Inaugural Cohort · Durham, NC · Summer 2026

Lumos Residency Program.

A twelve-week paid residency in Durham. Work alongside our cofounders on the first physiological foundation model. Paid trial. Paid summer. Housing, compute, and meals covered.

Trial Week
$5,000 / 8 days
Summer Stipend
$8,000 / month
Cohort
8 residents
Deadline
May 30
01 Mission

Lumos Health is building the first physiological foundation model.

It's a continuous-time, multimodal model of how the human body changes over time and responds to disease, drugs, and other interventions.

Nobody else is going after it directly, at least not that we've seen. As a resident, you'd work on the model's core components alongside the rest of the team.

Application I
Sepsis prediction hours before it presents.
Application II
Why this oncology patient responds and that one doesn't.
Application III
In-silico clinical trials across millions of synthetic humans.
02 Tracks

Two methodologies. One frontier.

×
Track I · Physics-Informed

Encode the laws, learn the rest.

Cofounder & CSO

Build ML systems that respect physical constraints. Use simulation and HPC as ground truth. Digital twins for cardiovascular disease, cancer, and drug response — alongside our CSO, an ACM Prize in Computing recipient.

Track II · Data-Driven

Learn the structure from scale.

Cofounder & CTO

Efficient and trustworthy ML, LLM agents, multimodal learning, sparsity. The methods that have defined the modern frontier.

You'll pick one track when you apply, but both cohorts share a house, an office, and a weekly seminar — so you're in conversation with the other side all summer.

03 Structure

Three phases.

i
Trial Week
June 1 – 8
  • Fly to Durham, live in the cohort house
  • Work alongside the Lumos team and your cofounder
  • Travel, housing, and meals covered
$5,000
paid trial
ii
Full Residency
June 8 – September 8
  • Become a Lumos Health employee
  • Housing in cohort Airbnb (covered)
  • Office space, compute budget, cofounder mentorship
  • One research project you own end-to-end
$8,000
per month
iii
What's Next
September onward
  • Strongest residents continue past the summer
  • Fall extension, or
  • Full-time offer at Lumos Health
continued

Total package: ~$11,500/month with housing, food, and compute factored in.

04 Profile

Who we're looking for.

What We Read

  • Raw modeling chops. Papers, preprints, open source, projects, theses. We optimize for modeling ability, not domain knowledge.
  • Engineering and research fluency. Run an experiment and ship the result.
  • Track conviction. Tell us which cofounder and why.
  • Self-direction. Small cohort. Senior team. Fast pace.

Who Tends to Fit

  • PhD students between programs or considering industry
  • Masters students with published work
  • Undergrads with arXiv preprints or strong projects
  • Postdocs in transition
  • Researchers reskilling into AI from adjacent fields
No prior physiological modeling experience required. No formal credential required. The work is the credential.
05 Place

Why Durham.

Both of our research cofounders are based here, with UNC 12 minutes from our office and Duke just 8. The Research Triangle is one of the densest AI-for-science corridors in the country, and your stipend will go a lot further than it would in SF or NYC.

You'll live in one of two cohort Airbnbs, work out of a real office, and spend the summer with a small group of peers.

8 min
to Duke
12 min
to UNC
8
residents · two tracks
Application · Lumos Health PBC

Apply for Summer 2026.

We're looking for students, undergrads, PhDs, and researchers with strong technical backgrounds. Show us your best work.

Open Application Form

Or copy this link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepj7rYJlO9hljbwUTMLiBseBQ8RUXDWKlOVo4npgX_wRkV-Q/viewform

Questions? Email camille@projectlumos.org

Deadline · May 30, 11:59 PM ET