matt wang (he/him)

courses I've taught (or will teach) at UW

Every course that I have taught at UW has had some sort of public-facing course website, though access to course materials otherwise varies. Please ask if you have questions!

You may also be interested in the CSE time and teaching schedules .

past lives

I received two B.S.'s and an M.S. from the University of California, Los Angeles. I grew up in Toronto, Canada, and still maintain my love of winter sports and poutine.

As a student, I was most proud of my work in student organizations. I am especially grateful to have worn many hats at ACM at UCLA and ACM Teach LA, and created some of my fondest memories with BEAM. I was also (briefly) a research assistant at the Northeastern Probabilistic Programming Lab (and PRL) working primarily on RSDD; the inaugural outreach co-chair for NeurIPS 2022; a software engineering intern at CZI, Facebook, Adobe, AWS, Booz Allen, and AudioNotch; and, one of the first employees of the UCLA Makerspace (on the Hill).

Prior to becoming teaching faculty, I've been doing some sort of teaching for about a decade. As a graduate student, I TA'd three quarters of CS 131: Programming Languages at UCLA, with a focus on building out course infrastructure and novel content. As an undergraduate, I taught hundreds of undergrads web development through ACM at UCLA, QWER Hacks, and the Engineering Transfer Center; middle and high school classes through ACM Teach LA and BEAM at UCLA; and, various workshops at the UCLA Makerspace. I also dedicated a huge chunk of my life to student advocacy & institution-building. In high school, I taught various formal and informal classes, workshops, camps, and afterschool programs in computer science, robotics, debate, and math.

I was previously a maintainer of Stylelint, but have been inactive since 2024 (and offically left in 2026). They do some great work, and I still continue to cheer them on; working on Stylelint was one of my fondest memories in open-source!

When I was younger, I had the (admittedly strange) dream job of working for the CFPB or FTC. I'm still interested in a handful of areas surrounding education and health policy, public economics, consumer protection, and antitrust — though I'm far from an expert!

some favourites & recommendations

recently:

• Algospeak (Adam Aleksic book),
• Emotional Junglist (Nia Archives album)

albums:

• After Laughter,
• Anak Ko,
• Bewitched,
• Brat,
• Charm,
• Donuts,
• Emotion ,
• Faces,
• Heard It In A Past Life ,
• Helplessness Blues ,
• I Love My Computer ,
• Imaginal Disk,
• Louie,
• Madvillainy,
• NOT TiGHT,
• Random Access Memories ,
• SATURATION II,
• Since I Left You,
• Sometimes I Might Be Introvert ,
• The Melodic Blue,
• To Pimp A Butterfly ,
• Tradition,
• When a Thought Grows Wings ,
• Without Warning ,
• Women In Music Pt. III

books:

• Algorithms of Oppression ,
• Because Internet,
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century ,
• Crying in H Mart,
• Death At An Early Age ,
• Design Justice,
• Exhalation: Stories ,
• Homegoing,
• Never Let Me Go ,
• Pachinko,
• Paradox ,
• Piranesi,
• Poor Economics,
• Stories of Your Life and Others ,
• The Food Lab,
• The Memory Police,
• The Remains of the Day ,
• The Three-Body Problem ,
• Weapons of Math Destruction ,
• What If?

food:

carbonara, gochujang pasta, Japanese curry, katsu, sushi, tiramisu, udon

games:

• Antichamber,
• Baba Is You,
• Bloons TD 4 ,
• Borderlands 2,
• Civilization V,
• Chants of Sennaar,
• CS:GO ,
• Doom (2016),
• Hades,
• Inscryption,
• Minecraft,
• Mini Metro,
• Outer Wilds,
• Pokémon Platinum ,
• Portal 2,
• Return of the Obra Dinn ,
• Skyrim,
• Stardew Valley,
• Super Hexagon,
• The Stanley Parable

movies:

• Arrival,
• Everything Everywhere All at Once ,
• Ex Machina,
• Lady Bird,
• Moonlight,
• My Neighbor Totoro ,
• Princess Mononoke,
• Strange Brew,
• The Grand Budapest Hotel ,
• WALL-E

music videos:

• Back on 74,
• Break,
• Call Me Maybe,
• Cash In Cash Out,
• D.A.N.C.E.,
• Girl Like Me,
• Infohazard,
• Needing/Getting,
• Since I Left You,
• Virtual Insanity

clickable potpourri:

• City Roads,
• Creating a QR Code Step By Step ,
• Exponentially Better Rotations ,
• Generating Sudokus For Fun and No Profit ,
• Peritext,
• Sound,
• The Evolution of Trust,
• The Largest Vocabulary In Hip Hop ,
• The Password Game,
• Visualizing Algorithms