PhD Student Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington Email: adalex@cs.washington.edu Curriculum Vitae

About Me

I’m a first year PhD student in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington advised by Gilbert Bernstein in the PLSE group. Previously, I earned an MS in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara advised by Jonathan Balkind. Even earlier, I earned a BS in Mathematics of Computation at UCLA and then spent 4 years as a software engineer at Zillow primarily working on large-scale distributed systems for low-latency location data processing in Apache Spark and Apache Kafka before deciding to pursue a career in computer science research.

My research interests broadly lie in the intersection of computer architecture and programming languages. I have worked on projects which involve applying program synthesis to hardware design (to appear at ASPLOS ‘25), and on a compiler which targets matrix multiplication accelerators from general-purpose code as the topic of my MS thesis. I presented my progress on this work at PLArch ‘23 in Orlando.

In my free time, I used to play a lot of rugby including a 4-year stint for the UCLA men’s team. I now stick to touch rugby and play an occasional round of golf.