Tony Tong's brief bio
My journey from physics to AI
First, you can call me Tony.
Or you can call me Baojia. My Chinese name is 佟葆稼.
Currently, I am a Machine Learning Engineer at Suno AI in Cambridge, MA.
My work focuses on developing AI-powered music generation technologies, combining natural language processing,
machine learning model development, and building scalable systems for creative AI applications.
I work at the intersection of AI research and product development, helping to create tools that enable
people to generate music through natural language prompts.
You can find my current CV here .
I was a physics graduate student from Harvard University.
My research interest was in High Energy Particle Experiments, specifically,
what new particles or matter the LHC could create in Run II at TeV scale,
Then I worked with thousands of physicists to hunt them down!
Except, nothing was found.
So I graduated in 2018, and joined the Insight data science program,
which helped me transition from physics research to data science and machine learning.
After Insight, I worked as a machine learning engineer at Kensho Technologies, where I applied NLP and ML techniques
to financial and business intelligence problems. I then joined Suno AI, where I continue to work on cutting-edge AI
technologies, now focused on music generation.
I was a member of the Harvard ATLAS group, my adviser is Melissa Franklin.
I was a Teaching Fellow for Physics 16: Mechanics and Special Relativity
, Physics 125: Widely Applied Physics and Physical Science 12: Electricity and Magnetism at Harvard.
My detector work focused on ATLAS Muon offline Data Quality
,
which closely relates to understanding detector condition and reconstruction performance.
I also contributed in Muon reconstruction and Hough Transform for segment road finding.
My thesis project is the search of heavy resonance/non-resonance particles
decaying into two boosted Higgs bosons and then into 4b quarks.
This analysis, puts the strongest limit on heavy resonances (>1TeV) decaying into di-Higgs
and a strong limit (currently 29 times the Standard Model prediction) on Higgs self-coupling.
I was also interested in the search for triple W boson production at the LHC.
A bit about my self :
I spent my first 18 years in Mainland China. Tangshan is my hometown.
Then I moved to Tianjin, and eventually to Beijing, which is now my home.
After graduating from Beijing No.4 High School ,
I came to California Institute of Technology to pursue my B.S. in physics.
My undergraduate adviser was David Politzer.
I worked on measuring W/Z + Jets with
Maria Spiropulu in
the Caltech CMS group.
Previously I worked with Tom Tombrello,
Stephen Padin,
and Charles Plott.
In addition to physics, I am interested in classical music, especially in
Beethoven and
Mahler.
I also really enjoy playing/watching basketball and soccer.
I was a varsity swimmer for the Caltech Beavers during my four years of undergrad life.
