Alyssa M Adams

Alyssa M. Adams is a physicist and creative technologist whose career bridges ten startup ventures and more than fifteen years of community building. They believe artificial life represents a new technological paradigm with the capacity to transform our future. 

As Deputy Director of Cross Labs in Kyoto, Alyssa ensures teams have the resources and freedom to pursue profound scientific and technological questions, while dynamically scaling the lab’s organizational backbone to support transformative research. Their work explores how constraints drive emergent function in living and artificial systems, advancing our understanding of intelligence, evolution, and adaptive agents. 

Alyssa’s creative practice includes composing piano and synth music, working in soft pastel, and imagining technologies inspired by life itself — with the freedom to grow, evolve, and claim their own identities alongside us.