Allen Jue

Allen Jue

Software Engineer at Google · MS/BS Computer Science & Mathematics, UT Austin

I work on storage infrastructure at Google. Before that I spent five years at UT Austin getting a BS in CS & Math and an MS in CS. I've also taught, was a TA for programming languages, concurrency, and discrete math. Currently I tutor high school students and college students data structures and algorithms for interview prep.

I'm interested in sociology, computer systems, LLMs, education, theory, and math. I play a lot of bullet chess (97th percentile on Lichess and Chess.com) and read when I can. Feel free to reach out!

© 2026 Allen Jue

Projects

Graduate coursework and side projects.

Graduate

CS391R — Evolving Robot

Evolutionary robotics: evolved controllers for simulated locomotion.

Code Report Spotlight

CS395T — Poisoning Learned Indexes

Adversarial poisoning attacks on learned index structures.

Code Slides Final

CS395T — LLM Auto-Highlighting Reader

HCI study: topic highlighting and grouping for faster document review.

Report Slides

CS380S — Wasm2c Memory Traces

Found redundant memory checks in Wasm2c-transpiled code via trace analysis.

Code Report Slides

CS389R — TEA Cipher Proof

Formal verification of the Tiny Encryption Algorithm in ACL2. Contributed ideas to the open source ACL2 project.

Code Report tea.lisp

Undergraduate

CS378 — Concurrency: Threadpool

C/C++ thread pool with synchronization and concurrent programming patterns.

Code Report

Paper Presentations

Slides from coursework where I presented published research.

HALP

Google's learned cache eviction policy for the YouTube CDN (NSDI 2023).

Paper Slides

Alice in Warningland

Large-scale field study of browser security warning effectiveness (USENIX Security 2013).

Paper Slides

Macnamara — Growth Mindset

Meta-analysis of growth mindset interventions (Psychological Bulletin, 2022).

Paper Slides

Reading

Books I've read or am reading.

2025

  1. The Charisma Machine — Morgan G. Ames (on hold)
  2. Beyond the Science of Reading — Natalie Wexler (on hold)
  3. Bird by Bird — Anne Lamott
  4. Dracula — Bram Stoker
  5. Making It Stick — Peter C. Brown
  6. Language at the Speed of Sight — Mark Seidenberg (in progress)
  7. Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë (on hold)
  8. Original Sins — Eve L. Ewing
  9. Circe — Madeline Miller
  10. A Little Book on Vodka — Malcolm Croft

2024

  1. The Castle — Franz Kafka
  2. No Longer Human — Osamu Dazai
  3. A Personal Matter — Kenzaburō Ōe
  4. The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway
  5. Tuesdays with Morrie — Mitch Albom
  6. Dumbing Us Down — John Taylor Gatto
  7. Math Without Numbers — Milo Beckman
  8. The Committed — Viet Thanh Nguyen
  9. Stein on Writing — Sol Stein
  10. The Architecture of Happiness — Alain de Botton
  11. On Love — Alain de Botton
  12. Relationships — Alain de Botton
  13. Candide — Voltaire
  14. Black Skin, White Masks — Frantz Fanon
  15. Escape from Evil — Ernest Becker
  16. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego — Sigmund Freud
  17. The Woman Destroyed — Simone de Beauvoir
  18. All Men Are Mortal — Simone de Beauvoir
  19. How to Think More About Sex — Alain de Botton
  20. A Week at the Airport — Alain de Botton
  21. The Wisdom of Life — Arthur Schopenhauer
  22. How to Find the Right Words — Alain de Botton
  23. My Secret Garden — Nancy Friday
  24. Modern Man in Search of a Soul — Carl Jung
  25. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead — Tom Stoppard
  26. Straw Dogs — John Gray
  27. The Cap — Roman Frister
  28. The Man with a Shattered World — A. R. Luria
  29. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat — Oliver Sacks
  30. The Mind of a Mnemonist — A. R. Luria
  31. The Setting Sun — Osamu Dazai
  32. How to Be Perfect — Michael Schur
  33. The Design of Everyday Things — Don Norman
  34. Caste — Isabel Wilkerson
  35. Feline Philosophy — John Gray
  36. Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? — Lorrie Moore
  37. On Women — Susan Sontag
  38. Little Rot — Akwaeke Emezi
  39. Klara and the Sun — Kazuo Ishiguro
  40. Ghost in the Wires — Kevin Mitnick
  41. Angela's Ashes — Frank McCourt
  42. The Swimmer — John Cheever
  43. Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl

2023

  1. Hello World — Hannah Fry
  2. The Weirdest People in the World — Joseph Henrich
  3. The Stranger — Albert Camus

2022

  1. The Mythical Man-Month — Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
  2. The Master Algorithm — Pedro Domingos

Writings

Research preprints and other writing.

Research

Other