Alex Ott

Hey, 🌊

I'm an undergraduate compsci major working towards a PhD.

Over the summer, I'm researching automated database tuning via machine learning. The poster should be available soon.

Research

• August 9th: Using machine learning to automatically configure rocksdb memtables.
  • Poster
  • Paper (in progress)

Projects

• Open Assistant by LAION AI: a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so. Github Hugging Face Paper
• Tetris on an 8x32 LED matrix written in nostd rust. (Blog post coming soon). Github
• GrobBot: a hackathon winning chess bot. Includes strategies such as alpha-beta pruning, Quiescence Search, Iterative Deepending, and Transposition Tables. Github
• Emoji Twitter: a twitter clone, but you can only post emojis. Site Github
• A music player app (WIP)