With great pleasure we announce that Alexander Tong is one of the Starting Principal Investigators AI. He joined AITHYRA in September 2025.
Alexander Tong develops next-generation machine learning methods to model and engineer biological systems. His work focuses on creating generative AI that understands the fundamental geometry and dynamics of life, with applications in single-cell biology and therapeutic protein design.
Alexander Tong completed his PhD in Computer Science at Yale University, where his thesis, advised by Smita Krishnaswamy, established novel techniques for biomedical discovery using graph signal processing and optimal transport. As a postdoctoral researcher at Mila, he was mentored by Turing Award laureate Yoshua Bengio, pioneering the development of large-scale generative models—including diffusion and flow matching—to solve critical challenges in computational biology. He co-founded Dreamfold, a protein design company using generative AI.
Together, we will shape the future of AI-driven research - and unlock the next breakthroughs in life sciences!
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