Lukas Wolf

Lukas Wolf is the co-founder of Sonia, an artificial intelligence-powered mental health support platform based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to launching the Y Combinator-backed startup, he studied computer science at ETH Zurich and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, focusing heavily on natural language processing. His professional experience includes specialized research and development roles within academic laboratories at both ETH and MIT, alongside corporate engineering work at BMW. As an academic researcher specializing in machine learning, Wolf has published nine papers at prominent industry conferences such as NeurIPS, accumulating 149 citations on Google Scholar. He possesses deep technical expertise in building complex cognitive models using modern software frameworks like PyTorch. His current professional focus bridges rigorous academic research and commercial software development, centering on the application of cognitive science to accessible mental health solutions.