
Hi! I am Stef. I am currently a Research Scientist at Sakana AI in Tokyo, Japan working on novel architectures beyond the transformer. Previously I was a research at Google Deep Mind working on novel multimodal AI applications. I graduated with a Ph.D. in Creative AI Literacies at the University of Washington Information School. I am a former an AI Resident at X Moonshot Factory, product engineer at Fixie.ai, a Weizenbaum Research Fellow. An awardee of the NSF Formal Verification in the Field Grant and the Jacobs Foundation Grant. I was previously a LEGO Papert Fellow during my time as a master student at MIT researching with Prof. Mitch Resnick and the Scratch team.
Stefania Druga brings rare hands-on depth to real-time multimodal AI and AI-education systems — her recent work on multimodal applications (live webcam/audio/sensor fusion) and Cognimates Scratch Copilot shows how she translates frontier research into working tools, making her session a practical window into where multimodal agents meet embodied science and education.
Keynote: What is Learning in the AI Era?Open Source Summit Japan + AI_dev 2025 · Dec 2025
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