Biography
Alex Wong is assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University, where he directs the Vision Laboratory. His 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. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science at UCLA in 2019 and joined Yale after a postdoctoral research scholarship there. His work has been recognised with the Outstanding Student Paper Award at NeurIPS and the Best Paper Award in Robot Vision at ICRA.
Research Interests
- computational vision
- depth estimation
- scene understanding
- physical reasoning
- 3D perception
SCENE Teams
Featured Publications
The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience: Studying how the brain interacts with the world
Angelaki DE, Batista A, Fitzgerald T, Kominsky JF, Lengyel M, Mathis A, Mathis MW, Moss CF, Niell CM, Noel JP, Pitkow X, Rothkopf CA, Savin C, Stachenfeld K, Suthana N, Tolias A, Ulanovsky N, Wolpert DM, Wong A, Zimmermann J
Neuron, 2026 · DOI (opens in new tab) · Preprint (PDF) (opens in new tab)