Felix Sosa
Chief Executive Officer at Thinking About Thinking, Inc
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolFelix Sosa is a computational cognitive scientist and AI engineer with nine years of cross-disciplinary experience bridging cognitive science, machine learning, and evolutionary computation. Trained at Harvard and MIT (Harvard Prize Fellow, CBMM), he has led research on human-like learning, mechanistic interpretability, and program synthesis at institutions including Google DeepMind, MIT-IBM, and Advaita Capital, and now serves as CEO of a stealth AI startup while advising and vetting AI investments. His work spans theory and practice—from evolving neural encodings and DNA-based computation in early research to applied LLM limitations and automated software engineering at DeepMind—reflecting a rare blend of cognitive theory and production-facing AI. Felix runs a live coding and reading group on Twitch, emphasizing community-facing pedagogy as much as high-impact research.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Programming Languages Summer School Computer Science, Programming Languages Summer School Computer Science at University of OregonBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Central FloridaAdvanced Research Training Brains Minds and Machines, Advanced Research Training Brains Minds and Machines at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAdvanced Research Trainin Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning, Advanced Research Trainin Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning at Canada Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) & Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Cognitive Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Cognitive Science at Harvard University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (18)
genetic-algorithm10
neuroevolution10
hyperneat10
evolutionary-computation10
evolution10
neat10
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mechanical-turk8
pdf8
artificial-intelligence8
python7
deep-learning6
amazon6
pytorch6
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
acmatucfsigai/HackPack
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:29 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
hackpack
flxsosa/DeepHyperNEAT
Feb 2018 - Sep 2021
A public python implementation of the DeepHyperNEAT system for evolving neural networks. Developed by Felix Sosa and Kenneth Stanley. See paper here: https://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/papers/sosa_ugrad_report18.pdf
Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 7 months
brainevolutionpythonneuroevolutionevolutionary-computation
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