BETHESDA, MD, February 26, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Ivana Jelic has been selected for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.

Ivana Jelic is the founder and CEO of Sophia Spatial AI, where she is building the next frontier of artificial intelligence: spatial intelligence.

After more than a decade at the forefront of machine learning and computational biology — including senior leadership roles at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative — Ivana recognized a fundamental limitation in modern AI. Language models could reason in text, but they could not reason in the physical world.

Sophia Spatial AI was founded to change that.

Her work focuses on grounding artificial intelligence in real-world environments through multimodal models, computer vision, and AR-native interfaces — transforming static enterprise knowledge into real-time, context-aware guidance for frontline workers. The mission is ambitious: to make intelligence visible, interactive, and embedded directly into the environments where work happens.

Before founding Sophia Spatial AI, Ivana led AI-driven scientific initiatives at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, working at the intersection of foundation models and biology. Her earlier work spans IBM Watson's cognitive computing efforts, aerospace algorithm development, biomedical machine learning research, and published mathematical modeling in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.

Across these domains, a consistent thread emerged: intelligence becomes exponentially more powerful when it is contextualized.

That insight now defines her company.

Ivana's vision is not incremental automation. It is the creation of a new cognitive infrastructure layer — one that bridges digital models and physical reality, augments human expertise rather than replacing it, and reshapes how industries train, transfer knowledge, and operate.

She is currently scaling Sophia Spatial AI toward enterprise deployment, partnering with organizations that believe the future of AI is not just conversational, but spatial, embodied, and operational.

Ivana holds degrees in mathematics and statistics from Georgetown University and has pursued advanced doctoral studies in artificial intelligence and machine learning at The George Washington University.

She is a mother of two and believes the most meaningful technologies are those that expand human capability — not just computational power.

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