About Me
applied mathematician turned machine learning educator
believer that anyone can learn anything
Timeline
2023-present - Alexis Cook AI Consulting LLC
- Write educational content for AI startups and tech companies. Here is a blog post I co-authored for Cohere.
2018-2023 - Google / Kaggle
- Managed Kaggle’s repository of 17 courses with 50k+ students each month.
- Designed and built 8 courses for Kaggle’s courses platform: Intro to Programming, Intermediate Machine Learning, Data Visualization, Intro to SQL, Advanced SQL, Intro to AI Ethics, Geospatial Analysis, Intro to Game AI and Reinforcement Learning.
- Created and led 30 Days of ML, the most popular online event in Kaggle’s history. Had 200k+ signups.
2017-2018 - Udacity
- Curriculum lead for Udacity Deep Reinforcement Learning Nanodegree program. The GitHub repository for the program has 4.6k+ stars.
- Built content in speech recognition, convolutional neural networks, and image captioning.
2014-2016 - Brown University
- PhD student in applied mathematics. Took lots of courses in probability theory. Left the program with a Master’s in computer science.
2012-2014 - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Master’s student in applied mathematics. Did research in mathematical biology, and published one paper.
Fun facts
- I was fluent in the Russian language in 2010. My favorite book by a Russian author is The Life of Arseniev, and my favorite quote from that novel is: “у тебя что, кроме твоей прекрасной души?”.
- I currently speak intermediate Spanish, y estoy enamorada de México.
- I dabble with drawing and painting, but I’m not very good (yet).
- I have been obsessed with books since I can remember. Some of my favorite writers are: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah), Lorrie Moore (Self-Help), and Mary Gaitskill (Bad Behavior). I especially love devastating + rhythmic literary fiction authored by women.
- I really, really like horror movies.