Jesse Parent is a M.S. student at  Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego. He is currently director & founder of the Cognition Futures group under Dr. Bradly Alicea at Orthogonal Research and Education Lab (OREL). 

Jesse is also a Research Associate under Dr. David Turock at a proprietary HealthTech R&D group.  He is a cofounder at PlotTwisters.org, building EdTech and facilitating use-inspired research on self-reflection and emotional literacy.  Jesse is developing an organization to support early-career researchers and associated interdisciplinary projects.

Jesse's primary research interests center around embodied and diverse intelligences, with particular exploration of the influence of biological & cognitive developmental on both natural and artificial intelligence. He is also interested neuro-bio-feedback, methods of biometric data acquisition, and technological affordances as they relate to perception, psychological, emotional, mental, and other phenomenological components.