Residency - Astera

We provide talented innovators with both salary and research budgets required to create high-impact public goods. Projects we support could take the shape of infrastructure, tools, standards, hardware, software, thought leadership, or wetware, as well as pre-commercial fundamental research that can enable progress across Astera’s key focus areas: Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, AI-enabled Life Sciences, and Open Science. We support projects before it’s clear whether they will one day become nonprofit organizations, for-profit companies, or one-off outputs in the public domain. We deliberately enter at the earliest stages, when unknowns are high, traditional funding sources fall short, and a small amount of catalytic support can generate the most new information. Rather than planning indefinitely, we believe the fastest path to understanding what’s worth building is to build it. The general expectation is that all work will be published openly and accessibly, in line with our

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• Yixiong Hao
• Harrison Qian