# Alex C.

> Software Engineer @ Meta | CS + Stats @ Harvard

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexc4

Hey there! I'm Alex, currently a Software Engineer at Meta. Previously, I've worked at Citadel, Amazon AWS, Lucid Software, and Cedar.

In the past, I also spent ~8 years researching and developing AI/ML methods to analyze medical images at Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center @ MGH, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute @ University of Utah, Research Science Institute @ MIT, and the Moran Eye Center @ University of Utah.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### AI/ML Researcher @ Massachusetts General Hospital
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | Boston, MA
- Research to develop AI/ML methods to predict disease from various modalities of imaging and health care data using PyTorch and OpenCV
- Published work American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, presented at at the Annual RSNA Conference

### Software Engineer @ Citadel
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
Post Trade Engineering

### Bessemer Venture Fellow @ Bessemer Venture Partners
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
- Interned as a Software Engineer at a health care tech startup from February 2023 - May 2023 as a part of the fellowship

### President @ Datamatch
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Lead @ Datamatch
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer @ Cedar
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area
ML / Data Engineering Team

### Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
AWS Lambda Team

### Associate Software Engineer @ Lucid
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Data Engineering Team

### Software Engineer Intern @ Lucid
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Software Engineer @ Lucid
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Research Intern @ John A. Moran Eye Center
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Greater Salt Lake City Area
- Developed 2 machine learning methods to analyze blood vessels in retinal images for abnormal growth from multiple diseases using Java, C/C++
- Published work in Molecular Journal and presented at ARVO Annual Conference, International Science and Engineering Fair, and National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium

### Research Scholar @ Research Science Institute (RSI)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Researched at the Boston Eye Care Center in computer science and ophthalmology and worked closely with Harvard and MIT professors
- Developed algorithm to help detect diabetic complications outside of the eye through images of the eye using MATLAB

### Research Intern @ Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater Salt Lake City Area
- Developed algorithm to analyze retinal fundus images for diabetic retinopathy using C/C++ and OpenCV with artificial intelligence 
- Presented at International Science and Engineering Fair (3rd place in category) and National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Statistics
Harvard University

### High School Diploma
Hillcrest High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexandervcheng
- Website: https://avcheng.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-04-05