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The brightest minds and passionate hearts

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MISSION

Subsense aims to unlock limitless human potential by creating safe, effective, and accessible brain-computer interfaces that elevate lives and redefine the interaction between human cognition and technology

The leadership team

Tetiana Aleksandrova
CEO & Co-Founder

8Y leading BCI startups • 15Y in management • Top 100 woman in Tech

Gary Lo
Chief Financial Officer

25Y in leading global finance•Ex-Johnson & Johnson

Scott Meek, Ph.D.
Head of R&D

12Y leading biosensor development • 11Y in nanomaterials

Rose Monoghan
Sr. R&D Director

23Y leading medical device product development • Ex-Boston Scientific

Andrew Ostarello
Chief of Staff

20Y+ in statistics • analytics & executive operations • Former Founder • CEO & COO

Sasha Isaenko
Head of Operations

20Y in management • 13Y in Startups Finance & Integrations

Michael Nketiah
Regulatory & Clinical Trial Sr. Vice President

26Y in Regulatory • Quality & Clinicals • Led 9 medical products through FDA

Could it be you?
Head of product
Could it be you?
Marketing Communication Lead / Head

Anthony Di Pasqua, Ph.D.
Nanoscience Lead

20Y in nanomaterials • Prof. of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Vandana Verma, Ph.D.
R&D Project Manager

20Y of R&D across academia • industry and government • Ex-NASA

Cyril Eleftheriou, Ph.D.
Neurotech Lead

17Y in neuroengineering • Ex-Novartis

Angel Bravo, Ph.D.
Hardware Development Lead

15Y in optics • Al • and wearable biomedical devices • Ex-Science Corp.

Uri Magaram, Ph.D.
Experimental Applications Scientist

9Y neuroscience tool developmen

Zoë Tosi, Ph.D.
Bio Signal Processing and ML Engineer

9Y in computational neuroscience • 6Y in ML for biosignals

Alexandra Karpman
Brand Experience Manager

12Y in BCI R&D • 6Y in biomed product management

Samantha Portea
Lab Manager

8Y in lab operations across biotech • academia & diagnostics

Imran Khaliq
IP Strategy Lead

20 years of experience in patent portfolio development • licensing and monetization

Dom Dizon
IT Manager

25Y in IT • 15Y in startup operations

Ranya Belmaachi
Product Manager

5Y+ in Brain-Computer Interfaces and neurotech • Ex-OpenBCI

Jennifer De la Cruz
HR Manager

8Y in HR in biotech and life sciences

John Wong
Operational Development Manager

26Y of in operations • 10Y in building biotech facilities operations

Kate Litvinova
Operational Manager

5Y in operations & finance • 10Y in product development & procurement

Wilbur Lau
Electrical Engineer

20Y in product development & manufacturing • 10Y in wearable biomedical devices

Crystalynn Rodriquez
Business Executive Assistant

10Y+ years supporting C-level executives • Former Founder • CEO & COO

Jenny Shao
Associate Scientist

10Y in research and product development • 3Y in nanoparticles chemistry

Gabriel Mateo Semidey, Ph.D.
Research Scientist in Neuroscience

9Y in neuroscience research & tool development • 6Y in computational neuroscience

Benjamin Parker, Ph.D.
Data Scientist

7Y experience in Neuroscience

Emily Zheng
Associate Scientist

7Y R&D across nanoparticle chemistry • diagnostics and drug delivery

Colin Bacon
Lab Tech

5Y in neuroscience & in vivo lab operations

Akshat Karla
Scientific Software Engineer I

Collaborators and Advisors

Prof. Dr. Bradley Nelson

collaborator collaborator

Prof. Dr. Bradley Nelson
  • Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zürich
  • Department Head of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH
  • Chairman of the ETH Electron Microscopy Center
  • Member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation
  • Co-​Director of the Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, ETH Zürich

Prof. Salvador Pané i Vidal

collaborator collaborator

Prof. Salvador Pané i Vidal
  • Professor of Materials for Robotics at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS)
  • Co-​Director of the Multi-​Scale Robotics Lab at ETH Zürich

Prof. Ali A. Yanik

collaborator collaborator

Prof. Ali A. Yanik
  • Assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz •
  • Expert in Nanoplasmonics

Prof. Naomi J. Halas

Scientific advisor Scientific advisor

Prof. Naomi J. Halas
  • Rice University, University Professor
  • Inventor of gold nanoshells & pioneer in plasmonics
  • 2025 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry

Dr. Sergey Stavisky

Scientific advisor Scientific advisor

Dr. Sergey Stavisky
  • Co-Director of Neuroprosthetics Lab at UC Davis
  • Expert in speech & language restoration
  • 2025 McKnight Scholar Award

John-Clark Levin

Product advisor Product advisor

John-Clark Levin
  • Research Lead, Kurzweil Technologies
  • Senior AI Advisor, Greenmantle
  • Yorktown Institute Fellow
  • Harvard, Cambridge AI research

Prof. Ajeet Kaushik

Scientific advisor Scientific advisor

Prof. Ajeet Kaushik
  • Assistant Professor, Chemistry
  • NanoBioTech Laboratory, Health System Engineering, Departmental of Environmental Engineering, Florida Polytechnic University, Lakeland, FL-USA

Prof. Valeria Chiono

Scientific advisor Scientific advisor

Prof. Valeria Chiono
  • Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMEAS)
  • Politecnico di Torino
  • Member of Interdepartmental Center PolitoBIOMed Lab – Biomedical Engineering Lab
  • Substitute member Comitato Etico per la Ricerca

CAREERS

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