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Team

Founding Team
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Aida Baradari

  • Co-founder

  • Creative physicist and technologist

  • Physics & CS @ Harvard

  • VP @ Conflux Art Tech

  • Research in quantum mechanics and nanoscale optics @ CERN and Harvard Nanoscale Optics Lab

  • Built a local makerspace in rural Germany in high school, raising >100k

  • Technical background: hardware & software (electronics, ML, CAD, algorithms, soft robotics)

  • Passionate musician and composer

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Dünya Baradari

  • Co-founder

  • x-disciplinary developer, neuroscientist, writer

  • Graduate researcher @ MIT Media Lab, Fluid Interfaces group

  • Final year Master’s student in Bioinformatics,

  • Bachelor’s in Biomedical Sciences @ UCL

  • Technical background: fullstack software development, LLMs, ML, bioengineering, cognitive neuroscience, fabrication foundations

  • Working on generative AI, biosignals & wearable AI

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Treyden Chiaravalloti

  • Co-founder

  • Creative rebel and transdisciplinary engineer

  • Final year Master student @ Harvard Graduate School of Design

  • Researcher @ Harvard Responsive Environments & Artifacts Lab

  • Technical background: Film-video, Wearables, Software (web development, generative ML) & Hardware (robotics) integration, etc.

  • Bachelor's in Dance @ Juliiard School

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Alice Cai

  • Co-founder

  • Creative technologist

  • Designing a major in Human Augmentation @ Harvard College

  • Researcher @ MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

  • Co-founder of Harvard AR/VR Developers and Conflux Art Tech Club

  • Technical background: software (XR, generative ML, full stack), microfabrication & nanomaterials

  • Storyteller at heart, grew up writing sci-fi novels

Core Team
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AnhPhu Nguyen

  • Native hacker, building XR, robotics, personal Al

  • Designing a special major in Human Augmentation @ Harvard College

  • Dropped out to be the
    CTO @ Vision Cycle, raised to-date $2.5M

  • Co-founded the Harvard
    AR/VR Developers Club

  • Founded a phone repair company at 16, with over 2400 customers & 900 repairs

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Tryanni Chiaravalloti

  • Extraterrestrial bioengineering innovator

  • Biomedical Engineering BSc @ UoF

  • Research in biocompatible microgels and bioprinting lung-based organoids for understanding COVID pathology and developing therapeutics

  • Technical background: biomaterials engineering, implantables, cell culture, space tech

  • Passionate about space synthetic biology, extraterrestrial habitat development, and sustainable space exploration

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Yasmeen Hmaidan

  • Creative Neurotechnologist, Wearables Strategy Consultant

  • Brain-Computer Interface Researcher @ MIT Media Lab

  • Psychology & CS @ University of Toronto

  • Working on biosensing wearables that improve cognitive health with thoughtful go-to-market strategies for consumer impact

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Peggy Yin

  • Computational Neuroscience & Art History @ Harvard

  • Cofounder @ Conflux Collective

  • Research in HCI, media technologies, experimental psychology @ MIT Media Lab, MIT Press, and Harvard Laboratory for Developmental Studies

  • Contemporary Artist, Classical Singer, and Creative Technologist: Exhibited at MIT Museum, Solo Performances at Carnegie Hall, &more

  • Led the production of the 2023 “Who Owns the Truth?” Ars Electronica Festival

  • Plays a mean kazoo

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Lillian Tara

  • Reproductive Rights Advocate

  • Learning Design @ Harvard Graduate School of Education​

  • Studying human enhancement through reproductive tech and education

  • Working at an early stage embryo selection startup in Stealth

  • Program Manager at a refugee sponsorship project

Residency Fellows
2024
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Andre Dubovskiy

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Jacob Trebil

  • AI Engineering, Personal AI, Startups

  • Interested in hardware, BCIs, and wearables

  • Founded Cobra Kendama at 13 (1,000+ sales)

  • Prev-Founding Engineer @ Andi (YC-Backed AI Startup)

  • Made an AI trained on his life

  • Projects: Vibe, Balla, Cobra, Pal

  • One of the best Kendama players in the world
     

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Camilla Gironi

  • Design Research

  • Wearable Assistive Technology

  • Currently pursuing a PhD in Design

  • Worked as graphic and interaction designer

  • Projects: FLUID

  • Likes playing stressful video games to relax
     

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Ninon Lizé Masclef

  • Multimodal AI, BCI, Media Arts

  • Interested in Brain Decoding, Foundation Models, Wearables, Hardware/Maker

  • Artist in Residence @ Dassault Systèmes

  • Research Scientist @ ONTBO

  • Research Assistant @ Deezer Research

  • Fabricademy, Textile & Technology Academy @ Paris-Saclay University

  • AI/CS MSc + Humanités & Technologie BSc  @ UTC Compiègne

  • Projects: Strange Loops, ReaDream

  • Sleeps with an EEG cap on for art's sake!
     

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Nasibe Nur

  • Technology and Interaction Design, Architecture and Urban Design, Digital Fabrication and 3D Modeling, Wearable Technology and AI

  • Istanbul Technical University, Architecture ‘21

  • MIT SMArchS Architectural Design ‘25

  • Projects: Collective Music Making Machines

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Nathaniel Adibuer

  • Brain Decoding, BCIs, NeuroAI, Hardware Design & Development, Wearables

  • Currently a research engineer @ IT Consortium GH

  • Teaching Assistant for Computational
    Neuroscience @ TReND

  • Teaching Assistant @ Black in Neuro (BiN)

  • Projects: Automatic Feeding Pump for Premature Babies in LMICs

  • Participated in competitive swimming
     

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Connor Parish

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Advait Paliwal

  • Building hardware and software projects in AI

  • Love art, drawing and painting for 10 years

  • On leave from Brown
    Previously at Founders, Inc.

  • Founded YouLearn, an AI tutor

  • Building Iris, an AI wearable that captures the world as you see it

  • Projects: Reminisc, YouLearn, Insight

2023
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Inga Zhuravleva

  • Neurotech hacker

  • EECS @ UC Berkeley

  • Hardware Engineer @ Lorentz Bio, working on neurocropreservation 

  • Research on BCI for speech synthesis @ Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research

  • Technical background: system and electrical design of non-invasive neural interfaces (EMG, EOG), computer vision/ML, hardware hacks

  • Research in: speech synthesis BCIs

  • Curious about sensory substitution/augmentation and vision science

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Aedan Cullen

  • Embedded systems engineer @ Apple

  • Studied CS @ Rice University while building electronics for AR by night

  • 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)

  • Serious about software and constantly making custom hardware

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Ellery Buntel

  • Computer Scientist obsessed with Human-Machine Singularity

  • Neurotech founder @ Entrepreneur First, 1st US cohort

  • Former PhD Student @ Tufts University studying BCI and neural ML

  • Technical Background: Software Engineering, ML, BCI, Cloud Computing

  • Research experience in nanoscale optics, autonomous UAV navigation, BCI, RL, and computer vision

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Jennifer Huang

  • Creative technologist

  • ML Engineer @ Osmo AI, giving computers a sense of smell

  • Studied CS for undergrad @ NYU Shanghai and went to Industrial Design grad school @Rhode Island School of Design to design physical objects

  • Technical background: software engineering (swift, unity, web, python), woodworking, welding, 3d modeling, furniture design, soft goods

  • Passionate about physical interface & tangible media

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Caine Ardayfio

  • Developer & Venture Leader

  • Engineer @ Mach Industries

  • Dropped out of CS & Math @ Harvard

  • Technical background: full stack, ML, & XR software, BCI, digital fabrication & hardware prototyping

  • Experience in scaling organizations

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Aryan Naveen

  • Robotics researcher

  • CS & Applied Math @ Harvard

  • Past internships @ Boston Dynamics, NASA, Air Force, Harvard Microrobotics Lab

  • Technical background: robotics, control systems, computer vision

  • Experience in developing robotics software components for industry & research

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Vikram Gupta

  • Hardware engineer & artist

  • Currently in high school, taking all his classes @ Harvard & MIT

  • Research @ MIT Media Lab & MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Science

  • Organizer @ MIT Reality Hack

  • Technical Background: XR, CAD, electronics, drones

  • Previous experience in autonomous drones, BCI, and XR Hardware design

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Soham Patil

  • MLE Intern @ Kaiser Permanente

  • CS & Philosophy @ Virginia Tech

  •  VP Ops, KiranaKart/ Zepto (YC W21)

  • LLM Engineer Intern @Raylu

  • AI/ML Software Engineer Intern @ConstructWorks AI

  • Atlas Fellow

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