Ryan Lin

Building something new · Physics and Philosophy at Oxford

Previously, I won a gold medal at the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (ranked 6th in theory), researched neural operator architectures at Caltech, and co-founded Qsium, the largest quantum youth network in the UK.

Driven by expanding the forefront of human knowledge.

Experience

  1. 2026– Stealth startup · Co-founder
  2. 2025–26 Caltech · Research assistant Neural operators and physics-informed machine learning, under Philip Hopkins and Anima Anandkumar.
  3. 2025 Stealth startup · Founding engineer Agent negotiation and subjective social intelligence.
  4. 2025 Caltech · Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Discovered several new planetary nebulae in 15 TB of data, under Shrinivas Kulkarni, David Cook and Ashish Mahabal.
  5. 2025 Vela Partners · Machine learning research intern Agents for startup forecasting.
  6. 2025 Oxford Alpha Fund · Quantitative analyst Equities trading.
  7. 2024–25 Sepal AI (YC S24) · Project team lead Special projects. Acquired by Mercor.
  8. 2023–24 Qsium · Co-founder The largest quantum youth network in the UK, backed by Jane Street and Quantinuum.
  9. 2022 Leaf Forecasted the intelligence explosion.
  10. 2022 Summer Science Program · New Mexico Published astrophysics research.

Projects

  1. 2026 Pythagoras An AI notebook that keeps reading, questions and notes in one workspace, and maps your conceptual connections in a knowledge graph.
  2. 2025 Delego · Winner, Anthropic hackathon Agents fine-tuned on a team’s messages and emails debate, align and assign the work.

Publications

  1. 2022 New Observations of Near-Earth Asteroid 3102 (1981 QA) Lin, R.X., Suh, P.D., Schwartz, E.F., et al. Minor Planet Centre of the International Astronomical Union, M.P.C. 142147 / M.P.S. 1623105.

Honours

  1. 2023 Gold medal, International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics Ranked 10th; 1st nationally in the team selection test.
  2. 2023 Atlas Fellow One of 100 fellows selected from 13,000 applicants.
  3. 2022 Bronze medal, Buca International Science and Engineering Fair Ranked 9th; calculated space debris trajectories.
  4. 2021 High Commendation, John Locke Institute Essay Competition Top 30 globally.
  5. 2021 1st nationally, UKMT Intermediate Mathematical Challenge Perfect score.

Education

  1. 2023–26 University of Oxford · BA Physics and Philosophy Ranked 2nd; $4k in scholarships and grants.
  2. 2016–23 Reading School 5 A*s at A-level; highest academic performance in the cohort.