Turning Ideas into Open‑Access Public Goods

Our research team explores mechanisms that make markets fairer, information freer, and public goods sustainable. Below you’ll find our people, stories, and the public‑domain outputs we publish.

“Cassandra gave me the freedom to explore research ideas in multi-agent systems that I’ve always been curious about but couldn’t pursue in a traditional work setting. The Fellowship removed the red tape and let us move fast at the cutting edge.”
— Andrei Lyskov
“The Fellowship gave me my first real experience of doing scientific research. I came away with a deeper understanding of how the scientific process helps us uncover important truths—and how to ask better questions and design experiments that move us forward.”
“The Fellowship isn’t just for scientists or software engineers. I was able to contribute through my accounting expertise to help advance open fintech infrastructure”
— Hans Shen

Resident Researchers & Cassandra Fellows

  • Gintautas ("Gin") Svedas

    Cassandra Fellow
    Gin is an AI Engineer at SAP Research & Innovation in Palo Alto, where he prototypes next‑generation machine‑learning systems. A lifelong community builder, he serves as a developer advocate with AICamp and was selected as a section leader for Stanford’s Code in Place 2025. Earlier in his career he wrote high‑performance Python at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and delivered cloud‑native microservices and data pipelines at Danske Bank. Gin earned a B.S. in Information Technology from Vilnius University while completing Harvard CS50 and Stanford Continuing Studies courses. At Cassandra Labs he explores retrieval‑augmented generation, vector databases, prediction markets, and the broader intersection of AI and finance.

  • Arpan Bhattacharya

    Researcher-in-Residence
    Arpan Bhattacharya is the founder and CEO of The Intelligent Search Company in San Francisco and a Researcher‑in‑Residence at Cassandra Labs. Previously, he engineered large‑scale search infrastructure, ads systems, experimentation platforms, and workflow orchestration at Uber, Wish, Meta, and Intuit. Arpan completed his B.S. with honors in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas in just two years on a full academic scholarship. At Cassandra Labs he researches decision intelligence, retrieval‑augmented generation, adaptive information retrieval, human–AI collaboration, and applied cognitive architectures for complex decision‑making.

  • Aakaash Sreereddy

    Cassandra Fellow
    Aakaash Sreereddy is the Senior Vice President of Operations at iCashe, Inc. and a banking and fintech operator with over a decade of experience in regulated financial infrastructure. As the first non-founder hire at Bankevo, a subsidiary of Lewis & Clark Bancorp, he led fintech partnerships with Lewis & Clark Bank as the sponsor institution from 2021 to 2025. His work spanned network partnerships, fintech due diligence, FedNow implementation, ACH and wire payment rails, and revenue management frameworks for evaluating partner economics. Earlier, as Operations & Information Security Officer at GN Bank, he drove digital transformation, core banking modernization, and IT and BSA compliance across multiple OCC examination cycles. Aakaash was selected for the inaugural BankTech Ventures Fellowship and earned his MBA in Finance from The George Washington University. At Cassandra Labs, he focuses on stablecoin trust frameworks, industrial loan charters, and the application of AI in banking.

  • Andrei Lyskov

    Cassandra Fellow
    Andrei Lyskov is a senior data scientist and author based in San Francisco. After earning his Computer Science degree from Queen’s University in Canada, he drove data‑powered products at Apple—contributing to Apple TV+ and Apple One—as well as at Square and Coinbase. At Cassandra Labs he explores decision intelligence, large‑language‑model tooling, human‑AI collaboration, and applied cognitive architectures for complex decision‑making.

  • Hans Shen, CPA

    Cassandra Fellow
    Hans Shen is a Certified Public Accountant and fintech specialist who bridges rigorous accounting standards with modern software architecture. After advising and building finance systems for multiple high‑growth startups, he now applies that expertise to open‑source ledger design and innovative financial mechanisms at Cassandra Labs. Hans focuses on ensuring that every on‑chain register and off‑chain report he touches can stand up to both auditors and regulators while empowering developers to innovate.

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