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Rumi Elías Calles
Director of Research Engineering at micro1
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Co-founder & Chair of Grammar
Makai Elias Calles
Co-founder & Chair of Grammar, Aeterna Institute
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Robert Backer, PhD
Co-founder & Fellow
Rumi Elías Calles
Founder & Researcher — Director of Research Engineering at micro1
AI researcher and classicist trained at Ralston College (MA Humanities), Academia Vivarium Novum, Fei Tian College, Wolfram Institute, and Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies. Advanced Latin and Ancient Greek; author of Latinium.ai and Etymon.ai.
LatinAncient GreekPhilosophyAI & ClassicsData ScienceNLP
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Co-founder & Chair of Grammar — Co-founder & Chair of Grammar, Aeterna Institute
Interdisciplinary scholar and writer at The Epoch Times. MA in the Humanities from Ralston College, with a residency in Greece. Advanced Ancient and Modern Greek. Formerly of NASA and the University of Maryland.
GrammarAncient GreekModern GreekMandarin ChineseBiomedical EthicsWriting
Read Full Curriculum Vitae Robert Backer, PhD
Co-founder & Fellow — Co-founder & Fellow
PhD in Psychology & Brain Sciences from the University of Delaware, M.S.Ed from the University of Pennsylvania. Research affiliations with Columbia, Yale, UPenn, and NYU. Currently an MD student at Penn State College of Medicine.
PsychologyNeuroscienceClinical ResearchMoral PhilosophyApplied Ethics
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