Ilya Lyashevsky
CEO at ThinkHumanTV | CogSci Faculty at Columbia Teachers College
- Role
- Cofounder and CEO at Thinkhumantv
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ilya Lyashevsky
I am the cofounder and CEO of ThinkHumanTV (\'25 Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs Catalyst,\'25 GESAwards Winner,\'24 edtech Tools Competition winner). Our app, Humie, helps kids 3-8 build emotional skills while watching their favorite shows. Visit thinkhuman.tv to learn more and download (iPhone/iPad/Mac OS; Android coming soon).I also co-created and co-teach the country\'s first graduate course on the cognitive foundations of social emotional learning at Columbia Teachers College together with Mel Cesarano. Mel and I are the creators of the Deep Emotion Learning SEL methodology, which focuses on grasping the fundamental principles that govern our emotions. Previously, I was the cofounder of WeShelter.org, a nonprofit using mobile tech to help alleviate homelessness, which helped log over 500k charitable actions in support of NYC homeless service orgs. I also helped the NYC Dept of Homeless Services fully revamp and modernize their street outreach tech infrastructure. Prior to that, I worked with Electric Literature to develop the first digital magazine app for iOS, and was the first technical employee at Broadcastr, which created an early geo-location-based storytelling app. I also built the first iPad app released by Human Rights Watch, and numerous other iOS apps. As an author, my fiction and academic work has appeared in multiple journals including The Bellevue Literary Review, Epiphany, Chautauqua, the American Educational Research Journal, and elsewhere.
Experience
Cofounder and CEO
Apr 2018 — Present · Brooklyn, NY, US
Helping kids build emotional skills while watching their favorite movies and shows- NSF SBIR Phase I and II award recipient- Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs Catalyst cohort,\'25- Tools Competition Winner,\'24- PENN GSE Catalyst Finalist- SXSW EDU Startup Launch Finalist- MIT Solve Semi-finalist
Education
Stanford University
BS & MS, Computer Science
1998 — 2004
Columbia University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cognitive Science
2012 — 2018
Skills
- Mobile Applications
- Javascript
- Ios Development
- Objective-C
- Software Development
- Scrum
- Software Engineering
- Git
- Web Applications
- Oop
- Agile Project Management
- Object Oriented Design
- Java
- User Interface Design
- Agile Methodologies
- Subversion
- Mysql
- C
- User Experience
- Project Management
- Mobile Devices
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