Aspen Persky is a systems architect, theoretical researcher, and founder of Sf Intelligence, a research-driven initiative dedicated to high-impact innovation at the intersection of artificial intelligence, physics, and complex systems. Aspen brings over two decades of deep technical experience and intellectual exploration to the task of redefining how foundational technologies are imagined, developed, and protected.
Aspen's professional journey spans senior engineering leadership in Search and AI at Google (2011–2023), where she led teams building core NLP signals, and machine task understanding and assistance, and a leadership role at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (2023–2024), contributing to national-scale signals processing platforms in astrophysics. Her work has consistently bridged rigorous engineering with conceptual clarity, enabling her to operate across both scientific and infrastructural domains.
Since 2024, Aspen has devoted herself full-time to independent research. Her work focuses on building unifying theoretical frameworks that integrate fields as diverse as large language model behavior, high energy physics, unified field physics, and memetic systems. These insights form the conceptual backbone of The Starshot Factory—a planned innovation lab and intellectual IP engine aimed at translating foundational insight into resilient technologies and institutional transformation.
Aspen’s academic training began at Imperial College London with a degree in Computing (thesis in neural gesture recognition), and astrophysics studies at Manchester University. However, her most significant intellectual formation has taken place outside formal institutions—through a rigorous, self-funded, and self-directed education spanning over two decades of research in AI, quantum systems, and theoretical physics.
Her educational philosophy now informs the vision of "The Starshot Factory", an innovation lab developing deep generalists, lateral thinkers, and systems architects for the 21st century.
Aspen operates from a foundation of principled curiosity, independence, and intellectual integrity. She believes in clarity over jargon, collaboration over prestige, and systems transformation over platform optimization. Her work is guided by recursive synthesis—integrating philosophical, technical, and systemic insight into a coherent worldview capable of reshaping the structures of science, AI, and society itself.
Aspen is actively building the core architecture for The Starshot Factory and seeking aligned collaborators and early-stage partners. Her goal is to secure intellectual property protections and funding pathways for the most promising research outputs while prototyping scalable systems across AI, physics, and energy.
“I believe discovery is not a product of scale, but of clarity, coherence, and intent. The right system, with the right minds, can unlock futures we’ve forgotten to dream.”