Phillip Cherner, MS (Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer) trained at MIT and the MIT Media Lab and has been working at the intersection of AI, embodied agents, and human computer interaction for nearly a decade. His master's research under former NASA Deputy Administrator Dr. Dava Newman built one of the earliest embodied LLM companions, presented at AGU, SIGGRAPH, and Davos. He spent five years at Microsoft, including time on the Responsible AI team.