Proof of Human
ActiveHiringcontinuous human verification without CAPTCHAs or user friction
About
Proof of Human is an API that invisibly detects bots and verifies human identity. Founded by Princeton cognitive scientists, Proof of Human leverages world-class research with industry-beating benchmarks so platforms can verify their human users friction-free.
Founders
Mayank Agrawal· FounderCEO of Proof of Human, building the invisible Turing Test for the Internet. Before Proof of Human, Mayank completed a PhD at Princeton University working at the intersection of cognitive science and artificial intelligence, publishing in high-impact venues including Science, PNAS, and Psychological Review.
Matt Hardy· FounderMatt is a co-founder of Proof of Human, a company building the invisible Turing Test for the internet. Before Proof of Human, Matt was a PhD student at Princeton University, where he used machine learning and behavioral and experiments to study how people make decisions. Before his PhD, Matt majored in both statistics and economics at the University of Toronto, and worked in data science and econometrics.
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