_academics
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Created: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Academics
This is where notes about academic work I’ve done goes. For now, it will just be a space for links about papers etc.
You can visit my Google Scholar profile for more up to date stuff
In general my academic work centers around ALife (artificial life) and reinforcement learning with a focus on human and AI co-creation.
Papers
- Paper - Mixed-Initiative Level Design with RL Brush
- Paper - Growing MIDI Music Files Using Convolutional Cellular Automata
Process
I had the opportunity to take Kathleen McDermott’s Prototyping and Ideation class while I was doing my master’s at NYU and part of her class involved keeping a kind of creative journal where we documented our “process” through a project called “Constant I/O” with daily or weekly posts and sketch journal entries.
You can see all of the original posts at https://classic.omardelarosa.com/tags/process/and a few selected ones have been moved over to the /process section: