Team

The people behind TopoRobotics.

A small founding team with backgrounds in machine learning, mathematics, and production systems, supported by advisors who have built companies before.

Executives

Founders

Jason Carlson

Jason Carlson

Chief Executive Officer

Jason is an AI research engineer and a visiting robotics researcher at NYU. He spent five years building and deploying large-scale machine learning and reinforcement learning systems in production at Amazon and AppLovin, and has independently published four AI papers. He holds an M.A. in Mathematics and B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Arizona State University, with graduate coursework in analysis, topology, and abstract algebra.

Belal Said

Belal Said

Chief Technology Officer

Belal has spent eight years in software engineering, most recently as a founding engineer at New Gen. He previously built low-latency trading platforms and trading algorithms at Two Sigma and Amazon.

Advisors

Founding advisors

Ross Newman

Ross Newman

Founding Advisor

Ross is the founder and CEO of Innovative Health Research, a clinical research company based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Over more than three decades in healthcare he has established and managed clinical study sites across Phoenix, Walnut Creek, and Las Vegas, co-founded the Osteoporosis Resource Center, and developed the Immunology Reference Laboratory. Earlier in his career he was a West Coast correspondent for the investment bank Allen & Co., directing capital into early biotech companies spun out of UCSF and Stanford. He studied at UC Berkeley.