Brandon Ong is Co-Founder and CEO of Hebbian Robotics (YC S26), a Physical AI data infrastructure company building open-source SDKs and APIs that help robotics teams evaluate and curate training data at scale.

Brandon studied at Columbia University and the National University of Singapore in a joint PhD program in Robotics, which he left to pursue entrepreneurship in the Physical AI space.

Brandon's AI research on low-resource languages topped Stanford's SEA-HELM LLM benchmark, and he previously built two-arm industrial cleaning robots, giving him deep hands-on experience across both AI and embodied systems.

Prior to Hebbian Robotics, Brandon was Co-Founder and CTO at Gigit AI, a startup backed by Sequoia and Pear VC, and has also held roles at Griffin Labs, AI Singapore, and OKX.

Hebbian Robotics, backed by Y Combinator and angels from Oracle, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI, enables data teams to scale Physical AI pipelines from thousands to millions of hours of data without managing infrastructure.