Alex Wong, Ph.D.

Alex Wong is assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Director of the Vision Laboratory at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, he served as adjunct professor at Loyola Marymount University from 2018 to 2020 and as a postdoctoral research scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 2020 to 2022. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 2019.

Wong’s research lies at the intersection of machine learning, computer vision and robotics, with a focus on multimodal 3D reconstruction, robust vision under adverse conditions and unsupervised learning. His work has been recognized by the Outstanding Student Paper Award at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) in 2011 and the Best Paper Award in Robot Vision at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in 2019.