An institute for the human condition.
About the Lab
The problems accumulating fastest are the ones people can feel before they can name them. They require the depth of academic research and the speed of commercial development. Both exist. They rarely work in the same room.
Polarity Lab is that room. What gets studied reaches people. What reaches people has been studied. Everyone who makes that possible has a stake in what it produces.
If you've felt these problems before you could name them, watched the solutions being built miss the point, and wondered why nobody was building what clearly needed to exist, you already know what this is. You've been waiting for it.
The Work
Film Therapeutics
Watching someone face death honestly might be the closest thing we have to therapy for our own. This documentary series tests that idea one conversation at a time.
Cognitive Profiling
Your listening history has a cognitive signature you've never seen. WAXFEED surfaces it while you discover new music. The platform and the research are the same thing.
AI Honesty
Clinical AI will change a correct diagnosis if you push back hard enough. This study measures how often, across 1,000 real chest radiographs, and builds the case for regulators to act.
Community Discovery
A location game where every move you make draws a live map of how well your city connects people to opportunity. The players are also the researchers. The map belongs to everyone.
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The Lab
Brown University · MetroWest Medical Center · St. Vincent's Hospital
Theodore is a fourth-year medical student at Brown University, completing a transitional year at MetroWest Medical Center before beginning a residency in diagnostic radiology at St. Vincent's Hospital. His research examines how environments shape what the mind suppresses, from the sensory inputs that govern social behavior in the brain to the training incentives that cause clinical AI systems to override their own correct reasoning. He was an undergraduate researcher in the MIT Synthetic Neurobiology Group under Dr. Ed Boyden, studying zebrafish social behavior as a whole-brain model of sensory input to behavioral action, and trained at UMBC under Dr. Rachel Brewster as a Meyerhoff, HHMI, and MARC/URISE Scholar. He has co-authored work in Molecular Cell, a bioengineering simulation study presented at SMFM 2026, and patents in brain-modeled knowledge graphs and cognitive biometric authentication. He founded Polarity Lab in 2025.
Brown University · Sociotechnical Systems and Wellbeing Lab
Shadrack is a student of Computer Science and Religious Studies at Brown University ('27) and a Research Assistant in the Sociotechnical Systems and Wellbeing Lab under Dr. Diana Freed. He previously conducted survey research on conditions in which youth thrive at the Character Lab. At Polarity Lab, he leads technical infrastructure, product design, and creative direction across all active research programs. He is the producer of A Very Distant Perspective, co-founder of Blueno, and founder of WAXFEED. He co-authored patents in brain-modeled knowledge graphs and cognitive biometric authentication.
Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa · BIPOC Business Society
Nathan is studying Finance and Business Technology Management at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, where he serves as VP Finance of the BIPOC Business Society and conducted undergraduate research in AI trend forecasting and computational modelling. He spent a year as a business and technical solutions analyst at HOIST. He co-authored a brain-modeled knowledge graphs patent. At Polarity Lab, he leads the work of making the lab's research and products legible across every audience it touches, from internal team building to investor partnerships and brand strategy.
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Have an MVP or working prototype that needs a research layer, or research that needs to become a product? The lab provides team, infrastructure, and the model to make it compound.
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