Systems manipulate what makes you human. We study it.
About the Lab
Every institution you move through optimizes for predictability. School. Work. Medicine. Social infrastructure. None of them are designed around the part of you that makes you distinct. That fraction, the variance, gets expensive to maintain. Most people don't notice it narrowing. They just stop.
Polarity Lab is a research institution built around that variance. What it is, how systems act on it, and what becomes possible when that process is understood.
The Work
Film Therapeutics
When the performance layer that systems have shaped goes quiet, something underneath becomes visible. AVDP engineers the conditions for that to happen.
Cognitive Profiling
Preference is behavior. Beneath what you say you like is a pattern of how you actually process. WAXFEED is built to read it.
AI Honesty
When a clinical AI is trained to optimize for approval, it learns to route correct answers through acceptable ones. Integrity Delta measures that gap. We call the result Polite Malpractice.
Community Discovery
Discovery infrastructure was built to surface what scales, not what's near you. Polarity GPS maps what gets hidden at the neighborhood level when it does.
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Brown University
Research PartnerPhilanthropic infrastructure for communities of color
Industry PartnerProfessional screenwriting tools for independent creators
CollaboratorThe Lab
Brown University · MetroWest Medical Center · St. Vincent's Hospital
Fourth-year medical student at Brown, beginning a diagnostic radiology residency at St. Vincent's Hospital. His research examines the conditions under which minds, systems, and environments suppress what they already know.
Brown University · Sociotechnical Systems and Wellbeing Lab
CS and Religious Studies student at Brown, Research Assistant in the Sociotechnical Systems and Wellbeing Lab. Leads technical infrastructure and creative direction across all lab programs, and is the founder of WAXFEED.
Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa · BIPOC Business Society
Finance and Business Technology Management student at the University of Ottawa. Leads strategy and partnerships, shaping how the lab's work reaches every audience it needs to reach.
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Have work that studies what systems do to what makes people distinct? The lab provides the team, infrastructure, and model to make it compound.
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Researcher, engineer, filmmaker, designer. If your skills fit what a project needs, there is a role and a defined stake in what it produces.
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