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Catherine Havasi

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Partner and Co-Founder at M2 Foundry
📍 Greater Boston, United States

Catherine Havasi is an AI researcher and serial entrepreneur, currently Partner and Co-Founder at M2 Foundry, a startup studio for dual-use tech. Educated at MIT and Brandeis University, she pioneered AI crowdsourcing in the 90s and co-founded companies like Luminoso. She specializes in operationalizing emerging technology, particularly in natural language processing.

Passionate about science education, Catherine serves as Co-Chair of the National Leadership Council for the Society for Science. An alumna of its competitions, she actively gives back by judging science fairs and helping young scientists learn to communicate their ideas effectively. She also enjoys creating high-tech puzzle hunts and has a background in theater directing.

Unique fact: Catherine co-founded ConceptNet at MIT, one of the largest open-source knowledge graphs for language understanding, which has been instrumental in thousands of AI projects.

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Experience
6 Years
Current Role
Partner and Co-Founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Greater Boston, United States
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Dual-Use Innovation
Her current venture, M2 Foundry, is a startup studio explicitly focused on forging the future of dual-use innovation for national and financial security.
Human-AI Collaboration
In her recent TEDx talk, she argued that AI should be viewed as a coworker, emphasizing the need to design collaborative interfaces for humans and AI to co-learn.
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Career

Work history

12-2024
Partner and Co-Founder
M2 Foundry
4-2025
Co-Chair, National Leadership Council
Society for Science
1-2021 - 4-2025
National Leadership Council
Society for Science
8-2024
Mentor
Techstars
9-2019
Mentor and Instructor
MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program
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Education
2004 - 2009
PhD
Brandeis University
2003 - 2004
MEng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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