Jay Chooi is Co-Founder and CEO at Robocurve, a Y Combinator-backed Public Benefit Corporation building open-source tools and independent benchmarks to measure how well robots can do real-world jobs.

Jay graduated from Harvard with a BA in Computer Science and Mathematics and an MA in Statistics, where his thesis on Computational Perspectives on Democracy in the Age of AI was awarded Highest Honors, and was elected a Rhodes Scholar in 2025.

Jay is a published researcher at ACM EC, ICML, ACL, and EMNLP, a gold medalist at the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics, and famously forecasted the 2024 US Presidential Election correctly in all 50 states.

Prior to Robocurve, Jay served as a Research Fellow at MATS, a researcher at the UK AI Security Institute, and was a top contributor to Inspect Evals, the UK government's official AI evaluation framework.

Robocurve has already shipped v1 of its open-source framework Inspect Robots and completed its first pilot scoring a frontier model on a real robot, positioning itself as the trusted independent standard for robotics benchmarking as frontier labs race toward general-purpose robotics by 2028.