maxine wu

(she/her)



Hi y'all, I'm Maxine! I'm a third year computer science undergraduate at UCLA, intended minor in Musicology. My interests are in building software that informs physical systems. I'm passionate about equitable and accessible CS/AI education, and I like to hike and make music in my free time.

Currently, I'm...
  • Engineering software at ELFIN on their controls flight software
  • Researching applications of vision-language models to embodied agents
  • Serving as Co-President of ACM AI, UCLA's largest AI-centered community
Recently, I...
  • Interned at Anduril this past summer on their Air Defense team
  • Worked on controllable and memory-augmented video-generation
Always down to chat — say hi at maxinewu [at] g [dot] ucla [dot] edu

some favs <3

  • movies: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Dune & Dune: Part Two, Oppenheimer, Inside Out 2, Top Gun: Maverick, Thor: Ragnarok, La La Land, Whiplash
  • reads: Bone by Fae Myenne Ng, The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, Behind Rebel Lines by Seymour Reit, Atomic Habits by James Clear
  • albums: Lover (Taylor Swift), emails i can't send (Sabrina Carpenter), Nicole (NIKI), Bewitched (Laufey), The Secret of Us (Gracie Abrams), American Idiot (Green Day), Stick Season (Noah Kahan)