Funded research, global reach

Our founders' work is supported by federal agencies, philanthropic foundations, international organizations, and leading technology companies.

• NIST · US AI Safety Institute (CAISI)

  Co-Founders Lead the MLA Team

  Our co-founders lead the Modern Language Association team at the NIST U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium (CAISI), representing the largest scholarly organization in language and literature. Their work focuses on LLM evaluation: how language models process negation, prohibition, and persuasion.

• Schmidt Sciences · HAVI

  Elkins (Principal Investigator) · Chun (Co-PI)

  Our co-founders lead the Schmidt Sciences Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) Archival Intelligence project — one of 23 teams selected worldwide (Schmidt Sciences HAVI). AI-powered rescue of endangered cultural heritage archives in New Orleans, with community-governed data sovereignty.

• Notre Dame–IBM Tech Ethics Lab

  Co-Principal Investigators

  "How Well Can GenAI Predict Human Behavior?" Multi-agent judicial decision-making and behavioral prediction research.

• UNESCO

  Co-Founder Expert Contributor

  MONDIACULT expert consultation. Delivered invited webinar and contributed policy recommendations on AI frameworks for multilingual cultural preservation and digital heritage.

• OpenAI

  Co-Founder Speaker

  Selected as one of six faculty speakers from more than 1,000 applicants for the OpenAI Higher Education Forum. Presented computational humanities research in San Francisco, October 2025.

• Bloomberg

  Co-Founder Course Creator

  Created AI Strategy course for Bloomberg's professional education platform.