Alex Wallar is a PhD student in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT. His research focusses on optimizing vehicle distributions and fleet sizes for ride-sharing systems to maximize system performance. He is a recipient of the Lemelson Presidential Fellowship, the MIT Diversity Fellowship, and the Shell-MIT Energy Fellowship. He received his masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 2017 with a focus on applications of constrained optimization for mobility-on-demand systems. He received is bachelors degree in computer science from the University of St Andrews in 2015 with first class honours.