Alexander M. Pratt
Hello! I am Alexander “Alec” Pratt. Currently, I am a second year master’s student in the Department of Computer Science at Brown University. Prior to Brown University, I earned my undergraduate degrees from The Pennsylvania State University in the College of Engineering and College of Arts and Architecture.
Originally from the historic battlefield town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, I am a software engineer with interests in audio and signal processing. My current academic and research pursuits lay at the cross-section of computing and the arts. Areas of interest include using AI for audio mixing, mastering, and production, generative music using AI, and, effective co-design of hardware and software for AI applications on resource constrained devices.
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Recent Projects
Training Contrastive Learning models with image augmentations is critical to allow for downstream image classication to be augmentation-invariant. Dynamic augmentation scheduling for Contrastive Learning has not been researched significantly. In From DINO to DYNO, the use of a dynamic augmentation scheduler is investigated to determine whether c...
From walk-off homeruns to World Cup penalty shootouts, sports fanatics are particular about who calls the play-by-play for their favorite teams. Certain fans often enjoy their local or regional radio station announcers over national broadcast announcers, as they provide more specific analysis and have their own enjoyable characteristics in how t...
In an era driven by connection on social media, effective and captive communication is important to gain the attention of users who casually swipe through a feed. With turmoil and injustice in the world, the use of image generation technology can be used to create effective graphics and clips that can help further a social cause. The Art Generat...