Alan Chen
Undergraduate Researcher
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Chen is an undergraduate researcher and founder based in Austin, TX, with 11 years of hands-on experience building AI systems that fuse spatial intelligence with LLM, RL, and VLA reasoning. He combines academic research at UT Austin and Carnegie Mellon—where his robotics and manufacturing work led to multiple conference acceptances—with startup product instincts from an AI-assisted design and behavior prediction stealth company. Currently interoperating between research (LLMs, diffusion, post-training) and applied engineering roles including an Arm MLOps internship, he excels at moving models from theory to scalable tooling. Alan’s background spans autonomous vehicle eco-driving RL, robot planning, and teaching CS to youth, giving him a rare mix of rigorous modeling and pragmatic communication. Known for curiosity about games like Go and for focusing on spatial inductive biases, he brings both mathematical depth (Turing Scholar in CS and Applied Math) and founder-level product sense to AI research and deployment.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science (Turing Scholar) and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science (Turing Scholar) and Applied Mathematics at The University of Texas at AustinWestlake High School
Github Skills (2)
network-analysis5
graph-analysis5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sjtufeng/Spatialist_ReachAnalysis
Nov 2018 - Oct 2019
To analyze metric reach, directional reach, intersection reach, and more.
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes in 10 months
graph-analysisreachanalysisstreet-connectivityspace-syntax
sjtufeng/hello-world
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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