Prometheus X fellowship aims to empower everyone through our fellows, especially underrepresented communities, to reach their full potential in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.
Meet the visionaries shaping tomorrow's breakthroughs where extraordinary talent meets unparalleled opportunity. Each with a unique story, passion, and vision for advancing tech-enabled social impact.
Rupert Tawiah-Quashie is currently a NeuroAI research associate at Harvard University working under Dr. Colin Conwell at the Harvard Vision Lab and Prof Tomer Ullman at the Computation Cognition and Development lab where he is contributing to groundbreaking research aimed at enhancing symbolic reasoning capabilities in generative AI models. His work involves designing and implementing experiments to test state-of-the-art text-to-image AI models on complex logical operations, including relations, negations, and numerical reasoning. Rupert develops advanced image processing techniques, such as object segmentation using YOLO and SAM, and expands the DeepJuice package with diverse image processing methods. His research aims to create more transparent, reliable, and accessible AI systems.
Passionate about democratizing AI and making technology accessible, Rupert co-founded Code_gh, an initiative that teaches coding and machine learning to high school and college students in Ghana. His technical expertise spans machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and image processing, with proficiency in various AI frameworks.
A recent graduate of Hampshire College with a B.A. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Rupert has earned numerous accolades, including the Davis Project for Peace Grant and Emergent Ventures Grant. As a Ghanaian international student, he has demonstrated exceptional academic prowess and leadership throughout his academic journey.
Tyrique King is a Special Advisor and Venture Fellow at Prometheus X and the Founder and CEO of Velocity Labs, where he is building an AI tutor to deliver personalised workforce training in AI at scale.
Previously, Tyrique played a pivotal role as #2 in building and fundraising for the Virtual Centre of Advanced Potential at Schmidt Futures, which has since evolved into Prometheus X.
He has also worked at Google, University of Cambridge Psychometric Institute and other startups, working at the intersection of AI, Psychology of motivation and learning, and marketing. Tyrique's academic achievements include being the sole MSc Google-DeepMind Scholar at the University of Oxford in his year. He also graduated with First Class honors and received a departmental prize from the University of Warwick, where he designed an entirely new degree structure.
