maxine wu

(she/her)



Hi y'all, I'm Maxine! I'm a fourth year computer science undergraduate at UCLA. I'm interested in building intelligent robots that can perceive and interact with the world. Currently, I work on multimodal learning and embodied AI. Additionally, I'm passionate about equitable and accessible CS/AI education, and I like to make music.

Previously, I...
  • Interned at Doordash on New Verticals Growth, working on personalization with LLMs
  • Interned at Anduril on the Air Defense team
  • Served as Co-President of ACM AI, UCLA's largest undergrad AI community
  • Engineered flight control software at ELFIN
Say hi at maxinewu [at] g [dot] ucla [dot] edu

some favs <3

  • movies: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Dune, Oppenheimer, Inside Out 2, Top Gun: Maverick, Thor: Ragnarok, La La Land, Whiplash
  • reads: The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin, Bone by Fae Myenne Ng, The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, Behind Rebel Lines by Seymour Reit
  • albums: Lover by Taylor Swift, emails i can't send by Sabrina Carpenter, Nicole by NIKI, Bewitched by Laufey, The Secret of Us by Gracie Abrams, MAYHEM by Lady Gaga, eternal sunshine deluxe by Ariana Grande, American Idiot by Green Day, Stick Season by Noah Kahan