We build technologies, conduct research, connect people, and preserve knowledge to advance human survival on Earth and beyond.
What is XU?
XU is an organization working at the intersection of science, medicine, engineering, and exploration to address problems whose solutions don't yet exist. This includes cancer, mental health, AI, ML, robotics, aerospace, and engineering.
Philosophy
Humanity's greatest advances have come from doing what we thought was impossible and what we did not yet understand. Diseases once considered incurable became treatable. Technologies like airplanes proved we could fly. Humans left Earth and began exploring beyond it. XU exists to pursue what comes next. We believe the unknown is not a boundary — it's an infinite invitation for humans to do something.
Events
HAX'27
Where U Solve X.
BUILDING SOMETHING REAL IN 12 HOURS.
HAX'27 Seattle
University of Washington, Seattle
Team
Founder— Harsha Singla
Harsha Singla is a pre-med student at the University of Washington with an interest in neuroscience, aerospace medicine, research, and tech. She previously attended Lake Washington High School in WA.
Join the team
Applications to join the board, intern, and volunteer will be out on November 5.
Organizations we're building relationships with
Projects
The $1 Initiative
One dollar. One contribution. One step toward advancing human survival.
The $1 Initiative is XU's community-powered research funding initiative. We believe important medical and scientific research should not stop simply because a lab or research group cannot secure enough funding to continue. Through the $1 Initiative, small contributions from people around the world can be pooled together and directed toward promising hospitals, laboratories, researchers, and projects identified by XU. One dollar may be small. Millions of people contributing one dollar is not.
HSA — Human Survival Archive
An independent science communication initiative documenting the people, ideas, and breakthroughs shaping the future of human survival and space exploration — through interviews with researchers, doctors, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and innovators from around the world, alongside a growing knowledge hub that makes complex research more accessible.
Most science communicators focus on explaining discoveries, while most researchers focus on publishing them. HSA's goal is to bridge these worlds by connecting advances in medicine, engineering, space exploration, and entrepreneurship through a single unifying mission: advancing human survival. By bringing together insights from researchers, clinicians, engineers, founders, and innovators, we hope to make complex scientific progress more accessible while highlighting how interdisciplinary collaboration can help solve humanity's greatest challenges both on Earth and beyond.
Introducing the Human Survival Archive
Dr. Jonathan McDowell - 40 years at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Join XU
Build what comes next.
Contribute your time, skills, and ideas.
OPPORTUNITIES
- HAX'27 Volunteer
LEADERSHIP
- Sponsorships Lead
- Events Lead
- Marketing Lead
- Design Lead
- Communications Lead
Sign Up to Volunteer
Tell us where you'd like to help and we'll follow up.
Start a Chapter
Interested in bringing XU to your high school or university? Contact us
Internships Coming soon
Internships will be released soon, stay tuned.
Support the technologies, research, events, and people building toward a better future.
Build with us. XU partners with researchers, universities, companies, healthcare organizations, technology organizations, aerospace organizations, community organizations, and educational institutions.