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Alan Song

Alan Song

CS student at UCLA | Software engineering intern

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Wellesley, Massachusetts
Joined May 2026
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Summary

Applied research in systems and machine learning: contributed to a PRIMES/MIT project (SCARLET) that developed RL-based methods and infrastructure for serverless container autoscaling, demonstrating capability in building experimental systems and applying reinforcement learning to real problems. mit+2
Active student researcher across multiple labs: holds student researcher roles at UCLA's VECTR Lab and the Multisensory Processing Lab and has participated in external research programs (MIT PRIMES, Caltech SURF listings), indicating sustained engagement with academic research during undergraduate studies. github+1
Bridges academics and practical engineering: combines academic research with industry experience, including software engineering internships (Teradyne, incoming Amazon internship) and a role on a founding engineering team, showing experience transitioning research into applied engineering contexts.
Strong early STEM achievements and extracurricular leadership: notable high-school accomplishments include selection to the USNCO Study Camp and recognition as a Regeneron STS Scholar, alongside teaching experience and competitive chess—reflecting both academic excellence and community/leadership involvement. pwestpathfinder+2

Work

Education

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Writing

SCARLET: Serverless Container Autoscaling with Reinforcement Learning

January 1, 2023

Paper describing SCARLET, a design and experimental study that applies reinforcement learning methods to serverless container autoscaling (includes infrastructure, experimental setup, and Deep Q-Learning results).

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Hobbies

Competitive chess (noted as National Chess Master).

Chemistry olympiads and lab competitions (participated in USNCO Study Camp). pwestpathfinder