Alexander Tong

Principal Researcher, Aithyra
Joined
September 2018

Names

Alexander Tong (Preferred)
, 
Alexander Y Tong

Emails

****@yale.edu (Confirmed)
, 
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
, 
****@mila.quebec (Confirmed)
, 
****@umontreal.ca (Confirmed)
, 
****@aithyra.at (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Principal Researcher
Aithyra (aithyra.at)
2025 – Present
Assistant Professor
Duke University (duke.edu)
2025 – 2025
Postdoc
Mila (mila.quebec)
2022 – 2025
Postdoc
Université de Montréal (umontreal.ca)
2022 – 2025
PhD student
Yale University (yale.edu)
2017 – 2021
Undergrad student
Tufts University (tufts.edu)
2013 – 2017

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor
Yoshua Bengio
2022 – 2025
PhD Advisor
Smita Krishnaswamy
2018 – 2021
PhD Advisor
James Aspnes
2017 – 2018

Expertise

flow matching
Present
protein design
, 
protein languge models
Present
diffusion
, 
discrete diffusion
, 
feynmann kac
, 
sde
Present
optimal transport
, 
deep learning
, 
continuous normalizing flows
2020 – Present
graph neural networks
, 
graph scattering
, 
graph signal processing
2020 – Present
novelty detection
, 
anomaly detection
, 
unsupervised anomaly detection
2020 – 2022

Publications

View all 148 publications

Co-Authors

View all 242 co-authors