JOSHUA BECK is our Chief Executive Officer. He lives in Los Angeles, CA. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Economics from Brown University. In a previous life, he worked at Susquehanna International Group pricing volatility options.

GLENN YU is our Chief Operating Officer. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. He holds an A.B. in English and Economics from Brown University. He is mainly concerned with design, especially the design of the Company.

KENNETH NOBLE was our third cofounder. He has since left to attend NYU School of Law but remains a trusted advisor. He holds an A.B. in English and Africana Studies from Brown University. This summer he begins work at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan as a summer associate.

MIA TEIXEIRA was our first employee. Early on, she convinced us that patent search was a linguistics problem, in large part. Mia lives in Somerville, MA. She holds a B.S. in Physics from MIT and M.A. in Linguistics from UCLA.

NORA MORIKAWA is a computational linguist. She lives in San Francisco, CA. She holds a B.A. in French and Anthropology from Hamilton College, an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Boston University, and a PhD in Linguistics from CUNY. Nora has two wonderful children, Astrid and Violet, who join us on calls from time to time.

DEBORAH WONG is a computational linguist. She lives in Los Angeles, CA. She holds a B.A. in Linguistics from UCL, an M.A. in Linguistics from Cambridge University, and a PhD in Linguistics from UCLA. Deb has a refined palate between her interests in tea, wine, cocktails, and food. When we go on retreat, Deb always picks where we eat.

JONATHAN BLANCHARD is our product director. He lives in New York, NY. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a M.S. in Civil Engineering from University of South Florida. He is in an extended competition with his father to see who can visit the most number of countries. He is currently at 53.

IAN FANSELOW is a software engineer. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from NYU. In November 2024, Ian published his first book “Worlds Apart”. We all read it for our company book club. It’s the first book in a series about two teenagers who have been abducted by aliens. The protagonist, Lora, is a lesbian. She must fight aliens to save her lover, Evelyn. It remains to be seen whether Lora’s feelings will be reciprocated.

KYLE COX is a machine learning engineer. He lives in Austin, TX. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics from UT Austin. In his free time he likes to tweak his NBA forecasting model.

QINGCHEN WANG is a machine learning scientist. He lives in Woodridge, NJ. He holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Biology from the University of British Columbia, a M.A. in Machine Learning from UCL, and a PhD in Machine Learning from University of Amsterdam. He is a Kaggle grandmaster. This is the highest rank that a user can achieve on Kaggle, a popular platform for data science and machine learning competitions.

BLAKE WILKEY is a machine learning scientist. He lives in Chattanooga, TN. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Harvard. Blake is a lifelong pianist and composer, with notable works performed by internationally renowned musicians like Tae Kim. Blake is currently composing the soundtrack for a video game, inspired by the music of Ghibli and of classic video games.

MEGAN LEVIN is a software engineer. She lives in co-op she started with several of her friends called “Horse House” in Somerville, MA. In her basement, she sometimes holds drag shows where she performs the character of Mr. Splooge. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science from MIT.

VICTOR WANG is our Director of Patents. He lives in Long Island. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and JD from Cardozo School of Law. As a former patent examiner, prosecutor, litigator, and professor, Victor has dedicated his life to patents.

ITALO NABUCO is a software developer. He lives in Teresina, Brazil He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the Federal Institute of Education Science and Technology of Maranhao in Brazil. Italo loves K-pop.

MATTHEW CZUBA is a computational linguist. He lives in Jersey City, NJ. He holds a B.A. in Linguistics and Mandarin from Marlboro College, a M.A. in Linguistics from Tsing Hua University, and a M.A. in Linguistics from UCLA. Matt is a practitioner of neigong (内功). In Chinese, neigong means "internal skill" or "internal power” and teaches the cultivation and refinement of internal energy (qi) through breathing exercises and movement.

JEFF BOOMER is our Director of Business Development. He lives in Providence, RI. He holds a B.A. in History and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia. On most weekends, Jeff can be found in his studio where he paints and exhibits color field paintings that depict algorithmic patent figures.