Research lab
Vela Research and the University of Oxford
We quantify the unquantifiable, to predict the future.
Work with us research@thinkreasonlearn.com
Core Team
- Ben GriffinResearch Scientist · Oxford PhD
- Yuhang YeResearch Scientist · Oxford PhD
- Rick ChenResearch Scientist · Oxford PhD
- Jack PreuveneersResearch Scientist · Oxford PhD
- Felix CrabtreeResearch Scientist · Oxford PhD
- Xianling MuResearch Scientist · Oxford Mathematics
- Afriyie Kwesi SamuelMember of Technical Staff · key open-source contributor
- Aaron Ontoyin YinMember of Technical Staff · Math Olympiad
- Zakari SalifuMember of Technical Staff · Kaggle AI Master
- Kelvin AmoabaMember of Technical Staff · key open-source contributor
- Fuat AlicanCo-founder and General Partner · Economics PhD · ex-Citi
- Aikins LaryeaMember of Technical Staff · key open-source contributor
- Yigit IhlamurCo-founder and General Partner · ex-Google, Oxford
Collaborators
- John DrzikFormer President of Marsh · Princeton PhD
- Ugur KoyluogluPartner and Vice Chair, Oliver Wyman · Princeton PhD
- Joseph Ternaskyex-Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple
Contributors 57Researchers from Oxford and beyond who built the work behind the labShow all
- Mirsaid AbdullahOxfordIntegrating knowledge graphs, community detection, and linear models for outlier detection
- Abdullah AbidOxfordAutomated market segmentation with vector space clustering
- Satyam AgarwalOxfordSearch engine-based sourcing agent
- Sinan AkcaliOxfordWord embeddings as feature generation
- Yusuke AtsutaOxfordBERT-powered automated market map
- Bogdan Andrei BabanOxfordMulti-ML model and sensitivity analysis
- Anna BatorOxfordPerformance of structured and reasoned features
- Joel BeazleyOxfordStability-aware integration of LLM-derived feature families
- Matthew BuckleyOxfordIdea clustering
- Chloe ChanOxfordImpact of social interactions
- Zhaozhou ChenOxfordInvestor segmentation with graph-based modeling
- Ian CheungOxfordSBERT-based similarity search
- Julia DabrowskaOxfordMarket-focused reflective LLMs for idea prediction
- Yashkanwar DadwalOxfordFounder network score
- Prabhav DesaiOxfordLarge founder model v0
- Hristo EfimovOxfordKnowledge graph agent
- Zejun FengOxfordMirrored verification, multi-agent rating
- Xun HuOxfordGNNs for startup prediction
- Leona Renard KouameOxfordSourcing agent for YC
- Mihir KumarOxfordRare-event prediction, ensemble learning
- Ethan LiOxfordAlpha decay
- Hao LiOxfordLLM-based feature engineering
- Nathan LiOxfordOptimal stop-loss
- Xingzhe LiOxfordIncumbent priority identification for competition
- Johnny LiangOxfordAutoresearch on VCBench
- Yunqi LiangOxfordDeal-level correlation, portfolio construction
- Yizhang LouOxfordMulti-agent VC
- Chun Hin MaOxfordDescription-driven predictions
- Anirudh Jaidev MaheshOxfordVerifiable reasoning, LLM code generation
- Tom MarsdenOxfordFounder trajectory
- Eduard OravkinOxfordPageRank for investors
- Te PeiOxfordHierarchical clustering, founder personas
- Aldair PetroniliaOxfordFoundations of founder prediction with EDA and ML
- Julianna PiskorzOxfordInvestor similarities
- Jude PophamOxfordFounder archetypes with Graph Neural Networks
- Ashmit RaoOxfordDisambiguating reasoned features with an option to pick an in-between decision
- Jimmy RippinOxfordCrunchbase-focused sourcing agent
- Jirko RubruckOxfordTemporal features
- Ipek SahbazogluOxfordKnowledge graph with graph convolutional networks
- Kensei SakamotoOxfordProbabilistic modeling of venture capital portfolio outliers
- Luka SecilmisETH Zurich & EPFLBERT-based idea prediction
- Aarav ShrimankerOxfordMulti-layer probabilistic pattern mining with adaptive confidence networks
- Sameer SinghUniversity of MichiganReasoning-based predictions
- Moncef SlimaniOxfordUnsupervised explained ensemble clustering model for founder persona characterization
- Grace SodunkeOxfordTime-machine features
- Liren SongOxfordWord2vec for the startup language
- Anushka SuyalOxfordExtended level segmentation
- Ayan VijaypurkarOxfordLLM-driven career growth analysis
- Hengyu WangOxfordNaive Bayes model with ML
- Junyan WangOxfordLLM-driven founding team synergies
- Peiren WangOxfordPosition sizing and autoresearch
- Xisen WangOxfordMulti-agent framework, SSFF
- Maximilian WestermannOxfordLLM-based feature discovery, CoFEE
- Sichao XiongOxfordGPTree, LLM-powered decision trees
- Cagan YanmazOxfordCo-investor modeling
- Raymond ZhaoOxfordInvestor-focused SVM
- Silei ZhuOxfordExplainable classification via fine-tuned LLM embeddings