MS Student Computer Science University of California, Santa Barbara Email: aalex at ucsb dot edu Curriculum Vitae

I’ll be applying to PhD programs in computer science this fall!

About Me

I’m an MS student at UC Santa Barbara advised by Jonathan Balkind, but this fall 2023, I have had the opportunity to join AMD Research as an intern in Boxborough, MA, where my work focuses on investigating the use of combinatorial optimization meta-heuristics in CPU microarchitectural design. Previously, I earned a BS in Mathematics of Computation at UCLA. I 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, and most recently, on a compiler which targets matrix multiplication accelerators from general-purpose code. 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, serve as an assistant coach for the UCSB rugby team, and play an occasional round of golf.