Throughout my career, I’ve built cognitive AI systems (software minds) for humanoid robots and filed patents on affective humanoid interfaces: systems that can perceive, interpret, and respond to human intent with an appropriate action. I’ve led engineering teams on the creation and delivery of AI Digital People (embodied agents with AI brains, personalities, and conversational systems) for T1 brands and Hollywood.
Most recently, I founded an AI R&D startup powering top ML research conferences like NeurIPS and CVPR and built the largest Model Inference API on the internet (160k+ models across 33 ML tasks). I like investing in heretical technical founders and exploring mythic worldbuilding, especially where it intersects with frontier robotics and embodied AI. Often, I think about what makes us human.
I am the daughter of NUIT. We are a synth-pop duo interested in sound, liminality, and the chthonic.
In 2016, I founded Women Who Code Vancouver. In four years, I grew our community from 0 to over 4000 techlords. Together, we changed tech culture in Vancouver.
I have a background in anthropology. Once, I wrote a thesis on death rituals and symbolic immortality.
I know too much about ikebana and Japanese Death Poetry.
In my spare time, I program analog synthesizers, do machine learning, develop 35mm film, and talk to rebellious thinkers vs. systems of power.
Projects:
NUIT
THE HERETIC
Elsewhere:
CV
Story
GitHub
YouTube
Blog
Photography by Alaina Michelle // The Prevail Project
© Holly Peck 2025.