Nick Obradovich

Nick Obradovich is a computational behavioral scientist and cofounder & CEO of Recognition Labs, a nonprofit AI company. His research examines human and machine behavior—how AI systems act, how their actions affect people, and how to evaluate them. He co‑authored Nature’s “Machine behaviour,” often credited with helping define the field. He also studies how environmental conditions—conceived broadly as the exposures that surround people—shape behavior and well‑being, using large‑scale, high‑resolution data. Before Recognition Labs, he worked at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, the MIT Media Lab, and Stanford University. His work appears in Nature, The Lancet, and PNAS and has been widely covered across major media worldwide, including The New York Times, CNN, BBC, and The Wall Street Journal. He holds a PhD from UC San Diego and completed postdoctoral training at Harvard University.