Blockchain Autonomous vehicle data marketplace 2018
Kapor Center I-lab PreUni StartUp 2017
UC Berkeley Law Center Access to Entrepreneurship Form and Fund Series 2017