Hello! I'm Erika Alvarez.

Human-X Interactions Lab

Researcher

2024 - Present

Currently developing a web application that helps local government units understand aggressive driver behavior based on surrounding environment.

Implements models such as YOLOv8 for identifying vehicles and the respective aggressive driving behavior, and DetectronV2 for detecting and classifying traffic signs.

ArtBloc

Creatives Committee

2024

Designed publicity materials for the newly established “ArtBloc” event during the University Vision-Mission Week.

Demonstrated teamwork with committee members and project heads through developing and implementing marketing strategies to increase event exposure.

Teatro Lasalyano Laguna

Stage Manager and Head Editor for Animulat

2022

Organized rehearsal schedules and meeting notes, ensuring proper documentation, complete attendance, and smoother coordination with the team.

Collaborated with various teams (directors, actors, crew) to align the artistic vision and production goals, ensuring clear communication.

Assisted in leading rehearsals to supervise production logistics, build team rapport, and support the cast and crew.

INDIE

AVP for Creatives

2023 - 2024

Played a leadership role in decision-making for publicity approaches.

Set creative standards and reviewed design outputs to maintain brand consistency.

Robotics Club

(Caritas Don Bosco School)

2018 - 2019

Gained hands-on experience in designing, building, and programming Arduino projects for various purposes.

Strengthened problem-solving skills in troubleshooting hardware and software issues to improve the performance of the outputs.

Attendance Logging System

Developed an attendance tracking system to record employee time-in and time-out, with a backend API and a React frontend.

Designed and prototyped user interfaces using Figma and applied UI/UX principles to improve user experience, further understand inguser-centered design workflows.

Figma Illustrations

AWS Event Ticketing System

Helped develop a school event registration web application for Acacia Waldorf School using React and Vite as a front-end developer.

Figma Illustrations

Lab Reservation System

Developed a mockup of a lab reservation system using React, NodeJS, and Docker as a front-end developer.

CCSU Books

A mock web application protoype that aims to improve the ease of access to OCCS’s and CCSU CARES’s mental wellness counseling services.

BrakePoint

A decision support system that utilizes computer vision techniques to analyze aggressive driver behavior patterns and its correlation with the surrounding environment.

Tweet Sentiment Classifier

Developed a machine-learning system trained on a tweet sentiment dataset.

Utilized a spaCy tokenizer and TF-IDF vectorizer for feature extraction for models such as Decision Tree and Support Vector Machine.

Predictive Modeling on Socioeconomic Data Using Machine Learning

Utilized various machine-learning frameworks such as PyTorch and scikit to perform extensive exploratory data analysis on a labor force survey dataset.