Aida Baradari
Founder & physicist building human-augmentation hardware and software
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Joined October 2025
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Summary
Leader and founder in human‑augmentation: Aida co‑founded Augmentation Lab, a student‑run R&D collective and residency that builds hardware and software exploring human augmentation (e.g., LimbX, Empathy Machine), organizes immersive residencies, and mentors other builders — bridging philosophy, design, and engineering. augmentationlab+2
Technical researcher with peer‑reviewed contributions: She has authored/co‑authored experimental research in optics/quantum‑photonics (listed on INSPIRE/ORCID and a Nature Communications contribution) and participates in interdisciplinary HCI and augmentation research while at Harvard. inspirehep+2
Hands‑on maker and engineer: Public GitHub repositories and project writeups (ESP32 projects, RL on cyr‑wheel, soft‑robotics, AR/ML controllers for LimbX) show practical experience across embedded hardware, robotics, AR interfaces, and machine‑learning‑based controllers. github+2
Community outreach and STEM advocacy: Early leadership and community work in Germany (Infotastic / Infotastic Academy) and awards for engagement demonstrate a continued interest in outreach — especially encouraging girls and young women into STEM. lokalplus
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Open‑source wearable AI — From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2044)
January 1, 2024A speculative essay (Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize entry) co‑authored with Dünya Baradari imagining the future and ethical/social dimensions of open‑source wearable AI and hardware residencies.
A thin film lithium niobate near‑infrared platform for multiplexing quantum nodes
January 1, 2024Co‑author on a research article (Nature Communications) describing a near‑infrared thin‑film lithium niobate platform aimed at multiplexing quantum networking nodes — indicates contributions to experimental optics/quantum-photonics research.