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Alberto Tono serves as the Design Technology Specialist at HOK. He has a double MS degree in both Architecture and Engineering, he is a certified engineer in Italy and LEED AP. Prior to HOK, Alberto was working in the computational design space since 2014 for BIM workflow on large projects. His studies took him to Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in China and to Rene van Zuuk Architect Studio in the Netherlands. He is very keen on computational design and machine learning. These passions inspired him to found and helped various communities, Deeplearningitalia, Italian Dynamo User Group, Bimhox, Dreamship. He also is a speaker in several international conferences and universities. He is the co-founder and board of director of the Alumni Unipd Chapter in the Bay Area that helps to connect his university with the Bay Area Ecosystem and the San Francisco Computational Design Institute. After his arrival in the United States, he was a multi-awarded hackathons winner and speaker in several international conferences.

Italy - University of Padua

He graduated with the highest score from the University of Padua with a thesis about Computational BIM and Engineerization of the Process in 2016.

China - Harbin Institute of Technology

Before he graduated he went for 6 months in China, studying and working at the Harbin Institute of Technology and sharing his know-how related to BIM workflows with his Chinese colleagues at The Architectural Design and Research Institute of HIT: http://www.hitadri.cn/ with Mei Hongyuan.

Netherland - Almere

He won his Erasmus Grant scholarship to be able to collaborate with Rene Van Zuuk architects studio, working on Dordrecht Bridge, Home Away and several other complex projects that required computational skills related to programming languages and visual programming techniques as well, such as Dynamo, Grasshopper, Python, and C#.

Italy - Rome

He applied the studies to several international projects during his period at Bimon and React as Computational BIM Specialist Deep Learning Italia

The United States - San Francisco

He was conducting his research about Artificial Intelligence and Building Information Modeling to deliver a Building Knowledge Modeling System capable to use AI to inform the design decisions and other applications. He was conducting this research with the Italian grant of Torno Subito. This research was supported by the HOK San Francisco office, that applied for his O1 Extraordinary Alien visa in order to allow him to stay in the USA.

Alumni of the University of Padua Bay Area and San Francisco Chapter

He created and he acts as secretary for the Bay Area Chapter non-profit of the alumni of the University of Padua

San Francisco Computational Design Institute

He created and he acts as secretary for the San Francisco Computational Design Institute. Were he is hosting other fellows Italians and providing cutting edge research in the field of Building Information Modeling and Artificial Intelligence, more related to connecting different fields with the Architectural Engineering and Construction Industry

HOK Design Technology Specialist

His previous mentor and manager Cesar Escalante left HOK in order to serve as Director of Design Technology at Gensler. During the absence of a Design Technology Manager at HOK, he served the company in this interim position.