Alex Reyes Aranda

Undergraduate Researcher at USC

Los Angeles, California, United States

About

Experience

  • R&D Mathematics and Computer Science at Sandia National Laboratories
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

    Projects in AI for National Security

  • USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science (Los Angeles, CA · On-site)
    • Daben Liu Research Fellow (Center for AI in Society)
      Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

      • Advised by Professor Vatsal Sharan • Supported by the Center for Undergraduate Research in Viterbi Engineering

    • Research Assistant (CS Theory Group)
      May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

      • Scaling laws & optimization • Phenomenological deep learning

  • UC Irvine (1 yr 9 mos)
    • Research Contractor (Digital Learning Lab)
      Jan 2025 - Jun 2025 · 6 mos

      • Variational auto-encoders • Synthetic data generation

    • Research Assistant (Digital Learning Lab)
      Oct 2023 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

      • Computer Science + Education, programmed autograding software • Advised by Professor Mark Warschauer • Collaborated with University of Chicago, CANON Lab • Supported by the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates

  • Code Next at Google
    Aug 2022 - Jul 2023 · 1 yr

    • AI, ML, and algorithm basics • Foundational software engineering practices • Collaborative development and team management

  • UC Berkeley AI4ALL Student at AI4ALL
    Jun 2022 - Jul 2022 · 2 mos