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Alex Rives is a core institute member at the Ó³»­´«Ã½ of MIT and Harvard, and an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Rives is a co-founder and chief scientist at EvolutionaryScale, a public-benefit startup dedicated to developing AI to accelerate scientific discovery in biology. At the Ó³»­´«Ã½, he develops novel, transformative AI systems and applications for the benefit of the global scientific community.

Rives founded and led the Evolutionary Scale Modeling (ESM) project at Meta’s fundamental AI research lab that developed the first large transformer language models for proteins. The ESM language models are widely recognized as a breakthrough achievement in the development of artificial intelligence for the life sciences and have been widely adopted by the scientific community. The models have enabled applications that include designing therapeutic proteins such as antibodies, predicting the clinical effect of mutations in the human genome, illuminating evolutionary history, and creating models of the cell.

Rives earned his B.S. in philosophy and biology from Yale University and his Ph.D. in computer science from New York University.