Hello,
I’m Marcus
I’m a senior at Carnegie Mellon University studying Artificial Intelligence. I am a former AI/ML Software Development Engineer Intern at AWS, published ML researcher, and Head Teaching Assistant.
Projects
Actordentify
Chrome extension that identifies actors in TV shows
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AI/ML
Front and Backend
Computer Systems
Experience
Head Teaching Assistant
School of Computer Science, CMU
Pittsburgh, PA, August 2023 – Present
15-112 Fundamentals of Programming & Computer Science.
Software Development Engineer Intern, AI/ML
Amazon Web Services
San Francisco Bay Area, CA, May 2025 – August 2025
Bedrock Model Optimization Team. Heterogeneous disaggregated inference.
Software Engineering Intern
Höganäs Borgestad
Gävle, Sweden, June 2024 – August 2024
Internal project management software.
Undergraduate Researcher
Language Technologies Institute, CMU
Remote, May 2024 – August 2024
LLM-based metric for automated code reviews. Paper accepted to NAACL.
Research Software Developer Intern
CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Pittsburgh, PA, May 2023 – August 2023
Intelligent Tutoring System for community college. Paper accepted to AERA.
Publications
CRScore: Grounding Automated Evaluation of Code Review Comments in Code Claims and Smells
Atharva Naik, Marcus Alenius, Daniel Fried, Carolyn Rose
NAACL (2025)
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Community College Information Technology Education: Curriculum Mapping, a Learning Science Framework, and AI Learning Technologies
Bruce McLaren, Lauren Herckis, Leah Teffera, Lee Branstetter, Carolyn Rose, Majd Sakr, Matthew Kisow, Reis Reis, Michael Rinsem, Marcus Alenius, & Lex Miller
American Educational Research Association (2024)
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