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Alex Rives
Chan Zuckerberg InitiativeHead of Science
MITAssistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceBroad InstituteCore Institute Member
Rives pioneered protein language models through ESM, showing that models trained on evolutionary sequences can generate proteins and help predict how cells and diseases behave.
Career & education
Current rolesChan Zuckerberg Initiative2025-presentHead of Science
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative2025-presentAssistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Core Institute Member
Previously
EvolutionaryScaleUntil 2025Co-founder and Chief Scientist
EvolutionaryScaleUntil 2025Research Scientist, FAIR; ESM project lead
Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations17,577As of Jun 15, '26
citations+5,760Since last snapshot, Aug 25, '25
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