Elemind

Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology at MIT and full member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He received SB and MEng degrees from MIT in electrical engineering and physics in 1999, and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Stanford in 2005 under Jennifer Raymond. He joined MIT's faculty in 2007 and is best known for co-developing optogenetics — earning the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences — and expansion microscopy. He previously co-founded Cognito Therapeutics (2016) with Li-Huei Tsai. He co-founded Elemind to apply his brain-stimulation expertise to non-invasive, AI-guided wearables.

Engineer with B.S. degrees in EECS and Aeronautics & Astronautics from MIT, followed by an M.S. in Aeronautics and a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, both from MIT. He has collaborated with NASA, DARPA, Boeing, and WHOI on projects spanning Mars rover systems to autonomous aircraft and cybersecurity. He previously co-founded NuVu, a creativity-education company, before joining Elemind as CTO. At Elemind he co-invented the patented real-time signal processing algorithms that detect and entrain brainwave states to accelerate sleep onset.

Lecturer in the Department of Brain Sciences at Imperial College London and founding fellow of the UK Dementia Research Institute centre at Imperial. His Interventional Systems Neuroscience Lab develops tools and principles to treat neurodegenerative disorders by directly controlling aberrant neural activity. He received the Science & PINS Prize for Neuromodulation in 2018 for pioneering work on non-invasive deep-brain stimulation. His expertise in low-intensity focused ultrasound and temporal interference stimulation informs Elemind's closed-loop neuromodulation approach.