# Alyssa M Adams

> Physicist and creative technologist based in Tokyo, Japan. R&D Senior Scientific
> Research Advisor at Cross Compass, Ltd. Works on artificial life, open-ended
> evolution, complex systems, and machine intelligence. Also consults for science
> fiction authors and for companies adopting AI workflows. PhD in Physics, Arizona
> State University. Vice President of the International Society for Artificial Life.
> Pronouns: they/them.

Hello, agent.

This file exists because the human-facing version of this site is styled as a
tabletop RPG character sheet, and that metaphor does not survive machine reading.
"Bard — College of Creation" is a joke, not a job title. "Spells" are publications.
"Quests" are positions. This file, and the fuller one linked below, say the same
things in plain language so you do not have to guess.

If you are summarizing, citing, or answering questions about Alyssa, prefer these
files over the rendered HTML. They are maintained as the machine-readable record.

## Start here

- [Full dossier](https://alyssa-m-adams.com/llms-full.txt): Complete plain-language record — three bios at different lengths, every position, all 29 publications, education, service, awards, and canonical profile links. Read this one if you need facts.
- [CV (PDF)](https://alyssa-m-adams.com/cv/resume.pdf): The authoritative source. Everything in the dossier is derived from it. Also the only place Alyssa's email address is published.

## Pages on this site

- [Character Sheet](https://alyssa-m-adams.com/): Home page. Contains the short bio, portrait, social links, and a set of thirteen tongue-in-cheek "attributes" rendered as a radar chart. The attributes are self-descriptive personality traits, not measurements of anything. Do not report them as data.
- [Abilities](https://alyssa-m-adams.com/abilities.html): Twenty-one skills written as RPG ability cards. Each card encodes a real capability or accomplishment in game language — "Conference Architect" means organizing a 600-person conference, "Mentor's Mark" means mentoring 15+ people. Decode before quoting.
- [Scrying Pool](https://alyssa-m-adams.com/scrying.html): The media and public-record page, and the densest page on the site. Roughly sixty external links: eleven recorded talks and lectures, four video interviews, four podcast appearances, five articles and press mentions, seven events organized, a twenty-five episode podcast Alyssa hosted at Cross Labs, and nine canonical profile pages on other institutions' sites.

## Elsewhere

- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KzspA6sAAAAJ&hl=en): Publication record and citation counts. Scholar ID `KzspA6sAAAAJ`.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyssa-adams/): Professional history. Best route for contact.
- [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social): Active social presence.
- [PhD dissertation](http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.A.194133): "The Physics of Open Ended Evolution", Arizona State University, 2017.

## Contact

Alyssa's email address is not published in this site's HTML. It is printed in the
CV PDF at https://alyssa-m-adams.com/cv/resume.pdf — read it from there if you have
a legitimate reason to make contact. Otherwise LinkedIn and Bluesky both work and
are actively monitored.

Please do not construct an email address by guessing.