Alex Wong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the director of the Vision Laboratory at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, he was an Adjunct Professor at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) from 2018 to 2020. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2019 and was co-advised by Stefano Soatto and Alan Yuille. He was previously a post-doctoral research scholar at UCLA under the guidance of Soatto. His research lies in the intersection of machine learning, computer vision, and robotics and focuses on multimodal 3D reconstruction, robust vision under adverse conditions, and unsupervised learning. Wong has served as an Area Chair for conferences in machine learning and computer vision, including ICCV, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, WACV. His work has been recognized by the outstanding student paper award at NeurIPS 2011 and the best paper award in robot vision at ICRA 2019.
