Meet our team
David Jiang
CEO
Experienced investor and entrepreneur who has built software and hardware companies in Silicon Valley. Former CEO and Board Member at PineBridge Investments and Global Head of Index & ETF Investing at BNY Mellon.
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Alina Krasnobrizha
CSO
AI strategist, entrepreneur, and author. PhD in mathematical modeling from École Centrale de Nantes; former Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at Paris Nanterre University.
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Chretien Li
CTO
Co-Founder of AIBI. Minerva University CS&AI honors graduate and startup lifer who has worked on founding teams at numerous early and growth-stage startups.
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Mark Barger Elliott
Head of Narrative
Idea architect, award-winning documentary filmmaker, nonprofit leader, and author. Creator of Life Architecture, an approach to designing emotions, decisions, and purpose.
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Clare Connors
Head of Policy
Lawyer and former public official with 20+ years in the criminal and civil justice systems. Most recently the presidentially appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Hawaii.
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Gurpreet Singh
AI Engineer
Experienced co-founder with four patents filed. Master's in AI and MBA in Information Management; specializes in pre-training and fine-tuning LLMs with RLHF and RAG.
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Bal Kumar
Backend Engineer
Founding-level engineering leader and Co-Founder/CTO building AI-native B2B platforms. Previously led Trust & Safety and revenue systems at Yahoo.
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Olga Sebastian
Data Scientist
Data Science and Economics graduate from UC Berkeley with a strong foundation in statistical modeling, machine learning, and economic analysis.
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Steven Khuong
Market Engagement Leader
Entrepreneur and executive operator in AI, fintech, and SaaS. Scaled a fintech platform past $1B in transaction volume; featured by The New York Times, CNN, Forbes, and Inc.
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We are grateful for our advisors, who offer insights and guidance in our work at Heura Lab. They serve in their individual capacity; institutional affiliations are for identification only and do not imply institutional endorsement.
Kristen Lindquist
Leading social and affective neuroscientist studying how emotions emerge through the interaction of brain, body, and culture.
Desmond Ong
Assistant Professor of Psychology at UT Austin. Studies how humans and AI understand emotions and social reasoning. NSF CAREER Award recipient.
Iris Mauss
Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley and Director of IPSR. Research on emotional well-being, emotion regulation, and human flourishing.
Steven T. Piantadosi
UC Berkeley Professor in Psychology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. Leads the Computation and Language Lab.
Keanan Joyner
Assistant Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley and Director of the C.R.E.A.M. Lab. Focuses on addiction and clinical neuroscience.
David Livermore
Social scientist and global leadership expert pioneering Cultural Intelligence (CQ). Founder of the Cultural Intelligence Center.
Özlem Ayduk
Professor and Chair of Psychology at UC Berkeley. Research on emotion regulation, self-control, and interpersonal relationships.
Bill Thompson
Assistant Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley and Director of the Computational Cognitive Science Lab.
Timothy R. Tangherlini
Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley combining storytelling, folklore, and data science to understand narratives and social behavior.
Dana Miller-Cotto
Assistant Professor in the UC Berkeley School of Education. Research on educational equity and cognitive development.
Peter Sheridan Dodds
Professor at the University of Vermont and Director of the Vermont Complex Systems Institute. Studies complex systems and collective behavior.
Amitai Shenhav
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Examines motivation, effort, and decision-making.
Sheri Johnson
Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley focused on mood disorders, emotional processes, and impulsivity.