About

Last updated: 12 Oct 2025.

I am a first year PhD student at the Statistics and Data Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. I am in the process of switching to a joint PhD with the Program in Neural Computation. Previously, I was a postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) researcher at the Machine Learning Core at the National Institute of Mental Health, directed by Dr. Francisco Pereira. I worked on experimental machine learning applications in psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience and statistical research on functional mixed models.

Links

• ORCID
• awqx on GitHub
• alxin.me on Bluesky (not very active)

Why does the name look like that?

I sometimes stylize my name as aL to avoid sans serif ambiguities with “AI”. This has been a recurring problem for an aL adjaced to machine learning.

Why does the site look like that?

I am currently reorganizing things. I used to host my CV on Substack, for example, but I am mmoving my blog/newsletter attempts to Buttondown. I am also planning to change my GitHub domain name (with delays due to providing this URL to PhD applications).

The site is mashed together from the Jekyll theme Minimal Mistakes and its fork Academic Pages, which may cause strange inconsistencies and layout failures. I use the font Atkinson Hyperlegible for readability.

Background

I graduated from Harvard in 2023 (Statistics major and Linguistics minor). I wrote a senior thesis with the Murray lab at Harvard Medical School on a genome-wide association study of M. tuberculosis. At Harvard, I was Program Director for Harvard Effective Altruism (HEA), President of Harvard Breakers, and Design Chair on the Adams House Committee.

I previously worked as a teaching fellow (Harvard’s term for a teaching assistant) for CS 50, STAT 110, STAT 111, and STAT 210. I do some commissioned graphic design work, such as logo design, including the course logo for STAT 210.

Contact

I have an (optionally) anonymous feedback form here, which will reach me through email.

You can find me at Bluesky @alxin.me. I own the URL alxove.com for blogging, but I am currently working on migrating from Substack to Buttondown.

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