Alberto Tono served as Design Technology Specialist at HOK with a O1 Visa - Extraordinary Alien Status. Prior to HOK, Alberto is working in the computational design space since 2015 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. Learning and this passion inspired him to found and helped various communities, Deeplearningitalia, Italian Dynamo User Group, San Francisco Computational Design User Group, Bimhox. He also is a speaker in several international conferences and universities such as Berkeley and MIT. 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.