Our team
TAICU is a small lab. The work spans the psycholinguistics of human-AI conversation, the systems that make persistent context possible, and the policy questions those systems raise.
Aryan Shah
Co-founder and Psycholinguistics Expert
Works on the psycholinguistics of human-AI conversation: how people read intention, warmth, and meaning into machine-generated language over long stretches of contact.
Waris Reshi
Co-founder and chief scientist
Works on the systems side of relational AI, including the memory architecture and messaging interfaces that HUG is built on.
Basit Ali
AI Policy & Regulatory Counsel
Advises on AI policy and the regulatory questions raised by systems that retain personal context and form ongoing relationships with the people who use them.