Rigorous research for an intelligent and fair machine age.

Krzysztof Pietroszek is a computer scientist, filmmaker, and serial founder whose career spans the full arc of the AI revolution — from human-computer interaction research to generative AI entrepreneurship to national technology policy.

He is an Associate Professor at American University, jointly appointed in the School of Communication and the Department of Computer Science, and the Founding Director of the Institute for IDEAS (Immersive Designs, Experiences, Applications, and Stories). As Principal Investigator, he has secured major National Science Foundation awards — including a $1,000,000 NSF Major Research Instrumentation grant for a volumetric capture system and a $1.5 million NSF project using spatial computing and volumetric capture to augment remote medical procedure training, conducted with the George Washington University School of Medicine, where he served as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine.

His research on 3D interaction, volumetric communication, and immersive storytelling has produced more than sixty peer-reviewed publications in the premier venues of the field — CHI, UIST, IEEE VR, ISMAR, and VRST — and keynote invitations from the Cannes Film Festival, IARIA Congress, and MINDCARE, among many others. He has held appointments at California State University Monterey Bay and as Visiting Professor at Côte d'Azur University in France, where he advanced Gaussian splatting technology for volumetric capture.

Before founding FAIR Labs, he built companies at the frontier of interactive technology: NetClick, a Y Combinator (Imagine K12)–backed real-time student response system; CineClick, a mass gaming platform for movie theatres; and most recently Moholo, a generative AI startup behind the AllAIs.com AI aggregator and single-camera volumetric capture technology. In total he has raised nearly $4 million in federal grants and private investment for research and creative work.

Mike Treanor is an artificial intelligence researcher who studies how AI systems can model something machines have always struggled with: people, their relationships, and the meaning of their interactions.

He is Chair and Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science at American University and a founding member of the American University Game Center. His scholarship centers on AI-based game design, social simulation, procedural content generation, and computational media — using games as rigorous laboratories for understanding how artificial intelligence represents and reasons about human social behavior.

Dr. Treanor is a co-creator of Prom Week, the landmark social simulation game that was a finalist for Technical Excellence at the Independent Games Festival and a finalist at IndieCade, and of Game-O-Matic, a pioneering system that automatically generates games to express ideas and arguments. His recent research explores symbolically grounded, LLM-based generative dialogue — combining the rigor of classic social simulation with the fluency of large language models. His work has been covered by The Guardian, USA Today, Forbes, New Scientist, and Edge, and he was an invited participant in the White House Educational Game Jam and the Dagstuhl seminars on AI in games.

At FAIR Labs, he leads research on the social and interpretive dimensions of AI — how generative systems represent people, and what it takes to make those representations fair.