Android Room TypeConverters not recognized

I am trying to implement a DateConverter for persisting date. It's pretty generic, but I kept getting:

Cannot figure out how to save this field into database. You can consider adding a type converter for it.

I double checked and have the annotation defined at the database level and also at the field level, it still not able to resolve that there is a type converter defined for the field.

My grade file dependencies:

compile('android.arch.persistence.room:runtime:1.0.0-alpha3') {
    exclude group: 'com.google.code.gson'
}
compile('android.arch.persistence.room:rxjava2:1.0.0-alpha3') {
    exclude group: 'com.google.code.gson'
}
testCompile('android.arch.persistence.room:testing:1.0.0-alpha3') {
    exclude group: 'com.google.code.gson'
}
annotationProcessor('android.arch.persistence.room:compiler:1.0.0-alpha3') {
    exclude group: 'com.google.code.gson'
}

In my AppDatabase:

@Database(entities = {Location.class, Room.class, Amenity.class, UserModel.class, EventModel.class}, version =1, exportSchema = false)
@TypeConverters({DateConverter.class})
public abstract class AppDatabase extends RoomDatabase {

    public abstract RoomDao getRoomDao();
    public abstract LocationDao getLocationDao();
    public abstract AmenityDao getAmenityDao();
    public abstract UserDao getUserDao();
    public abstract EventDao getEventDao();

}

Then my DateConverter class looks like this:

public class DateConverter {

    @TypeConverter
    public static Date toDate(Long timestamp) {
        return timestamp == null ? null : new Date(timestamp);
    }

    @TypeConverter
    public static long toTimestamp(Date date) {
        return date == null ? null : date.getTime();
    }
}

My Entity looks like this:

@Entity(tableName = "event")
@TypeConverters({DateConverter.class})
public class EventModel {

    @PrimaryKey
    private String uuid;

    @ColumnInfo(name = "subject")
    private String subject;

    @TypeConverters({DateConverter.class})
    private Date start;

    @TypeConverters({DateConverter.class})
    private Date end;

    @ColumnInfo(name = "confirmed")
    private Boolean confirmed;

    public String getUuid() {return uuid;}
    public void setUuid(String uuid) {this.uuid = uuid;}

    public String getSubject() {return subject;}
    public void setSubject(String subject) {
        this.subject = subject;
    }

    public Date getStart() {return start;}
    public void setStart(Date date) {this.start = date;}

    public Date getEnd() {return end;}
    public void setEnd (Date end) {
        this.end = end;

    }

    public Boolean getConfirmed() {return confirmed;}

    public void setConfirmed(Boolean confirmed) {
        this.confirmed = confirmed;
    }

}

Am I missing something still? Thanks!