Alex Ching

I am a PhD Student at the Unversity of Washington Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering advised by Dr. Shwetak Patel. My research interests include sensing, wearable technology, robotics, and applied machine learning. I focus on building full system designs and am well versed in the full engineering stack from building low level hardware to running studies, and architecting applied machine learning pipelines.

Prior to returning to grad school, I spent 10 years working as a full time engineer in industry, having worked at Meta Reality Labs, Microsoft, Magic Leap, Microsoft Research, and Valve. During my time as a student, I was fortunate to have had intern and student researcher positions at Ai2, Samsung Research America, Ball Aerospace, Cisco Systems, Intellectual Ventures Lab, and NASA Ames Research Center.

I hold a M.S. in Computer Science, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington.

Feel free to contact me regarding academic collaborations at atching [at] cs.washington.edu

I am actively seeking research internships for Summer 2027.