Team
Founding Team
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Co-founder
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Creative physicist and technologist
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Physics & CS @ Harvard
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VP @ Conflux Art Tech
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Research in quantum mechanics and nanoscale optics @ CERN and Harvard Nanoscale Optics Lab
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Built a local makerspace in rural Germany in high school, raising >100k
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Technical background: hardware & software (electronics, ML, CAD, algorithms, soft robotics)
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Passionate musician and composer
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Co-founder
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x-disciplinary developer, neuroscientist, writer
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Graduate researcher @ MIT Media Lab, Fluid Interfaces group
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Final year Master’s student in Bioinformatics,
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Bachelor’s in Biomedical Sciences @ UCL
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Technical background: fullstack software development, LLMs, ML, bioengineering, cognitive neuroscience, fabrication foundations
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Working on generative AI, biosignals & wearable AI
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Co-founder
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Creative rebel and transdisciplinary engineer
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Final year Master student @ Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Researcher @ Harvard Responsive Environments & Artifacts Lab
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Technical background: Film-video, Wearables, Software (web development, generative ML) & Hardware (robotics) integration, etc.
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Bachelor's in Dance @ Juliiard School
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Co-founder
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Creative technologist
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Designing a major in Human Augmentation @ Harvard College
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Researcher @ MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
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Co-founder of Harvard AR/VR Developers and Conflux Art Tech Club
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Technical background: software (XR, generative ML, full stack), microfabrication & nanomaterials
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Storyteller at heart, grew up writing sci-fi novels
Core Team
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Native hacker, building XR, robotics, personal Al
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Designing a special major in Human Augmentation @ Harvard College
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Dropped out to be the
CTO @ Vision Cycle, raised to-date $2.5M -
Co-founded the Harvard
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Founded a phone repair company at 16, with over 2400 customers & 900 repairs
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Extraterrestrial bioengineering innovator
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Biomedical Engineering BSc @ UoF
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Research in biocompatible microgels and bioprinting lung-based organoids for understanding COVID pathology and developing therapeutics
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Technical background: biomaterials engineering, implantables, cell culture, space tech
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Passionate about space synthetic biology, extraterrestrial habitat development, and sustainable space exploration
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Creative Neurotechnologist, Wearables Strategy Consultant
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Brain-Computer Interface Researcher @ MIT Media Lab
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Psychology & CS @ University of Toronto
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Working on biosensing wearables that improve cognitive health with thoughtful go-to-market strategies for consumer impact
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Computational Neuroscience & Art History @ Harvard
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Cofounder @ Conflux Collective
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Research in HCI, media technologies, experimental psychology @ MIT Media Lab, MIT Press, and Harvard Laboratory for Developmental Studies
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Contemporary Artist, Classical Singer, and Creative Technologist: Exhibited at MIT Museum, Solo Performances at Carnegie Hall, &more
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Led the production of the 2023 “Who Owns the Truth?” Ars Electronica Festival
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Plays a mean kazoo
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Reproductive Rights Advocate
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Learning Design @ Harvard Graduate School of Education​
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Studying human enhancement through reproductive tech and education
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Working at an early stage embryo selection startup in Stealth
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Program Manager at a refugee sponsorship project
Residency Fellows
2024
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Circuit design, FPGAs, electronics engineering, wearables
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Hardware researcher and physics student at NYU
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Projects: Magnetic Tunnel Junction RNG, Wearable GPS
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Design Research
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Wearable Assistive Technology
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Currently pursuing a PhD in Design
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Worked as graphic and interaction designer
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Projects: FLUID
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Likes playing stressful video games to relax
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Multimodal AI, BCI, Media Arts
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Interested in Brain Decoding, Foundation Models, Wearables, Hardware/Maker
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Artist in Residence @ Dassault Systèmes
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Research Scientist @ ONTBO
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Research Assistant @ Deezer Research
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Fabricademy, Textile & Technology Academy @ Paris-Saclay University
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AI/CS MSc + Humanités & Technologie BSc @ UTC Compiègne
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Projects: Strange Loops, ReaDream
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Technology and Interaction Design, Architecture and Urban Design, Digital Fabrication and 3D Modeling, Wearable Technology and AI
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Istanbul Technical University, Architecture ‘21
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MIT SMArchS Architectural Design ‘25
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Projects: Collective Music Making Machines
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Brain Decoding, BCIs, NeuroAI, Hardware Design & Development, Wearables
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Currently a research engineer @ IT Consortium GH
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Teaching Assistant for Computational
Neuroscience @ TReND -
Teaching Assistant @ Black in Neuro (BiN)
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Projects: Automatic Feeding Pump for Premature Babies in LMICs
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Participated in competitive swimming
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Bioinformatics, Personal A.I., Data Autonomy
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UVA BS Biomedical Engineering ‘21
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Bioinformatician at Day Zero Diagnostics
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Projects: Hindsight.life, Browser History Personal Feed
2023
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Neurotech hacker
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EECS @ UC Berkeley
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Hardware Engineer @ Lorentz Bio, working on neurocropreservation
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Research on BCI for speech synthesis @ Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research
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Technical background: system and electrical design of non-invasive neural interfaces (EMG, EOG), computer vision/ML, hardware hacks
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Research in: speech synthesis BCIs
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Curious about sensory substitution/augmentation and vision science
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Embedded systems engineer @ Apple
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Studied CS @ Rice University while building electronics for AR by night
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Technical background: consumer electronics design (HDI, System-in-Package), computer architecture (high-performance microprocessors, accelerators), systems programming (embedded Linux, RTOS), robotics (motion planning, computer vision)
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Serious about software and constantly making custom hardware
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Computer Scientist obsessed with Human-Machine Singularity
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Neurotech founder @ Entrepreneur First, 1st US cohort
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Former PhD Student @ Tufts University studying BCI and neural ML
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Technical Background: Software Engineering, ML, BCI, Cloud Computing
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Research experience in nanoscale optics, autonomous UAV navigation, BCI, RL, and computer vision
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Creative technologist
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ML Engineer @ Osmo AI, giving computers a sense of smell
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Studied CS for undergrad @ NYU Shanghai and went to Industrial Design grad school @Rhode Island School of Design to design physical objects
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Technical background: software engineering (swift, unity, web, python), woodworking, welding, 3d modeling, furniture design, soft goods
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Passionate about physical interface & tangible media
Caine Ardayfio
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Developer & Venture Leader
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Engineer @ Mach Industries
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Dropped out of CS & Math @ Harvard
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Technical background: full stack, ML, & XR software, BCI, digital fabrication & hardware prototyping
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Experience in scaling organizations
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Robotics researcher
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CS & Applied Math @ Harvard
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Past internships @ Boston Dynamics, NASA, Air Force, Harvard Microrobotics Lab
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Technical background: robotics, control systems, computer vision
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Experience in developing robotics software components for industry & research
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Hardware engineer & artist
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Currently in high school, taking all his classes @ Harvard & MIT
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Research @ MIT Media Lab & MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Science
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Organizer @ MIT Reality Hack
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Technical Background: XR, CAD, electronics, drones
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Previous experience in autonomous drones, BCI, and XR Hardware design
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MLE Intern @ Kaiser Permanente
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CS & Philosophy @ Virginia Tech
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VP Ops, KiranaKart/ Zepto (YC W21)
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LLM Engineer Intern @Raylu
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AI/ML Software Engineer Intern @ConstructWorks AI
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Atlas Fellow
Contact
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