JOPRO
People
JOPRO brings together researchers, builders, and practitioners across institutions and disciplines. Our work is the work of a network — people doing things now alongside the broader community of fellows, alumni, and past contributors.
Team
Active across our working groups, programs, and projects.
Jesse Parent
Founder & Director
JOPRO
Bradly Alicea
Senior Advisor
OREL · UI Urbana-Champaign
Jennifer Jiang
Program Lead, Executive Advisor
Simmons University
Morgan Hough
Senior Advisor
OREL · frontiertower · NeuroTechX
Avery Lim
Program Co-Lead
Molly A. Kluck
DigiNEST, SET
Arnav Satish
Research Intern: Data x Direction
UC Davis
Karina Zambina
Research Intern: Data x Direction
UC San Diego
Hadasa Bogatean
MHPP, Plot Twisters
Ava Stabile
Research Intern: Data x Direction
Bryn Mawr
Non-Resident Fellows & Contributors
Tlamelo Makati
Visiting Scholar: Data x Direction
Technological University Dublin
Cat Chang
Contributor: DigiNEST
Plot Twisters
Srini Seethapathy
UC Launch Accelerator
HEXR · UC Berkeley
S. Hussain Ather
Senior Contributor: OREL, DevoWorm
JSI · Georgia Tech · University of Toronto
Sugi Venugeethan
UC Launch Accelerator
HEXR · Maestro Tech
Mehul Arora
Senior Contributor: GSoC
OREL
Sarrah Bastawala
Senior Contributor: GSoC
OREL · VJTI
Suroush Bastani
Research Assistant
DevoWorm · OREL · University of New Brunswick
Vidhi Rohira
Senior Contributor: GSoC
OREL · VJTI
Young-Kyung Kim
Affiliate Researcher
Plot Twisters · MIT
Alumni & Past Contributors
Researchers and practitioners who have been part of JOPRO's working groups, mentoring cohorts, and partner programs over the years. For program-specific cohorts (GSoC, summer interns), see the relevant program archives.
Amaris Arias
Research Intern
University at Albany, SUNY
Lalith Baru
Project Contributor
OREL · IIITH
Samantha Carollo
Research Intern
University at Albany, SUNY
Himanshu Chougule
Project Contributor
OREL · VJTI
Daniella Cialfi
Project Lead
OREL · Active Inference Institute
Mainak Deb
Project Contributor
DevoWorm · AVVU
Mayukh Deb
Affiliate Researcher
DevoWorm · AVVU
Stefan Dvoretskii
Project Lead
OREL · TU Munich · DTU
Jayadratha Gayen
Project Contributor
OREL · IIITH
Ziyi Gong
Project Contributor
OREL · Duke University
Ankit Grover
Project Lead
Google · OREL · KTH
Ankit Gupta
Project Contributor
OREL · IIT Kharagpur
Krishna Katyal
Project Contributor
OREL · SMVD University
Wataru Kawakami
Project Contributor
DevoWorm · Kyoto University
Jiahang Li
Project Contributor
DevoWorm · Hong Kong Polytechnic
Karan Lohaan
Project Contributor
DevoWorm · AVVU
N.T. Love
Research Assistant
OREL
Brian McCorkle
Project Lead
University at Albany, SUNY
Sushmanth R. Mereddy
Project Contributor
DevoWorm · Amrita University
Vrushali Nandurkar
Project Contributor
OREL · IIT Madras
Amanda Nelson
Project Lead
University of Michigan · Western Mighican University
A. R. Ordis
Affiliate Researcher
Columbia University
Harikrishna Pillai
Project Contributor
DevoWorm · AVVU
R. V. Rajagopalan
Project Contributor
OREL · AVV
Valeria Schnake
Visiting Scholar
University of Chile
Anusha Sharma
Visiting Scholar
Dana–Farber Cancer Institute · Boston University
Shruti R.V. Singh
Project Contributor
OREL · SMVD University
Ujjwal Singh
Project Contributor
DevoWorm · IIT Delhi
Minh Tran
Research Assistant
General Dynamics · UCLA
Vinay Varma
Project Contributor
DevoWorm · AVVU
Anna Wang
Research Assistant
University of Waterloo
Jenny Liu Zhang
Affiliate Researcher
Plot Twisters · University of Edinburgh