Our team

Before starting Elicit, Andreas was a postdoctoral researcher in Noah Goodman's Computational Cognitive Science lab at Stanford. He co-created WebPPL, a programming language for probabilistic machine learning.

He holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from MIT, where he worked in Josh Tenenbaum's group.

Prior to Elicit, Jungwon was the Head of Growth at Upstart, where she helped the company scale 5x in revenue and originations.

Before Upstart, Jungwon was a management consultant at Oliver Wyman and the Executive Director / CEO of Elmseed Enterprise Fund. She graduated cum laude from Yale, and holds a B.A. in economics.

James leads our engineering team. He joined Elicit from Spring, where he was VP of Technology leading the development of their creator commerce platform.

Before Spring, James founded startups in the personal knowledge management and developer tools spaces, then brought a team to Square to build their Payroll product.

Sarah is an Operations leader with a background spanning SaaS, online media, and hospitality. Prior to Elicit, she was Head of People at Geneva and President at MeetEdgar.

Sarah is an advocate for building sustainable, people-first companies and communities.

Brad is a product designer who previously worked at Figma, Medium, and IDEO as well as founding several startups of his own.

He holds an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT where he studied fluid dynamics and a B.S. from University of California San Diego in Mechanical Engineering.

Kadir is a product leader with experience in e-commerce, marketplaces, and autonomous transportation.

Before Elicit, he led the autonomous delivery experience at Cruise and the product and design team at Spring, a creator commerce platform. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Princeton and an MBA from Stanford.

Before Elicit, Hamsa was an APM at Google where he worked on making Google's first LLMs safe for release. He also worked as a technical writer and founded a startup focused on making the news more useful to people.

He graduated from Duke with a B.S. in Computer Science.

Étienne specializes in designing evaluations of Elicit's AI outputs. Before Elicit, he studied evolutionary biology and computer science, and worked as a software engineer in natural language processing at Druide informatique.

He's also a blogger and occasional freelance writer.

Ben was a software engineer at Wonder Workshop prior to joining Elicit. Before that, he was a research analyst at GiveWell.

He received a B.A. in Chinese and education studies from Swarthmore College.

Pradyumna joins Elicit as an Evaluations Fellow from the National University of Singapore. He enjoys the caliber of Elician's thoughtfulness around decision making and is attracted by the agency of how AI helps humans in his work. He previously worked at the Government Technology Agency of Singapore.

Ian is a machine learning consultant working with Elicit's AI development efforts. Previously, he was a Staff Machine Learning Research Engineer at Alation, where he led the company's AI initiatives.

Before that, Ian worked in robotics at Fetch Robotics (acquired by Zebra), founded Embodied AI developing furry robot pets, and contributed to biologically inspired machine intelligence research at Numenta.

Edoardo is working on scalable iterated improvement. He is pursuing a PhD at King’s College in London, working on causality and safety guarantees for general purpose AI agents.

In the past, Edoardo worked as a machine learning engineer in a London hedge fund, and co-founded a startup working on decentralized voting.

Before Elicit, Spruce was a founder at Continuum, an LLM coding assistant that focused on creating and traversing knowledge graphs on large codebases.

Prior to that he worked on vehicle motion planning at Waymo as they first tested and launched in San Francisco.

John began their career as a Software Engineer at a coffee roasting startup in 2008. Several jobs later they improved education for millions at Khan Academy.

Now they're excited to improve cognition on a global scale at Elicit.

Charlie is an AI engineer who previously worked at Alto Pharmacy, building inventory management & fulfillment systems.

Panda is an infrastructure engineer with a focus on developer experience. Prior to joining Elicit he worked at Stripe to keep the financial infrastructure of the internet running, as well as building their early-stage language model tooling.

Before Stripe, Panda worked with Keysight Technologies designing the infrastructure and software necessary to operate a global high-tech hardware supply chain.

Luke is a software engineer who previously worked at the University of Utah’s Center for High Performance Computing, Xapio, FireID, and Google.

He holds a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Utah.

Justin is a machine learning engineer who previously worked on evaluations of international development projects.

He holds a PhD from Fordham University, where he specialized in the philosophy of mathematics.

Jake joined Elicit from AbanteAI where he developed remote async coding agents.

Before AbanteAI he worked at other tech companies including Google. He earned a masters in mathematics, focused on random matrix theory at the Ohio State University and earned a B.S. in Mathematics from UChicago.

Kev is an engineer building the systems that power search, agents, and data at scale. Before Elicit, he worked at SignalFire, Amazon Music, Dropbox, and Wealthfront. He holds a BS in CS from Harvey Mudd College and an MS in ML from Georgia Tech.

Ethan was previously a founding engineer at Goodword where he worked on AI to cultivate human connection, after several years as a senior engineer and tech lead at growth-stage SaaS companies. He came to engineering by way of motion graphics, animation, video, and music, and holds a masters in Jazz Composition.

Zach is a Machine Learning Engineer who, before Elicit, Zach worked at SoundHound AI and Optoro on LLM training and reinforcement learning, model architectures, and optimization. He holds an M.S. in Data Science from New York University.

Based in London for more than five years, Isabella built the venture-focused book at AlphaSights in Europe and later worked with VC clients globally at Affinity and Specter.

She has a penchant for sudoku and dachshund-friendly road trips.

Prior to Elicit, Jonathan was a consultant at McKinsey & Company focused on growth strategy for education and public sector institutions. Before McKinsey, Jonathan worked in investment banking at Perella Weinberg Partners.

Jonathan received a B.S. in Finance from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Before Elicit, Shahid worked as a researcher at GiveWell, an engineer at Our World in Data and Snowflake, and founded a conversational AI startup.

Xiangxu is a PhD scientist trained in chemistry and biophysics. He has helped launch novel single cell multi-omics and DNA sequencing technologies, widely adopted across modalities in biopharma research and discovery. More recently he has built and led strong commercial teams in life science software companies like Benchling and Kaleidoscope, and helped hundreds of scientific teams with digital transformation. Xiangxu received his PhD from University of California, Los Angeles and is based out of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Sheena is a GTM lead at Elicit. Before joining, she built out go-to-market functions at several startups across life sciences, healthcare, and education. She has also held roles at Slack, CSIRO and more. She holds a Master’s in Business from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Science with a specialization in biology.

In her free time, she can be found underwater with a scuba tank strapped to her back.

Prem is Elicit's founding product marketer. Before Elicit, Prem led product marketing at Benchling and Abio Technologies, bringing deep experience in positioning and scaling tools for scientific workflows. Earlier in his career, he was a management consultant at Navigant and an R&D scientist at Allergan and deCode Chemistry. With a career spanning R&D science to product marketing for scientific tools, Prem joined Elicit to help life sciences organizations bring the same rigor to evidence synthesis that they bring to the science itself. Prem holds an MBA from University of California, Berkeley, an MS from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and a B.Pharm from the University of Mumbai.

Harry is the GTM Lead for EMEA at Elicit, focused on bringing rigorous AI-powered research to life sciences teams across the region. Before Elicit, Harry was at PatSnap, where he helped R&D, IP, and business development teams surface competitive and scientific intelligence across their pipelines. Prior to that, he helped build out the GTM and sales motion at Cledara, a SaaS spend management platform. Harry holds a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Aberdeen, which means he speaks his customers' language.

Meia is a versatile operations leader with 10+ years of project management experience spanning government agencies, nonprofits, startups, and her own design business. She graduated in the pioneering class of Sustainable Environmental Design from UC Berkeley.

Sarah is a customer experience and usability advocate and program manager. Before Elicit, she led the world's first calcium-based CO2 removal pilot project for Planetary, developed product operations systems at Yellow Dog, and led customer experience initiatives at Help Scout and Meet Edgar.

Sarah holds an M.S. in Software Engineering and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Drexel University.

Laura is the Talent Acquisition Lead at Elicit. She's built recruiting programs at AI and data startups across her career, including Looker, and Weights & Biases. She brings a focus on aligning top talent to the business's highest needs and believes that a great candidate experience is a core part of how you hire well.