Alex Wilson

Alex Wilson

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Group Vice President, Engineering Lose It!
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  • Everyday Health
    Group Vice President, Engineering Lose It!
    Everyday Health
    Mar 2025 - Current (1 year 6 months)
  • Everyday Health
    Senior Director of Engineering, Lose It!
    Everyday Health
    May 2023 - Mar 2025 (1 year 11 months)
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    Engineering Manager
    Lose It
    Oct 2019 - May 2023 (3 years 8 months)
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    Senior Software Developer, Engineering Lead
    Lose It
    Jan 2019 - Oct 2019 (10 months)
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    Product Owner, Android - Software Engineer
    Lose It
    Jan 2018 - Oct 2019 (1 year 10 months)
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    Software Engineer
    Lose It
    Jun 2015 - Jan 2018 (2 years 8 months)
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    Software Engineering Intern
    ROC HCI
    Jun 2014 - May 2015 (1 year)
    Conducted research in human-computer interaction, crowd-powered systems, and large-scale data analysis as part of the University of Rochester’s ROC HCI research group.
  • Independent
    Mobile Application Developer
    Independent
    Sep 2013 - Jun 2015 (1 year 10 months)
    Built a native mobile application backed by cloud services that matched students with compatible workout partners using custom recommendation algorithms.
  • University of Rochester
    Spatial Reasoning Research Intern
    University of Rochester
    Apr 2013 - Jan 2014 (10 months)
    Researched and developed a spatial reasoning agent for the Epilog knowledge representation system, focusing on inference, natural language understanding, and commonsense reasoning.
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    Independent Consultant
    Osprey Productions Inc
    Jan 2013 - May 2015 (2 years 5 months)
    Designed and developed custom Java software that automated warehouse operations, order processing, and inventory management for a local business.
  • University of Rochester
    Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Programming and the Web
    University of Rochester
    Sep 2012 - Dec 2012 (4 months)
    Taught weekly programming labs and mentored undergraduate students in introductory computer science.
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  • University of Rochester
    Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc, Computer Science
    University of Rochester
    Jan 2011 - Jan 2015 (4 years 1 month)
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    iPlant Empathic Health Feedback System and Exercise Motivator
    Jun 2014 - Current (12 years 3 months)
    Using vision face tracking software and an attached microcomputer, iPlant can track an individuals facial expression, heart rate and and exercise level. These metrics are mapped to various physical states of the robotic iPlant as well as a monitor to provide visual feedback to the user. When individuals see their own health state embodied in the iPlant, they may be motivated to adopt a healthier lifestyle in order to not only improve themselves, but also to help their iPlant. To help foster community participation multiple iPlants can be placed around large areas such as a college campus to create competition to observe which locations are exercising the most.
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    3D Specialist for EPILOG
    May 2013 - Current (13 years 4 months)
    Extending on Professor Lenhart Schubert's natural language processing project EPILOG, this addition allows the program to use 3D modeling to create models of the stories it reads, then run experiments on the model in order to answer queries about the story.
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    Supersonic Space Catapult
    Jan 2013 - Current (13 years 8 months)
    Construct a supersonic space catapult (SSSC), specifically, a table-top sized device that can electromagnetically accelerate a 1-2 gram payload to supersonic velocity. The method employed will be an actively controlled, linear induction motor
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    Best Real World Mobile Application
    Issued by ROC HCI
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    M.I.D.A.S. touch: magnetic interactive device for alternative sight through touch
    ACM Oct
    This paper describes the development of a working prototype of a novel free-space haptic human-computer interface called MIDAS Touch. MIDAS Touch works by applying physical forces to a user's finger through the production of a dynamic magnetic field. The magnetic field strength is adjusted in real-time based on the user's movement of his/her finger. A user's hand/finger motion in the real world is mapped to movement of a virtual finger in a virtual world through the use of a Leap Motion 3D tracking sensor. As a person's virtual finger collides with objects in the virtual world, the magnetic field strength is varied. In this demo, we present a case of MIDAS Touch coupled to a standard PC as a computer drawing viewer and drawing application f
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    Imagistic Modeling in Story Understanding
    BICA
    There is ample evidence that human understanding of ordinary language relies in part on a rich capacity for imagistic mental modeling. We argue that genuine language understanding in machines will similarly require an imagistic modeling capacity enabling fast construction of instances of prototypical physical situations and events, whose participants are drawn from a wide variety of entity types, including animate agents. By allowing fast evaluation of predicates such as ‘can-see’, ‘under’, and ‘inside’, these model instances support coherent text interpretation. Imagistic modeling is thus a crucial – and not very broadly appreciated – aspect of the long-standing knowledge acquisition bottleneck in AI. We will illustrate how the need for im
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