Recognition Labs

The builder matters.

The incentives of product makers eventually show up in the products they make. We built Recognition Labs as a nonprofit and designed it to stay that way, so our incentives stay lined up with the people we serve. Everything we build has one goal: people spending more of life together.

Builders

• Nick ObradovichCofounder
  Chief Executive Officer Highly cited behavioral scientist and nonprofit leader who laid the groundwork for examining AI behaviors and their impact on humans. Millions of people interacted with generative AI projects he created while at MIT and Harvard. His science is regularly published in top scientific venues and has been covered by all major media outlets.
• Bjarke FelboCofounder
  Chief Technology Officer AI researcher who developed open-source algorithms at MIT that now serve 300 million people a day. He has been named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 and awarded the MIT Media Lab’s Marvin Minsky Fellowship. His last startup raised $10 million from Y Combinator and other top investors.
• Renee WurthCofounder
  Chief Product Officer Behavioral scientist and product leader who trained at Northeastern and Harvard, with fellowships at MIT and UC Berkeley. She founded a startup at Harvard’s Innovation Lab and was a Menlo Ventures fellow. She has spent the past decade leading research and product in tech, including billion-dollar consumer brands.
• Piotr BorowianCofounder
  AI Director Software engineer trained at the Technical University of Denmark who has spent 15+ years finding simple solutions to hard technical problems. At Deltek, he designed programming languages, built compilers and developer tools, and shipped software used by nearly a million people. He now turns AI advances into products, taking them from idea to launch.

Advisors

• Martin PaulusCofounder
  Scientific Advisor Neuroscientist cited more than 75,000 times, Martin has led the Laureate Institute for Brain Research since 2014 and is a lead investigator on the largest long-term study of brain development ever conducted in the United States. He has received more than $50 million in NIH funding, studies how screens shape children’s developing brains, and examines peak performance in Navy SEALs.
• James FowlerScientific Advisor Guggenheim Fellow and UC San Diego professor cited more than 70,000 times, James pioneered the science of how behaviors spread through social networks. He coauthored Connected, an award-winning international bestseller translated into 20 languages, and co-led a 61-million-person experiment on how friends shape each other’s behavior.
• Sune LehmannScientific Advisor Professor of social data science and former Harvard fellow, Sune led a groundbreaking study that uncovered how friendships form and made global headlines showing information overload is shrinking the world’s attention span. He has won the EliteForsk Prize, the Danish government’s top research prize, and is a chief scientist at Denmark’s National Center for AI in Society.