Seeed Studio: Embracing the Future of Wearable AI & Personal Agents

As the leading AI wearable hardware provider, Seeed Studio sponsored our Augmentation Lab Summer 2024 AI Residency in Cambridge, MA. Bringing together 16 passionate technologists from diverse disciplines to innovate at the intersection of AI, wearable technology, and human-machine symbiosis.

London Evening Standard: Brain implants: The reality behind Elon Musk’s sci-fi dreams of mind control

My team’s DDog project was featured as a novel system that lets the brain control a Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot, using glasses, a mobile app, and two iPhones.

HummingBird Ventures: Minute Scientist

Biotech Investor, Tendai Chisowa, featured my work in the Hummingbird Ventures Minute Scientist series. It enables research students and post-docs to share their work irrespective of a recent publication and foster new connections that inspire the next generation of scientists.

NeuroTechX Boston, MIT Press, + BrainMind: A Conversation on Ethical Neuroinnovation

An evening discussion on neurotechnology, ethics, and society in the MIT Media Lab with a panel including: Anna Wexler, Adam Molnar (Neurable), Ana Maiques (Neuroelectrics), Rachel Conrad (HMS Neuroethics), and Benjamin Stecher (Tomorrow Edition).

I asked the panel about the future of neurotech developing with opensource IP in contrast to its private history with DARPA. The talk discussed responsible innovation as it relates to neurotech entrepreneurs, investors, clinicians, and patients. Precisely, how neuroethics can be integrated into neuroinnovation that concerns brain data ownership, unique BCI consent issues, and ethical implications of performance-, memory-, and personality-altering brain technologies.

BOSTINNO: NucleateDojo House

The co-living space, known as "Dojo House," will host six future biotech entrepreneurs and scientists ages 19-22 this summer as they kick start their careers while participating in workshops, dinners and learning groups among themselves and the Greater Boston life sciences community.

The house is named after and run by Nucleate Dojo, a global program that supports undergraduate and non-graduate students within life sciences with education opportunities, community building and funding. The organization says Dojo House is the first-ever, biotech-focused house for young scientists.

BrainBlots Featured on a Times Square Billboard at NFT NYC 2022

Debuted the world’s 1st mind-controlled art piece on The Digital Godzilla Billboard under Vizmesh Gallery during NFT NYC. Then, got interviewed by the New York-Based “In The Field“ Channel for emerging art and technology trends in Times Square.

Boston Business Journal

The Nucleate DojoHouse was featured as the day's biggest innovation story in the Beat Newsletter. Featured as one of the biotechnology fellows.

CryptoLife: BrainBlots

Crypto Life TO is an independent YouTube docuseries about the underground crypto culture alongside 25k subscribers. It features in-depth interviews and stories on early Bitcoin adopters, traders, blockchain experts, fintech pioneers, and emerging technology NFT artists. This episode was a special feature for BrainBlots’ inner workings as an emerging neurotechnology art collective that makes BraiNFTs.

VECTORVAULT: The Intersection of Neuroscience and Digital Art

Interviewed by Toronto based Creative Director and Digital Visual Artist, Adam Jarvis, for his magazine that puts a spotlight on outstanding digital and vector art creativity world-wide. He also shared his BrainBlots experience at one of our underground art shows.

Building the Brain-Interfacing Future | Yasmeen Hmaidan

Featured on the Sav Sidorov podcast as a student and researcher at the University of Toronto, studying psychology, computer science and mathematics. We talk about our current understanding of the brain, cryonics, advances in invasive vs non-invasive BCIs, frictionless technology, tighter feedback loops, and the future of neurotechnology in 200 years.

CRYPTO LIFE TO: BrainBlots

BrainBlots was interviewed in the PETER TRIANTOS X NFT GOAT STUDIO Art Show. Where the event attendees and world-renowned Toronto-based contemporary artist got his brain scanned while making a live painting in his studio at the art gallery district.

#19: University Vice President, Higher Academia, Support | The Student Spotlight Podcast

I was joined by the new Vice-President of the University of Toronto and Principal of UTM, Dr. Alexandra Gillespie! Alex is also an internationally renowned researcher, published author, and director of the UofT Old Books New Science Lab. She’s won many awards in recognition of her outstanding teaching and is a Rhodes Scholar! In this episode, I got to know her a little bit better as we discuss being a female in academia, succeeding in leadership roles, and diversity/inclusion.

This episode was a collaboration between The Student Spotlight and WiSC Talks Podcast, where we explore the highs and lows of student life as well as highlight stories of successful women in different industries with the Women in Science and Computing Club at UofT.