Alexander Lavin is an AI researcher and former rocket scientist who founded Pasteur Labs and the Institute for Simulation Intelligence (ISI) in New York. He is building what he calls 'the IDE for reality' - simulation engines fused with AI that let scientists and engineers run experiments in software before touching the physical world. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and lead author of the landmark 'Simulation Intelligence' paper, Lavin's path runs from lunar rovers and Blue Origin rocket structures through Numenta, Vicarious, and a probabilistic-medicine startup acquired by Johnson & Johnson, to a focused-research mission aimed at Nobel-Turing breakthroughs in energy, climate, and fusion.
Dan Furman is a neuroscientist and the co-founder and CEO of Arctop, a company building the software intelligence layer that decodes human brain signals in real time from everyday wearables like headbands, earbuds and VR headsets. A Harvard-trained neurobiologist with a Technion PhD, he once helped adapt a sleep-monitoring device into a brain-computer interface for Stephen Hawking, and his doctoral work showed that non-invasive scalp sensors could control individual neuroprosthetic fingers. In 2023 Arctop raised a $10M Series A to apply its 'Brain ID' and real-time cognition technology across medicine, education, cybersecurity and entertainment.