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2025 Extraordinary Fellows

Silas Alberti
Silas Alberti

23 – Founding team member at Cognition AI, co-creator of Devin (the AI Software Engineer) and a large language model researcher at Google DeepMind and Stanford. He pioneered PIGEON, the first superhuman AI in GeoGuessr, and defeated pro player Rainbolt in a viral video.

Alishba Imran
Alishba Imran

21 – At 16, developed a computer vision prosthetic arm, which led to joining Hanson Robotics to work on Sophia the Robot and co-lead research in neuro-symbolic AI. Deep tech polymath and past researcher/engineer at the Arc Institute, Harvard Biodesign Lab, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, Cruise, the Vector Institute and NVIDIA. Authored O’Reilly textbook 'Machine Learning for Robotics'

Braden Boyko
Braden Boyko

22 – Viral engineer behind the Beluga YouTube channel (10 million+ subscribers and more than 2.4 billion views). 2nd most viewed face reveal on the internet. Recipient of the Diamond Play Button.

Daniel Hong
Daniel Hong

24 – Bitcoin contributor since 2008. Hacked the iPhone. Apple tried to sue him only to discover he was 11 years old so they offered him an internship. Wrote one of the first Bitcoin GPU miners in CUDA

Toby Brown
Toby Brown

16 – Technical prodigy and founder of Beem Computer, a novel computing interface that has raised $1 million in funding.

James Lin
James Lin

22 – Neuroscience and deep learning researcher at MIT's Boyden Lab, developing nanoimaging tools for whole-brain mapping.

Miguel Piedrafita
Miguel Piedrafita

22 – Renowned "purple-haired 10X engineer" known for rapidly shipping innovative projects. He is currently an engineer at Worldcoin.

Marvin Von Hagen
Marvin Von Hagen

23 – Co-founder of Interaction.co, a novel computing interaction company. A former researcher at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, he has been featured in Time, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

Nicole Sun
Nicole Sun

22 – Creator of Zuzalu, the crypto pop up city experiment. Crypto Advisor.

Gabriel Petersson
Gabriel Petersson

22 – Worked on Sora video generation at OpenAI. A high school dropout turned AI engineer, previously at Midjourney.

Jia Hu
Jia Hu

17 – Design engineer recognized for viral iOS concept designs, collectively amassing millions of views.

Kenson Chung
Kenson Chung

22 – Engineering savant and co-creator of Origami Agents (YC F24), an AI agent company.

Felix Schlegel
Felix Schlegel

23 – Low-level computing expert and co-founder of Interaction.co. Formerly at Apple, where he integrated Apache Kafka into Swift and contributed to server-side Swift development.

Luke Piette
Luke Piette

22 – Founding team of RunPod, the AI GPU marketplace, which scaled to 200,000+ developers and mid-eight figures in revenue. Brain computer interface researcher.

Andrew Nijmeh
Andrew Nijmeh

16 – Systems/Infrastructure programming @ venture-backed companies since 13. Disassembled the EVM at 13 in >1000 lines of code.Founder @ Instafleet, Agents for warehouse operations for shippers & forwarders.

Brendon Matusch
Brendon Matusch

21 – Built a self driving go-cart at 14. Worked on dark matter detectors at SNOLAB, NLP @ Midjourney in 2020, robot simulators at NVIDIA and intelligent sidewalk robots at HYPR. Stanford graduate and train enjoyer

Om Agarwal
Om Agarwal

22 – At 16, trained and productionized SOTA CNNs to detect breast density from mammograms for cancer diagnosis. Founder of Brightlight, applied AI for patient triage, intake, healthcare delivery, and EHR.

Sean Grindal
Sean Grindal

22 – Founder and design engineer at Deco, with rebranding and application-building credits for DeFi.tech and Valour.com, a $1.6 billion market. His clients have collectively raised more than $300 million.

Sean Cheetham
Sean Cheetham

25 - Built Huff, the most used low-level EVM assembly language. Systems + cryptography engineer @ Aztec.

Ricardo de Arruda
Ricardo de Arruda

22 – Cryptographic data expert who built a blockchain fraud detection system that processed more than $4 billion last year—over half the industry's total airdrop volume.

Daniel Guo
Daniel Guo

22 - Machine Learning and Biology researcher, currently working on genomic foundation models and adapter-guided protein design at the Arc Institute and Stanford AI Lab.

Dennis Jin
Dennis Jin

Spearheading product innovation at Snapchat through design engineering. He’s helped launch things like Snapchat+, their captions tool, which people use billions of times a day. 

Jonathan Lima
Jonathan Lima

Technical prodigy and founding engineer at Brex ($12.3 billion valuation).

Ada Cyborg
Ada Cyborg

Transhumanist technology designer and quantum computing artist, creator of the first neotranshumanist technology exhibition.

Brandon Leigh-Bennett
Brandon Leigh-Bennett

Graphics and AI developer creating model interpretability tools for large language models using WebGPU.