About Us
With expertise on computation, language, and learning, our group can help you advance your cause: to help students learn more from less. We have a special blend knowledge to help bring cognition and computation together for you on your reading platform.
MinLearn® is a social for-profit company focusing on effective social impact and the common good in education through the use of responsible technology using a sustainable business model.
Helmuth holds degrees in finance, economics, and politics and has experience developing companies internationally. After a financial career as a managing director at UBS in the US, Europe, and Asia, his recent work has focused on education startups and consulting.
Helmuth Aberer
Founder, CEO
Matt uses articial neural networks and scientic data systems to address how children learn, focusing on reading development and its educational applications. Matt was formerly an elementary school reading teacher.
Matt Cooper Borkenhagen
Co-founder, Senior Adviser
Scientific Advisors
Developmental psychologist, ed scientist studying cognitive-behavioral mechanisms of reading + other aspects of development related to academic achievement. Her work examines these factors in children with and without learning disabilities.
Mercedes Spencer
Professor of Psychology. UW-Madison. Cognitive scientist doing pioneering work using artificial neural networks to study cognition, applying machine learning to problems in cognitive development & the brain bases of language.
Tim Rogers
Associate Professor of Psychology and Linguistics. University of Southern California. Cognitive scientist with focus on spoken language structure, processing, development; computational models of learning & expertise.
Jason Zevin
Assistant Professor of Statistics. Univ. of British Columbia. Expertise in ML, articial neural networks, and network analysis. Research focuses on representation learning with applications to causal inference, algorithms, and automated structure discovery.
Benjamin Bloem-Reddy
Professor of Human Development & Family Studies at Purdue University. Developmental psychologist specializing in early learning - reading, writing, & math with a cross cultural focus.
Catherine McBride
Professor of Psychology at FSU + Florida Center for Reading Research. Don’s work on reading development and the identification + treatment of children with reading disabilities has been critical in reading science and educational practice.