Meet our team

The brightest minds and passionate hearts

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

Uri Magaram, Ph.D.
Experimental Applications Scientist

9Y neuroscience tool developmen

Cyril Eleftheriou, Ph.D.
Neurotech Lead

17Y in neuroengineering • Ex-Novartis

Anthony Di Pasqua
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

Alexandra Karpman
Brand Experience Manager

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

Angel Bravo, Ph.D.
Hardware Development Lead

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

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

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

Samantha Portea
Lab Manager

8Y in lab operations across biotech, academia & diagnostics

Ranya Belmaachi
Product Manager

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

Dom Dizon
IT Manager

25Y in IT • 15Y in startup operations

Jennifer De la Cruz
HR Manager

8Y in HR in biotech and life sciences

Kate Litvinova
Operational Manager

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

John Wong
Operational Development Manager

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

Colin Bacon
Lab Tech

5Y in neuroscience & in vivo lab operations

Wilbur Lau
Electrical Engineer

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

Imran Khaliq
IP Strategy Lead

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

Jenny Shao
Associate Scientist

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

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