Full Name

Alex Rives

Job Title

Co-Founder & Chief Scientist

Company

EvolutionaryScale

Speaker Bio

Alex Rives, is a computer scientist specializing in AI language models for biology. He is the chief scientist and co-founder of EvolutionaryScale, the leading frontier AI research lab for life sciences, launched in 2023. Rives graduated from Yale University with degrees in philosophy and biology and went on to co-found several biotech companies, including Fate Therapeutics, Syros Pharmaceuticals, and Kallyope. While a graduate student at New York University, he founded the ESM project in Meta’s FAIR (Fundamental AI Research) unit, building what is widely recognized as the first transformer language model (LLM) for proteins. Rives will join the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and will hold a core membership at the Broad Institute in winter 2025.