Cortera Neurotechnologies

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. He is known as a co-inventor of "neural dust" — ultrasonic, battery-free implantable sensors — and for developing the world's first remotely radio-controlled cyborg beetles. His research centres on extreme miniaturisation of technology for synthetic interfaces with biological systems. He co-founded Cortera in 2013 alongside Rikky Muller, Peter Ledochowitsch, and Jan Rabaey to commercialise the wireless micro-ECoG device Muller invented in his lab. He later also co-founded Iota Biosciences on the neural dust platform.

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (2013), where her dissertation produced Cortera's foundational technology: a micro-electrocorticography (ECoG) device as thin as plastic wrap and as flexible as a soft contact lens, capable of wireless neural recording using ultra-low-power circuits. Named MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society early-career award recipient. She co-founded Cortera as CTO to bring her doctoral invention to market.

Bioengineering Ph.D. graduate of UC Berkeley (2013) who co-founded Cortera Neurotechnologies as Chief Science Officer alongside Rikky Muller, Michel Maharbiz, and Jan Rabaey. His doctoral work contributed to the ECoG platform that is the basis of Cortera's neural recording system. He is based in Seattle and has carried the scientific leadership role from the company's 2013 founding through its 2019 acquisition by Nia Therapeutics. Limited additional public biographical detail is available beyond his UC Berkeley Ph.D. and Cortera CSO role.

Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the EECS department at UC Berkeley, and CTO of IMEC Belgium's System-Technology Co-Optimization division since 2019. He founded and directed the Berkeley Wireless Research Center and the Berkeley Ubiquitous SwarmLab. He made foundational contributions to low-power integrated circuits, advanced wireless systems, and sensor networks, and helped conceive the infoPad (a forerunner of the iPad). He co-founded Cortera alongside Maharbiz, Muller, and Ledochowitsch to develop implantable neural devices from the lab's wireless ECoG work.