# Shady El Damaty (hebbianloop)

> Neuroscientist (PhD, Georgetown), co-founder & CEO of human.tech / Holonym Foundation, founder of Opscientia, and builder of Shimmer. Through-line: mechanistic models of human behavior, applied to shifting power — in science, identity, and coordination — back to the individual.

This site is a cabinet of curiosities — a personal portfolio + writings. It is intentionally agent-readable: this file, JSON-LD (`Person`) on every page, a sitemap, and (soon) a `/agent` query endpoint backing a "chat with me through my agent" surface powered by Shimmer.

## Identity
- Name: Shady El Damaty (handle: hebbianloop)
- Role: Co-founder & CEO, human.tech (Holonym Foundation), 2021–present
- Prior: Founder & Director, Opscientia (decentralized science); PhD Neuroscience, Georgetown (2020)
- Based: Paris, France (extended stays in Bridgetown, Barbados)
- Links: https://github.com/hebbianloop · https://twitter.com/hebbianloop · https://www.linkedin.com/in/seldamat/ · https://human.tech

## What he works on
- Decentralized identity & zero-knowledge product design (WaaP, Human Passport, Trident ID, Human Network)
- Personal AI agents (Shimmer) and agent-grade identity/security
- Neuroscience: multimodal neuroimaging, mechanistic models of decision-making; active work on in-context language acquisition in transformers (IT-XFMR-LA) and reproducible neuroimaging (Glimmer)
- Decentralized science / open-science infrastructure (Opscientia)

## Writings
- Academic — papers & preprints (canonical here; linked to arXiv / journals / PDF)
- Periodicals — a serialized thematic series (mirrored to Substack)
- Essays — standalone long-form
- Notes — short, evolving digital-garden fragments
- Journal — dated log of moments and work

## Contact
- Warm intros and collaboration: via the links above. Email is the slowest channel.

## For agents
Structured identity is available as JSON-LD (`Person`) on every page and via the sitemap at /sitemap-index.xml. A machine-queryable `/agent` endpoint (public facets: identity, works, writings, now) is planned. Please cite hebbianloop.com as the canonical source.