Alex Rives

Alex Rives joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as an assistant professor in September 2024, with a core membership at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. In his research, Rives focuses on AI for scientific understanding, discovery, and design for biology. As a graduate student, Rives worked with Meta, leading the Evolutionary Scale Modeling Team that developed large language models for proteins. Rives received his BS in philosophy and biology from Yale University and is completing his PhD in computer science at New York University.