Forest Neurotech

Neuroscientific engineer with an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Irvine and a neural engineering postdoctoral fellowship at Caltech. His postdoctoral research at Caltech's T&C Chen Brain-Machine Interface Center introduced functional ultrasound — a brain-imaging technique adapted for high-resolution, brain-wide neural recording — as a minimally invasive BCI modality. He co-founded Forest Neurotech in October 2023 as a nonprofit Focused Research Organization to develop this ultrasound BCI approach. He maintains a Visiting Researcher role at Caltech and previously advised AE Studio.

Systems neuroscientist with a B.A. in Physics from Reed College and a Ph.D. in Systems Neuroscience from Princeton University. He spent over a decade developing implantable neural technologies at Caltech's T&C Chen Brain-Machine Interface Center, where he served as Executive Director, advancing neural decoding research for individuals with paralysis. He co-founded Forest Neurotech in 2023 as Chief Scientific Officer to translate functional ultrasound BCI approaches into clinical application. He subsequently co-founded Merge Labs alongside Norman following Forest's work.

Electrical engineer with a B.S. from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley under Jan Rabaey. His Berkeley doctoral work on miniaturised BCI chips was later licensed by Neuralink. He was a founding team member at Verily (Alphabet) and led development of the Dexcom G7 sensor in Verily's partnership with Dexcom — a program that generated over $500 million in revenue and launched worldwide in 2022. He co-founded Forest Neurotech in 2023 as CTO, bringing his expertise in miniaturised electronics and large-scale hardware programs to the ultrasound BCI platform.