{"slug": "emergent-ventures-winners-59th-cohort", "title": "Emergent Ventures winners, 59th cohort", "summary": "Emergent Ventures, a fellowship program by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, announced its 59th cohort of winners, including 15-year-old Maximilian Kornstein from the Atlanta area, who is building AI agents and receiving general career support, and 16-year-old Shane Regan from Long Island, who is working on AI agents. The cohort spans projects such as autonomous vehicles in the UK, AI-driven meta-analyses, and biomedical startups, with winners from institutions including UC Berkeley, Harvard, and the London School of Economics.", "body_md": "# Emergent Ventures winners, 59th cohort\n\n[Tym Syrytczyk](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tym-s-5279061a8/), London, autonomous vehicles in the UK.\n\nShane Regan, Long Island, 16, AI agents.\n\n[Maximilian Kornstein](https://academy.openai.com/public/blogs/how-a-high-school-student-built-a-civil-rights-archive-with-chatgpt-2026-08-28), 15, Atlanta area, agents and general career support.\n\n[Irene Chen](https://irenechen.net/) and [Jessica Dai](https://www.jessicad.ai/), UC Berkeley, data on peptides use.\n\n[Evan Warfel](https://www.evanwarfel.com/), Bay Area, updated meta-analyses through AI.\n\n[Daniel Dominguez Gomez](https://unu.edu/biolac/experts/daniel-dominguez-gomez), biomedical think tank for Mexico.\n\n[Malhaar Agrawal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/malhaar-agrawal-b805771a9/), U Penn., prediction markets and clinical trials.\n\n[Andrei Russel Ismael](https://seas.harvard.edu/person/andrei-russel-ismael), Harvard, biomedical start-up.\n\n[Benedict Springbett](https://www.linkedin.com/in/benedict-springbett/), London, conference on the importance of legal issues for UK growth.\n\nMetin Metin, Izmir, Turkey, 15, AI and brain organoid electrophysiology.\n\n[Ben Vyshedskiy](http://benvyshedskiy.com/), Harvard, biology podcast.\n\n[Afra Wang](https://afra.work/), Bay Area, podcast and study of Chinese AI.\n\n[Joe Hazell](https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/jonathon-hazell), LSE, AI and macroeconomics.\n\n[Anne Arno](https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0G4D3R9KQ/about?ccs_id=d1c4b51d-13ad-4038-9f5e-f941ce7dba8a), Krakow, writing and biography.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/emergent-ventures-winners-59th-cohort", "canonical_source": "https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/09/emergent-ventures-winners-59th-cohort.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=emergent-ventures-winners-59th-cohort", "published_at": "2026-09-07 04:32:31+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-07 04:56:02.415600+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "autonomous-vehicles", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Emergent Ventures", "Mercatus Center", "George Mason University", "Maximilian Kornstein", "Shane Regan", "UC Berkeley", "Harvard", "London School of Economics"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/emergent-ventures-winners-59th-cohort", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/emergent-ventures-winners-59th-cohort.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/emergent-ventures-winners-59th-cohort.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/emergent-ventures-winners-59th-cohort.jsonld"}}