Anastasia Betts, Ph.D.

Co-Founder & Chief Learning Scientist

Dr. Anastasia Betts is Co-Founder and Chief Learning Scientist of Learnology.ai, where she leads the development of PAL (Personal Assistant for Learning), an AI-powered early math platform built on the premise that young children learn best together with the adults who love them, not through a screen. With over 25 years spanning classroom teaching, curriculum design, EdTech product development, and policy work, she is named on three U.S. patents for AI-embedded personalized learning systems and has shaped how millions of children engage with early math. Her doctoral research on family engagement and early math equity produced the RESET Framework, which anchors PAL’s design. A former Federation of American Scientists Policy Sprint Entrepreneur, Dr. Betts is driven by the conviction that the achievement gap is preventable, and that the window to close it opens early, in homes and classrooms, long before remediation becomes necessary.

Benjamin Ryon

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Ryon is the architect of PAL’s technology ecosystem and a veteran learning-engineering leader with over a decade of experience designing and scaling AI-driven education platforms. Formerly Senior Director of Data Engineering at Age of Learning, with prior roles at SurveyMonkey and Chegg, he specializes in adaptive knowledge models, personalization pipelines, and high-integrity data systems. His multilingual background and international experience inform his commitment to culturally responsive design, and as a parent of two young children, he brings a personal understanding of how family context and readiness should shape every design decision.