{"slug": "emergent-ventures-winners-54th-cohort", "title": "Emergent Ventures winners, 54th cohort", "summary": "Emergent Ventures has awarded grants to 16 winners in its 54th cohort, including researchers in quantum computing, a 16-year-old studying LLM user interactions, and a Stanford scientist pursuing a cure for her own rare disease. The recipients, ranging from teenagers to professionals across multiple countries, will pursue projects in fields such as exoplanet discovery, AI filmmaking, and economics education.", "body_md": "# Emergent Ventures winners, 54th cohort\n\n[Kenny Guo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennykguo/), [Krish Chhajer](https://www.krishchhajer.com/),[ Luthira Abeykoon Mudiyansela](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QRdoOHoAAAAJ&hl=en), Toronto, quantum computing.\n\n[Jolie Gan](https://www.joliegan.com/), Calgary/SF, a publication on science and meta-science.\n\n[Hudson Mitchell-Pullman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hudson-mitchell-pullman-5bbb18318/), 16, San Diego, how users interact with LLMs to learn.\n\nAdnan Manna, 17, Amman, Jordan, finding exoplanets.\n\n[Heloise Hoffman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/heloiseh/), Stanford, biomedical research to cure her own rare disease.\n\n[M.F. Libano-Monteiro](https://mfsdlm98.github.io/), Portugal/LSE, economics education through video.\n\n[Scott Ellis](https://x.com/somebobcat8327), Mississauga, Ontario, making movies with AI.\n\n[Adrian Martinez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/theadrianm/), 17, Mission Viejo, CA, math, education.\n\n[Aadil Ali](https://sfalexandria.com/about/), San Francisco, [biographies of young achievers](https://sfalexandria.com/posts/).\n\n[Chandler Reilly](https://www.chandlerreilly.com/), Denver, [Substack on Denver and its economics](https://reillychandler.substack.com/).\n\n[Jeremy Kingsley](https://x.com/jeremynicolas), London, AI, podcasting and Substack.\n\nMichelle Lin, 15, Mclean, VA, curved-surface stitching on deformable materials, and algorithms.\n\n[Brunella Tipismana](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tipismanab/), general career support, writing, Peru/New Haven/NYC.\n\n[Theo Cross-Zamirski](https://www.linkedin.com/in/theo-cross-zamirski/), Cambridge, UK, platform to power math education.\n\n[Beatrice Erkers](https://www.linkedin.com/in/beatrice-erkers/), Stockholm, progress ideas in Sweden.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/emergent-ventures-winners-54th-cohort", "canonical_source": "https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/05/emergent-ventures-winners-54th-cohort.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=emergent-ventures-winners-54th-cohort", "published_at": "2026-05-25 04:20:18+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-25 15:12:16.539333+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-startups", "ai-research", "large-language-models", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Kenny Guo", "Krish Chhajer", "Jolie Gan", "Hudson Mitchell-Pullman", "Adnan Manna", "Heloise Hoffman", "Scott Ellis", "Adrian Martinez"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/emergent-ventures-winners-54th-cohort", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/emergent-ventures-winners-54th-cohort.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/emergent-ventures-winners-54th-cohort.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/emergent-ventures-winners-54th-cohort.jsonld"}}