Our Story

We started Inspirit AI to inspire students at an early age to understand and apply this powerful technology to improve the world. Our team consists of alumni and graduate students from Stanford University who have done cutting-edge research, and have founded several AI startups that have been acquired by large tech corporations. We hope to bring the most recent developments in Artificial Intelligence from our experiences with courses, labs, and ventures to empower high school students globally.

Inspirit Instructor Varsha Sandadi (MIT Student) shares how AI can transform different domains and industries.

Meet Our Curriculum and Instruction Team

Build next-generation products and companies

Educate students around the world

Improve medical diagnoses

Advance social good

And so much more!

Understand the human brain

AI + Teaching and Education

Our team uses AI to educate students across the world…

Brianna Chrisman
High School Curriculum

Education: Stanford, PhD student in Bioengineering
Yale, Bachelor’s in Biomedical Engineering

Experience: Works in Dennis Wall's lab in computational genomics, specifically related to evolutionary virology and structural genetic variation. Previously worked as a software engineer at Google.

John Cocjin
Curriculum Developer

Education: Stanford, Master’s in Bioengineering

Research: Developing data tools to analyze brain imaging data at National Institutes of Health and Stanford, spanning various neurological disorders, from epilepsy to memory disorders to Parkinson's.

Teaching: Coordinated curricula for several college courses, and has experience in tutoring elementary students through undergraduates, and special disabilities programs to accelerated programs.

Greta Farrell
Middle School Curriculum

Education: MIT, Bachelor’s in Mathematical Economics, Minor in Public Policy

Teaching: Has experience student-teaching in a variety of schools: urban, rural, suburban, as well as public, charter, private, and boarding. Before joining Inspirit as a curriculum developer, she taught middle and high school math from pre-algebra to pre-calculus and developed mastery-based curricula at the Khan Lab School.

AI + Business and Product Design

Our team uses AI to build next-generation products and companies…

Catherine Lu
AI Projects Advisor

Education: Stanford, Master’s in Computer Science
Stanford, Bachelor’s in Computer Science

Industry Experience: Investor at Spike Ventures, a VC firm that fundraises from and invests in Stanford alumni. Previously, Director of Product at NEA-backed Datavisor, an enterprise company offering an unsupervised ML fraud solution. Co-founded retail AI company Fancy That, which was acquired by Palantir in 2015.

Neal Jean
AI Projects Advisor

Education: Stanford, PhD in Electrical Engineering
Georgia Tech, Bachelor’s in EE Duke, Bachelor’s in Economics and Math

Industry Experience: Working on an AI focused startup aimed at enhancing workplace productivity.

Research: Using machine learning to tackle challenging problems in sustainability and healthcare with Stefano Ermon in the Stanford AI Lab.

Artem Trotsyuk
AI Projects Advisor

Education: Stanford, PhD in Bioengineering
Stanford, Master’s in Computer Science
UC Davis, Bachelor’s in Biology, Minors in Communication and Writing

Research: Using bioengineering tools coupled with artificial intelligence to improve wound healing outcomes in diabetic patients. Developing AI-powered smart bandages with a closed-loop system for personalized medicine.

AI + Social Good

Our team uses AI to advance social good…

Sarah Egler

Master’s in Computer Science | Stanford University

Studied computational neuroscience during her undergraduate career at University of Washington, Seattle and has a Master’s in Computer Science with a focus in AI from Stanford University. Currently working as a backend software engineer. In a previous role, worked on the safety team at Uber leveraged AI for things like face verification of drivers, crash detection, and more.

Nisheeth Ranjan

Master’s in Computer Science (AI) | Stanford | Bachelor’s in CS | Cornell

Currently the CTO of HoneyBee, a fin-tech startup in San Francisco. Previously co-founded IntroRocket and BrightFunnel and worked in engineering and management positions at Netscape, Liveops, and Trulia. Working on a book that explores the technology, people, and stories behind socially impactful Machine Learning projects around the world.

Saahil Jain

Master’s in CS | Stanford | Bachelor’s in CS and Economics | Columbia

Worked as a product manager at Microsoft on Office 365, where he improved the intelligence of data center operations at scale. Also particularly excited by the applications of AI to health care.

AI + Healthcare

Our team uses AI to improve medical diagnoses…

Peter Washington

PhD in Bioengineering, Master’s in Computer Science | Stanford University

Developing AI-powered mobile therapies for children with autism, using machine learning and crowdsourcing for automatic video-powered diagnosis of complex neuropsychiatric conditions, and using bioinformatics to determine the genetic causes of complex polygenic conditions.

Sharon Newman

PhD in Electrical Engineering | Stanford University

Increasing access to medical technologies in low resource settings, as well as working on biosensor devices for early detection of diseases using AI. As an instructor, she is always exploring new ways to reach out and impact more students, and loves to discuss new ideas with young and curious kids!

Sehj Kashyap

M.D. Candidate | Duke | Master’s in Biomedical Informatics | Stanford

Using data science to support innovations in public health. Sehj has also led health outcomes research and helped build Noora Health's technological and research infrastructure to remotely monitor its services and families’ health outcomes across India.

AI + Neuroscience

Our team uses AI to understand the brain…

Anna Sappington

Marshall Scholar | Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Biology | MIT

Anna was part of multiple AI labs at MIT including Aviv Regev’s lab and Sangeeta Bhatia’s lab. She has applied AI to genomics with the goal of mapping every cell in the human body.

Tyler Bonnen

Bachelor’s in Chemistry & Comparative Literature | Columbia University

Completed research fellowships in the Max-Planck Institute in Leipzig and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Uses biologically plausible computational models, neural data, and animal behavior to formalize the relationship between perception and memory.

Akshay Jagadeesh

PhD in Vision Science | Stanford University

Analyzing artificial neural networks and understanding what computations the human brain performs to give rise to perception. Helped design and teach several courses at UC Berkeley and Stanford ranging from computer vision to neurobiology to the science of meditation.

AI + Autonomy and Virtual Reality

Our team uses AI to perceive new realities…

Eric Bradford

Master’s and Bachelor’s in Computer Science | MIT

Applying AI to augmented and virtual realities to simplify the robot creation process. Has assisted in teaching MIT Professional Education courses in Data Science.

Kumar Ayush

Master’s in Computer Science | Stanford University | Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Engineering | IIT Kharagpur

Conducted research at the intersection of machine perception, learning, and reasoning, mainly from the perspective of vision.

Raunaq Bhattachryya

Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence | Stanford University | Master’s in Computer Science and Aerospace Engineering | Georgia Tech

Bringing techniques from Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to designing cutting edge autonomous systems. Conducted research on self-driving cars with Prof. Mykel Kochenderfer in the Stanford Intelligent Systems Lab.

Meet Our Programs Team

Adeesh Goel

Program Head

Education: Stanford University, Master’s in Management, Science, & Engineering
University of California, Berkeley, Bachelor’s in Business Administration & Economics

Adeesh leads development of artificial intelligence education at Inspirit AI, including partnering with several leading K12 schools across the world. Previously, he completed a Master’s in Management, Science & Engineering at Stanford University, with a focus on applied artificial intelligence. He also previously worked at Applied Predictive Technologies, a data science consulting for large Fortune 500 brands, to implement data-driven methods to enhance their impact.

Jared Greene

Director of Partnerships

Education: Harvard University, Bachelor’s in Literature
University of California, Berkeley and University of Cambridge, Graduate Studies

As Director of Partnerships, Jared builds global partnerships to bring AI education to educational organizations and schools worldwide. Jared is a lifelong educator who is passionate about positioning students for success in their future college and career endeavors. He received his Bachelor’s in English & American Literature and Language at Harvard University. He is interested in the intersection of AI and literature, particularly how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing literary analysis.

Maddie Bradshaw

Director of Product

Education: Harvard Graduate School of Education, Master’s in Technology, Innovation & Education
Stanford University, Bachelor’s in Science, Technology & Society

Maddie has helped oversee the development and implementation of programs and products at Inspirit AI. She interacts with students and families as both an instructor and a program advisor. Before joining the team, Maddie was a computer science and STEM teacher at a K12 independent school in Los Angeles. She is passionate about STEM education, project-based learning, and teaching.