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Frida E Polli, PhD

Founder

New York, New York, United States25 yrs 6 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Former Harvard and MIT neuroscientist
  • Founder of multiple AI-focused ventures
  • Instrumental in AI bias regulation
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and neuroscience, with a focus on ethical technology and innovation.

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Core Skills

Public SpeakingManagementResearch

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Analytical SkillsBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyCognitionCognitive NeuroscienceCognitive ScienceCross-functional Team LeadershipData AnalysisEntrepreneurshipExperimentationFinancial ModelingFundraisingLeadershipLife SciencesLifesciences

About

Former Harvard and MIT neuroscientist. Former VC-backed AI founder and CEO. Former AI policy maker (NYC “bias audit” law). Current AI enthusiast, investor, board advisor, mentor, author and incubator of my next idea. Lifelong technophile, optimist and over-committed mother of three.

Experience

Massachusetts institute of technology

Visiting Innovation Scholar

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · Hybrid

  • Beyond thrilled to be starting as a Visiting Innovation Scholar at MIT's new College of Computing to help launch a new AI center with Sendhil Mullanaithan focused on combining algorithms and human behavior! Could not be more excited to work on big challenges where humans and algorithms interact. More coming soon!

Rosalind ventures

Founder

Apr 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

  • Rosalind Franklin was an X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to understanding the structure of DNA yet was not recognized in the Nobel prize won by Watson and Crick in 1962. As a female founder, I experienced and saw first hand the likelihood that women in science/deep tech are overlooked by investors. Rosalind Ventures focuses on finding and funding those women! Please see media links for portfolio companies.

Alethia ai

Founder and CEO

Oct 2023Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

  • Alethia was founded to promote transparency in AI and technology.

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Advisory Board

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

World economic forum

3 roles

Global Future Council - Complex Risk

Sep 2022Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

Global Future Council - Education and Skills

Sep 2019Sep 2022 · 3 yrs

Technology Pioneer

Jun 2018Jun 2020 · 2 yrs

Harver

Chief Data Science Officer

Aug 2022Oct 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

Fortune

Chief Executive Officer Initiative Working Group Member

Sep 2020Sep 2023 · 3 yrs

Public SpeakingResearchFundraisingAnalytical SkillsManagement

Entrepreneur media

100 Most Powerful Women

Aug 2020Aug 2020 · 0 mo

Ieee

Voting Member, AI Ethics Group

Jun 2020Sep 2024 · 4 yrs 3 mos

The washington post

Technology Expert

Jun 2019Jun 2021 · 2 yrs

Inc. magazine

Top 100 Female Founders

Jan 2019Jan 2019 · 0 mo

Public Speaking

Pymetrics (now harver)

CEO and co-founder

Sep 2013Aug 2022 · 8 yrs 11 mos · New York City, NY

  • pymetrics: a VC-backed AI startup using ML and behavioral science to modernize workforce decisions. Inc 5000 fastest growing company, Forbes AI 50 company, World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. Raised $89M in VC from Khosla Ventures, Workday, Salesforce, General Atlantic, etc. Flagship clients included Blackstone, BCG and UPS. Succeeded in accurately and without bias matching millions of job seekers w jobs. Instrumental in passing first in nation AI bias regulation. Successfully exited in 2022 to a strategic acquirer.

Startup leadership program

Fellow

Jan 2011Jan 2012 · 1 yr

Public Speaking

Mit $100k entrepreneurship competition

Life Science Track Winner

Sep 2010Jan 2010 · 4 mos

ResearchAnalytical SkillsManagement

Mit

Postdoctoral Fellow, Brain & Cognitive Sciences Department

Sep 2007Sep 2010 · 3 yrs · Cambridge, MA

  • Awards & Entrepreneurship
  • 2010 winner of Life Sciences Track (Aukera Therepeutics) in MIT 100K Entrepreneurship Competition.
  • Top 1% of postdoctoral fellows at MIT for winning multiple awards: NIH National Research Service Award ($120K); NARSAD Young Investigator Award ($60K); HST Catalyst Award ($80K).
  • Project Development & Execution
  • Created and led large-scale, multi-year, multi-site neuroimaging (MRI) project. Secured $260 K in funding for project. Designed all experiments & protocols. Hired & led 12 person cross-functional team. Devised & managed complex logistics of cross-site collaborations. Delivered complex dataset 1 year ahead of schedule.
  • Project selected as exemplar of personalized medicine by MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation in 2008.
  • Industry Experience
  • Initiated & successfully delivered industry collaboration to incorporate proprietary technology into MIT neuroimaging studies, including spearheading negotiations, and overseeing legal and contractual aspects.
  • Led MIT arm of first international industry collaboration to develop treatment biomarkers for depression.

Harvard medical school

Neuropsychology Intern

Sep 2006Aug 2007 · 11 mos

  • Integral part of cross-disciplinary treatment team: conducted neuropsychological assessment on adult patients (veterans) with complex psychiatric or medical conditions, and formulated comprehensive, actionable treatment plans.
ResearchAnalytical Skills

Harvard medical school and massachusetts general hospital

Doctoral Research Fellow

Jan 2001Jan 2006 · 5 yrs

  • Publications & Awards
  • Dissertation published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (2nd most-cited science journal).
  • 11 awards & fellowships, including NIH National Research Service Award & Harvard-wide award (2%).
  • 30+ other papers/talks, platform talk at 2nd largest neuroscience conference (1% acceptance rate).
  • Project Management
  • Managed 5-person cross-functional team overseeing 3 projects investigating cognitive functioning in healthy controls, as well as in schizophrenia & autism, using cutting-edge neuroimaging techniques.
ResearchAnalytical Skills

Boston university school of medicine

Research Assistant

Jan 1998Jan 2001 · 3 yrs

ResearchAnalytical Skills

Education

Harvard Business School

MBA

Jan 2010Jan 2012

Suffolk University

PhD

Jan 2001Jan 2007

Dartmouth College

BA — English; Postbaccalaureate premedical studies

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