Tony Wong
Learning Assistant Program Director at Rochester Institute of Technology
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTony Wong is a computational scientist and educator with 9+ years applying machine learning, Bayesian methods, and reproducible data pipelines to high-impact problems in climate risk, ecosystem hydrology, and educational equity. As an Assistant Professor and Learning Assistant Program Director at RIT, he builds open-source modeling tools and scalable calibration/validation workflows that integrate messy observational, satellite, and climate model data. His research blends ensemble and uncertainty quantification techniques to inform policy-relevant decisions—such as sea-level rise risk—while translating results for diverse stakeholders from peer-reviewed publications to institutional retention analyses. Tony’s background in applied mathematics and hands-on teaching across multiple universities gives him a rare combination of statistical rigor, pedagogy, and software engineering. He is motivated by mission-driven applications of data science where computation directly improves resilience and access, and he often draws on tracer-based process understanding in model development—an approach born from his PhD work on stable water isotopes.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Mathematics at University of Colorado at BoulderBachelor's Degree, Astrophysics, Mathematics (Hons.), Bachelor's Degree, Astrophysics, Mathematics (Hons.) at Ohio Wesleyan University
English
Github Skills (22)
journal9
open-access9
academia7
creative-commons6
rise5
storm4
julia3
atmosphere3
mercury3
climate-change3
climate-science3
carbon-emissions3
math2
machine-learning2
sustainability2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
scrim-network/BRICK
Dec 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 release, 2 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 1 month
yingpsu/Royer2007-Climate-Sensitivity
May 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 180 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
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