The core team is composed of experts from developmental and cognitive psychology, neuroscience, biomedical engineering, automation, computer science, and mathematics.
Doctor Michael Lamport Commons
Role: President
Michael Lamport Commons was born in 1939 in Los Angeles and grew up in Hollywood. Commons holds two B.A.s from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), one in mathematics, the other in psychology. He earned his M.A., and M.Phil. and in 1973 received his Ph.D., in psychology from Columbia University. Currently, he is Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School), and Director of the Dare Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Doctor Sofia Ribeirinho Leite
Role: Co-Founder and Lead Researcher
Sofia Ribeirinho Leite is majored in clinical psychology with a Master in cognitive neuroscience, and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Porto with a Fulbright Grant at Harvard Medical School. As her Ph.D. work, Sofia Leite initiated the development of the Hierarchical Stacked Neural Networks (HSNN), after which she was elected the Vice-President of Dare Association. Movement psychologist at RELIB, Dancer and Arts performer.
Professor António Ramos da Silva
Role: Principal Researcher in Robotics
António Ramos da Silva has a degree in mechanical engineering, a Master in automation and a Ph.D. in Mechanical engineering from the University of Porto. He is an auxiliar Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Automation at FEUP, an integrated Researcher at the Biomechanics group from INEGI, integrated at LAETA – Associated Laboratory of Energy, Transports and Aeronautics. The main areas of interest are Automation, Evolutionary Neural Networks, Learning Models, Dynamic Modeling of Systems and Automatic Control.
Professor Bruno Mota
Role: Principal Researcher in NeuroEvolution
Bruno Mota has a graduation and Master in Physics at UFMG, PhD in Physics (cosmic topology), and postdoc in comparative neuroanatomy at CCS/UFRJ. Bruno is a Professor at the Physics Institute at UFRJ since 2013, and the director of theLaboratory of Theoretical Biology and Experimental Mathematics, at the Physics Institute, UFRJ. Cyclist and Cook.