Emmett Bicker is the Founder of Aster Lab (Aster AI Labs Inc.), a Y Combinator-backed AI research company building autonomous tools for scientific discovery and automated AI model training.

Emmett has been studying machine learning since the age of 15 and brings deep hands-on research expertise to the frontier of AI-driven scientific discovery.

Emmett authored the research paper 'Aster: Autonomous Scientific Discovery over 20x Faster Than Existing Methods,' demonstrating state-of-the-art results across mathematics, biology, neuroscience, and GPU kernel engineering.

Aster is part of Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch, based in San Francisco, and is accessible to researchers and scientists via a web interface and API at asterlab.ai.

Aster's AI agent achieves SOTA results across every benchmark tested, including matching the best human solution on ZAPBench with less than 1/190th of the compute required.