Phillip Alvelda
Managing Partner | Brainworks Ventures, Chairman | Infinite Entertainment, AI & Media technology visionary since 1988
About Phillip
Dr. Alvelda is an experienced AI technology innovator, entrepreneur, and investor who has created several industry-defining companies across a career that started at NASA in 1986, designing spacecraft sensors and pioneering neural computation and AI algorithms and applications.
Dr. Alvelda is the Managing Partner of Brainworks Ventures, a native-AI ventue capital fund with a charter to invest in native-AI startups. He is also the chairman of Infinite Entertainment, a company revolutionizing feature film, TV, and interactive media production.
Prior to Infinite, Dr. Alvelda was the founding CEO of next-gen clinical diagnostics company Medio Labs, which applied the latest AI technologies to address the pandemic. The diagnostic company spun out of Dr. Alvelda’s AI company incubator, the Brainworks Foundry. The Foundry grew out of Dr. Alvelda’s stint in the Obama Administration's DARPA | Biological Technologies Office where he developed national-scale R&D programs and technologies at the intersection of AI and neuroscience, where he catalyzed the Brain-Machine Interface Industry.
Prior to Medio Labs, Brainworks, and DARPA, Dr. Alvelda was the founding CEO of MobiTV, which launched the world's first live TV experience over mobile networks. For this work, Dr. Alvelda was awarded an Emmy, selected by Fast Company as the US's 15th most influential high-tech entrepreneur, and has received numerous other industry awards from AlwaysOn, CNET, Mobile Entertainment (One of the top 20 most influential New Media Executives), and Red Herring for innovation and market leadership. He is a regular invited speaker at media, telecom, and education industry events including the World Economic Forum where he was chosen as a "Technology Pioneer" in 2007.
Prior to MobiTV, Dr. Alvelda founded The MicroDisplay Corporation, a manufacturer of miniature displays for low cost HDTVs & VR headsets. Prior to MicroDisplay, Dr. Alvelda was a developer of spacecraft hardware and new AI & computing architectures at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he: designed and built ai-enhanced sensors that flew on the Space Shuttle and the Galileo and Magellan interplanetary spacecraft, and developed two new generations of brain-inspired AI systems for spacecraft sensing and control. Dr. Alvelda holds over 30 patents and patents-pending on a wide range of technologies, a technical Emmy Award, a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Cornell University, and Masters and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Experience
- Managing PartnerAug 2024 - Present · 11 mosCalifornia, United States · RemoteCurrent
Infinite Entertainment · Full-time
- ChairmanAug 2023 - Present · 1 yr 11 mosSan Frncisco Bay Area · HybridCurrent
- Board MemberOct 2012 - Present · 12 yrs 9 mosSan Francisco, CACurrent
A high-impact non-profit on a mission to bring a gigabit of bandwidth to every public school in America.
The Westminster Institute for Science Education
- Chairman and FounderOct 2006 - Present · 18 yrs 9 mosCurrent
www.wiseteachers.org. A non-profit company on a mission to reform STEM education in K-12 schools across America.
University of California, Berkeley · Part-time
- FacultyJan 2022 - Jun 2022 · 6 mosBerkeley, California, United States
Mentoring students in starting their own high-impact health-tech startup companies.
- ChairmanAug 2017 - Jun 2022 · 4 yrs 11 mos
Medio Labs is a technology-forward clinical diagnostic testing company that seeks to revolutionize the industry using next-gen DNA synthesis and sequencing. The company’s primary goal is to increase the breath of different diseases that can be detected in “Just One Test” and lower the cost of state-of-the-art diagnosis so much that anyone can afford to be tested any time, whether they have insurance or not.
- CEO.& ChairmanAug 2017 - Nov 2023 · 6 yrs 4 mos
Medio Labs is a pathology testing company that uses next-generation gene sequencing to deliver low-cost, fast-turn-around PCR tests for all Coronavirus variants. The company plans to apply these new AI-enhanced diagnostic technologies to a broad range of pathogens, dramatically reduce the cost of pathology testing, and radically expand access to the latest healthcare technologies.
- CEO & ChairmanJul 2017 - Nov 2023 · 6 yrs 5 mosArlington, Virginia
The Brainworks Foundry was an AI company incubator that created groundbreaking computer vision technology. The company's first service was based on the human retina and visual cortex to measure and manage individual, family, and workforce vital signs, CV-19 symptoms, and overall health using the Medio Smart Health web application. The Foundry then spun out a new company specifically to address the ongoing pandemic, Medio Labs, an AI-enhanced molecular diagnostic company that used Next-gen sequencing technologies to offer better-than-PCR COVID testing for schools at massive scale and low cost. Medio Smart Health COVID-19 Symptom and Vital Sign Tracker Home
- Member Board of TrusteesAug 2015 - Jan 2017 · 1 yr 6 mosWashington D.C. Metro Area
The Madiera School is a leading independent Boarding/Day high school for girls.
- Program ManagerDec 2014 - Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos
- Board of Directors MemberJan 2010 - Sep 2016 · 6 yrs 9 mosEmeryville, CA
An innovative product development company that runs the New York Rock Exchange! Buy stock certificates and own a piece of your favorite band! Buy low, sell high. Rock on!
- Founding CEO & ChairmanAug 2009 - Nov 2013 · 4 yrs 4 mosEmeryville, CA
Next-gen Broadband & Media
- Co-founder and Board memberMay 2007 - Jun 2010 · 3 yrs 2 mos
- CEO and ChairmanNov 1999 - May 2007 · 7 yrs 7 mos
- Founding CEO1999 - 2003 · 4 yrs
- Founding CEO & CTO1995 - 1999 · 4 yrs
- Postdoc1995 - 1995 · Less than a year
- Grad Student1991 - 1995 · 4 yrs
- Research Associate1991 - 1995 · 4 yrs
- Member Tech Staff1986 - 1989 · 3 yrs
- Member Technical Staff1986 - 1989 · 3 yrs
- Student1982 - 1986 · 4 yrs
Education
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPh.D., CS, EE Physics (MIT's AI Lab)1991 - 1995
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree and PhD, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (MIT's AI Lab)1991 - 1995
Activities and societies: Soccer, Ice Hockey, Judo instructor and club/team captain.
- Cornell UniversityBachelor's degree, Physics1983 - 1986
Grade: Undergraduate Activities and societies: Soccer, Judo club captain and coach.
- Westminster1973 - 1982
Skills
Developer Relations
Game Development
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