Chris Ried

Data Scientist, Tinkerer, Artist (generatecoll)

I love to create things, learning and solving problems.

My recent ventures are A-Stock and my own newsletter Generative / Creative Coding Newsletter.

Most recently I've been working with a couple renewable materials. Specifically working on working out a method to generate PLA.

Interests

My interests have spanned many different subjects. From nature, art, history, and technology. And sometimes that seems to be a bit overwhelming from my brain. Yet it is in the intersections of this where the most interesting parts of my life are found.

Machine Learning / Deep Learning - What has made me fall in love is the bridge and representation of the world that can be learned by representation. Kaggle, Hugging Face
Emerging Technology - Though a broad field, I'm interested in the bleeding edge of technology. Tezos, Foundation, Objkt
Generative Art - Generative art to me is just an art form that I can understand and find a connection as it embodies the beauty of nature through it's seemingly random yet ordered patterns. It works for me as a metaphor of the world around and how sometimes unordered yet ordered it can be.

Exploration of Natural and Procedural Phenomena

Travelling - I think travelling is an important way to gain perspective. The world is a giant place and there are many ways to find the harshest and yet most beautiful things throughout the world. You can find some of the various travels throughout the years on Medium.

Education

2024 - University of Colorado Boulder - M.S. in Data Science
2010 - Rochester Institute of Technology - B.S. in Biotechnology / Applied Mathematics

Side Projects

Szent.app - a simple social landing page like linktree but built serverless w/ Cloudflare R2 and Workers.
Generative Pixels - Upload an image create a palette of colors for Procreate
Winter 2024 - An SVG generator that creates snowflakes

Presentations

I have worked on many projects. Some of them are listed below:

Examples of Data Visualizations: Genuary, Sphere Packings and Wind Turbines in Observable link
C. D. Ried*, Arthur Totten*, Andrew Varble*, Matthew Woodruff*, M. C. Ferran, "The Role of the VSV-M Protein on Regulation of NF-B." 35th Annual Fall Scientific Paper Session, Rochester Academy of Science, Pittsford, NY, November 2008 (Talk).
C. D. Ried, M. C. Ferran, "Role of the VSV M Protein on NF-kB Regulation in L929 Cells." 17th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, RIT, Rochester, NY, August 2008 (Talk).
C. D. Ried, M. C. Ferran, "The Effect of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Matrix Protein on NF-kB." Research Scholars Program Requirement, RIT, Rochester, NY, January 2009 (Talk).

A conclusive mind cannot be a creative mind. -Amit Kalantri

Publications

The vesicular stomatitis virus matrix protein inhibits NF-κB activation in mouse L929 cells.

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