Aida Baradari
Founder & physicist building human-augmentation hardware and software
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Joined October 2025
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Summary
Leader and founder in humanâaugmentation: Aida coâfounded Augmentation Lab, a studentârun 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 â bridging philosophy, design, and engineering. augmentationlab+2
Technical researcher with peerâreviewed contributions: She has authored/coâauthored experimental research in optics/quantumâphotonics (listed on INSPIRE/ORCID and a Nature Communications contribution) and participates in interdisciplinary HCI and augmentation research while at Harvard. inspirehep+2
Handsâon maker and engineer: Public GitHub repositories and project writeups (ESP32 projects, RL on cyrâwheel, softârobotics, AR/ML controllers for LimbX) show practical experience across embedded hardware, robotics, AR interfaces, and machineâlearningâbased 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 â especially encouraging girls and young women into STEM. lokalplus
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Openâsource wearable AI â From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2044)
January 1, 2024A speculative essay (Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize entry) coâauthored with DĂźnya Baradari imagining the future and ethical/social dimensions of openâsource wearable AI and hardware residencies.
A thin film lithium niobate nearâinfrared platform for multiplexing quantum nodes
January 1, 2024Coâauthor on a research article (Nature Communications) describing a nearâinfrared thinâfilm lithium niobate platform aimed at multiplexing quantum networking nodes â indicates contributions to experimental optics/quantum-photonics research.