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Alexandria Minetti

Researcher, Contra.Work Inc. (Contra Labs) · Contra Labs (Contra.Work Inc.)

TASTE paper (arXiv 2605.20731) ↗HCB paper (arXiv 2606.30561) ↗

Contra Labs researcher named on both of its public papers: the Human Creativity Benchmark and the TASTE designer-preference dataset with Lica World. She is one of the few people who has run professional-designer annotation studies at commercial scale and published the method.

low confidenceBrooklyn / New YorkAt Contra Labs (Contra.Work Inc.) since 2026Updated 2026-09-19

Background

Public background is thin. She is listed at Contra.Work Inc., Brooklyn, NY on TASTE and at Contra, New York on HCB. Semantic Scholar also attributes a 2025 open-science and reproducibility paper to 'A. Minetti', but it may be a different person.

What they run now

Annotation study design and delivery: designer panels, criterion-level rating protocols (TASTE's nine dimensions) and HCB evaluation sessions (28–31 evaluators, 13 countries).

Career

  1. 2026 – presentResearcher, Contra.Work Inc. (Contra Labs) — title per paper affiliation

Connections

  • Aspen Hopkins — co-author (HCB)
  • Purvanshi Mehta — co-author (TASTE)
  • Haonan Zhu — co-author (TASTE)
  • Allison Nulty — co-author on both papers
  • Ben Huffman — Contra CEO
Why it matters here

She knows the practical cost and protocol of designer annotation: panel sizes, inter-rater agreement and what a pairwise design judgement costs. That operational knowledge is exactly what Julian needs to price and run his own studies.

How to reach

Only public channel found is the arXiv papers. Speculative: a methodology question about criterion-level ratings.

What we could not establish
  • Exact title (possibly the 'Data Lead' in Contra's interview loop, unconfirmed)
  • Background, education, LinkedIn and X
  • Relationship to co-author Allison Nulty's role

Sources

  1. arXiv 2605.20731: TASTE — designer-annotated preference dataset (Lica World x Contra.Work)
  2. arXiv 2606.30561: The Human Creativity Benchmark (29 Jun 2026)
Also at Contra Labs (Contra.Work Inc.)
high confidence

Ben Huffman

Co-founder & CEO, Contra (runs Contra Labs)

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Gajus Kuizinas

Co-founder & CTO, Contra

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Aspen Hopkins

Lead author, Human Creativity Benchmark (affiliated Contra and MIT)