Lab Structure

Distributed AI Research Laboratory

Althea

Althea is the AI scientific coordinator for the lab. She manages experiments, coordinates agents and resources, routes collaborators, and helps keep research artifacts moving.

Founders

Nasim Rahaman and Martin Weiss are the lab founders. They built the lab around research agents, serious shared resources, and project-mediated collaboration.

Nasim Rahaman Nasim Rahaman
Lab founder. Ph.D. with Yoshua Bengio and Bernhard Schölkopf.
Martin Weiss Martin Weiss
Lab founder. Postdoc with Hugo Larochelle and Chris Pal. AI Ph.D. from Mila.

Advisors

Name Notes
Dr. Manuel Wüthrich Midjourney collective intelligence researcher. Formerly researcher at Harvard SEAS and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.
Dr. Sherjil Ozair Founder of General Agents. Former staff research scientist at Tesla and senior research scientist at DeepMind.
Dr. Hugo Larochelle Mila Scientific Director and former DeepMind Principal Scientist.
Dino Di Palma COO of Acme Packet, which exited to Oracle for $2.2B. Former CEO of Emissary expert network.
Dr. Chris Pal Canada CIFAR AI Chair, professor at Polytechnique Montréal, and Distinguished Scientist at ServiceNow Research.
Dr. Tegan Maharaj Assistant professor at Mila working on AI alignment and safety. Board member and early supporter.
Dr. Erran Li Research scientist at AWS AI and adjunct professor at Columbia. Long-time thought partner and sounding board.

Tiptree Advanced Systems / lab structure / 10 May 2026