Alek Westover

Right now I'm working on AI safety at ARC.
I recently graduated from MIT where I studied Math, CS and AI.
I've done research in model organisms (trying to find empirical evidence for theoretical concerns about AI Misalignment),
and pure TCS (data structures, online algorithms, and algorithmic graph theory).

Alek's CV
Email: alek dot westover at gmail dot com

Blog

I occasionally put some unpolished thoughts on my blog here. My posts fall into the following categories:

1. Technical notes (Math/TCS/ML/AI Safety).
2. Life Optimization.
3. Philosophy.

Publications

• "Listing 6-Cycles in Sparse Graphs" (ITCS'25)
  Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Alek Westover

• "The Diamond Test: A Novel Direct Sum / Affinity Test" (ITCS'25)
  Alek Westover, Edward Yu, Kai Zheng

• "When to Give Up on a Parallel Implementation" (ITCS'25)
  Nathan S. Sheffield, Alek Westover

• "Interrater Reliability Estimation via Maximum Likelihood for Gwet’s Chance Agreement Model." (OJoS'24)
  Westover, Alek M., Tara M. Westover, and M. Brandon Westover.

• “A Nearly Quadratic Improvement for Memory Reallocation” (SPAA'24) (Slides)
  Martin Farach-Colton, William Kuszmaul, Nathan Sheffield, and Alek Westover

• “Scheduling Jobs with Work-Inefficient Parallel Solutions” (SPAA'24) (Slides)
  William Kuszmaul and Alek Westover

• “Complexity of Multiple-Hamiltonicity in Graphs of Bounded Degree”
  Brian Liu, Nathan S. Sheffield, Alek Westover

• “On the Relationship Between Several Variants of the Linear Hashing Conjecture”
  Alek Westover

• “The Variable-Processor Cup Game” (ITCS'21) (Slides)
  William Kuszmaul and Alek Westover

• “Cache-Efficient Parallel-Partition Algorithms using Exclusive-Read-and-Write Memory” (SPAA'20) (Animation) (GitHub)
  William Kuszmaul and Alek Westover