Joel Dietz is a multidisciplinary systems architect and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience building bridges between bioelectricity, morphogenesis, AI, and collective intelligence from Palo Alto. He directs Bioelectricity Nexus and Cooperative Futures Institute while developing platforms like Neurocompute and ProbKnow to translate biological signaling principles into computational architectures and tools for scientific collaboration. Joel’s background spans early contributions to Ethereum and decentralized systems, strategic partnerships in finance and metaverse governance, and academic research roles at MIT, giving him rare fluency across startups, research labs, and institutional stakeholders. Known for blending poetic curiosity (fractals, morphospace, artificial life) with rigorous engineering, he focuses on emergent coordination, long-horizon simulation, and infrastructure for cooperative AI. An organizer and lecturer, he helps make complex interdisciplinary fields legible to engineers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Brown University
Computer Science, Computer Science at Arcadia University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.A., M.A. at University of Pennsylvania
Mandarin Chinese / Religion, Mandarin Chinese / Religion at Harbin Institute of Technology
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