Alex Wong
Chief Scientist, DarwinAI

Alexander Wong is chief scientist at DarwinAI, a Waterloo-based startup that enables deep learning optimization and explainability by way of its patented Generative Synthesis technology, as well as the Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Medical Imaging, a founding member of the Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute, and an associate professor in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Alex has published over 450 refereed journal and conference papers and holds patents in various fields such as computational imaging and artificial intelligence. He has received numerous awards for his work in artificial intelligence, including best paper awards at the prestigious NIPS conference in 2017 and 2016 on transparent and interpretable machine learning and efficient methods for deep neural networks, respectively.