top of page
Friends-of-Semel-Institute_PRIMARY.png

Dr. Vivienne Ming is a theoretical neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and author. She is the Founder and Executive Chair of The Human Trust, a philanthropic "mad science" incubator, and the Chief Scientist at Possibility Sciences, where she is pioneering systems for hybrid human-machine collective intelligence. She earned her PhD from Carnegie Mellon, then held joint appointments at Stanford and UC Berkeley. Vivienne was an early pioneer in using AI for human potential. As Chief Scientist of Gild, she built machine learning models trained on 122 million professionals to predict human capability. Today, through The Human Trust, she has developed AI to treat diabetes and bipolar disorder, reunite orphan refugees, and help autistic children learn facial expressions.

Vivienne Ming, MS, PhD

bottom of page