Tono Alberto

Tono Alberto is a current Ph.D. Candidate at Stanford University under the supervision of Kumagai Professor Martin Fischer  in Civil Environmental Engineering and Professor Jiajun Wu, Professor Leonidas Guibas, Professor Hari Subramonyam and Professor James Landay in Computer Science.  Furthermore, he is the founder of the Computational Design Institute, where he is exploring ways in which the convergence between Digital and Humanities can facilitate cross-pollination between different industries. Following this mission, he became a Stanford HAI, and McCoy Graduate Fellow researching Human-Centered AI solutions for augmenting and amplifying human capabilities with design processes. 

He served as an AI Research Scientist at Autodesk and Zillow, he received the O1 visa for outstanding abilities twice with two different companies. Tono obtained his Masters's in Engineering from the University of Padua. During his period at the Harbin Institute of Technology (China) he explored computational design and deep learning applications since 2014. Furthermore, he is focused on inmproving companies workflows within a statistical framework to optimize the sustainability impact of these processes. He is an international multi-award-winning "hacker" and speaker, and his work within Engineering and Artificial Intelligence brought him to companies in China, the Netherlands, Italy, and California. Thanks to his multidisciplinary approach, he worked as Data Scientist and Geometric Deep Learning Researcher in a tech startup, helping to raise over 80 Million while working on 3D Search and Monocular 3D Shape Retrieval and Generation problems with Deep Generative Models. 

With his wife Hannah Tono, they established the international CDI's Dreamship Research Program focused on supporting Pediatric Palliative Care hospices with immersive technologies.