Tej Tadi

Tej Tadi
A close-up of Tadi while giving a talk in TEDx Lausanne
Tej Tadi in 2014
Born Hyderabad, India
Alma mater École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Occupation Entrepreneur, engineer, neuroscientist and Inventor
Title Founder & CEO of MindMaze
Website www.mindmaze.com

Tej Tadi (born 1981 in Hyderabad) is a neuroscientist, engineer and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of MindMaze, a company valued at over $1 billion, that is pioneering a computing platform capturing neural and ambient signatures based on intent.[1]

Early life and education

Tadi was born in a family of physicians in Hyderabad. After studying Electronics Engineering in India, he moved to Switzerland in 2004 to pursue his PhD, which he received from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). His topic was Neural Mechanisms of the Embodied Self: Merging virtual reality and electrical neuroimaging. He is on the international advisory board of the Brain Forum.[2]

Public and media appearances

Tadi has delivered talks at scientific conferences and meetings around the world on his research. He has been profiled in Forbes, Fortune, and Techcrunch.[3][4] He appeared at TEDxLausanne in 2014 to speak about accelerating recovery after a stroke.[5]

Patents filed

US application 2016235323  Tej Tadi, Gangadhar Garipelli, Davide Manetti, Nicolas Bourdad, Daniel Perez Marcos: “Physiological Parameter Measurement and Feedback System" filing date 18.08.2016

WO application 2014154839  Tej Tadi, Leandre Bolomey, Davide Manetti, Sebastien Lasserre: “High Definition 3D Camera Device" filing date 02.10.2014

WO application 2016139576  Tej Tadi, Gangadhar Garipelli, Daniel Perez Marcos, Nicolas Bourdad, Gerardo de Jesus Chavez Castaneda, Leandre Bolomey: “Brain Activity Measurement and Feedback System” filing date 09.09.2016

US application 2017209737  Tej Tadi, Rognini Giulio: "Upper Limb Rehabilitation System" filing date 27.07.2017

Awards and honors

In 2009, the Pfizer Foundation awarded Tadi the neuroscience research prize.[6] In 2011, he also received the Chorafas Foundation Award for his work.[7] In 2012, the IMD Business School honoured Tej with its startup prize.[8] In 2015, The World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader.[9][10] In 2016, he was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year.[11][12]

Notable research articles

Tadi has co-authored several peer-reviewed journal articles in the areas of embodied self,[13][14] manipulating bodily self-consciousness,[15][16] boundaries of agency & conscious experience[17] humans and neurorehabilitation[18] using virtual reality & brain imaging techniques.[19][20]

References

  1. ↑ Aaron Tilley. "MindMaze Raises $100 Million At A $1 Billion Valuation For 'Neural Virtual Reality". Forbes. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  2. ↑ "The Brain Forum – Our People". Retrieved March 27, 2017.
  3. ↑ John, Gaudiosi."This VR Company Helps Soldiers with War Injuries", Fortune. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  4. ↑ Ingrid, Lunden. "MindMaze, Maker Of A ‘Neural Virtual Reality Platform,’ Raises $100M At A $1B Valuation", Techcrunch. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
  5. ↑ "TEDxLausanne 2014" talks. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
  6. ↑ Maillard, Christelle and Peca, Servan. "Mindmaze ne va pas quitter la Suisse", Le Temps. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Chorafas Foundation Award 2011 – Tej Tadi". Retrieved March 27, 2017.
  8. ↑ "How IMD’s Executive MBA helped drive the success of neurotechnology unicorn “MindMaze“. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
  9. ↑ "The World Economic Forum Names Mindmaze Founder Tej Tadi a Young Global Leader". startupticker.ch. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
  10. ↑ The World Economic Forum "Young Global Leaders: the Class of 2015". Retrieved March 27, 2017.
  11. ↑ "Tej Tadi awaded Swiss Entrepreneur Of The Year™ 2016 Prize". Retrieved November 01, 2016.
  12. ↑ "MindMaze CEO receives the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2016". Retrieved March 27, 2017.
  13. ↑ R. T. S. G. Tadi, O. Blanke (Dir.) "Neural Mechanisms of the Embodied Self: Merging Virtual Reality and Electrical Neuroimaging". Thèse École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, n° 4964, 2011.
  14. ↑ B. Lenggenhager, R. T. S. Tadi, T. Metzinger and O. Blanke. Response to: "Virtual Reality and Telepresence" Science, vol. 318, n° 5854, 2007, p. 1241-2.
  15. ↑ B.Lenggenhager, T.Tadi, T.Metzinger and O.Blanke. "Video Ergo Sum: Manipulating Bodily Self-Consciousness." Science, vol. 317, n° 5841, 2007, p. 1096-9.
  16. ↑ P. Salamin, T. Tadi, O. Blanke, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann "Quantifying effects of exposure to the third and first-person perspectives in virtual-reality-based training. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies." vol. 3, n° 3, 2010, p. 272-276
  17. ↑ Kannape, O. A., et al. "The limits of agency in walking humans" Neuropsychologia vol. 48, issue 6,May 2010, pp. 1628-1636.
  18. ↑ D. Perez-Marcos, O. Chevalley, T. Schmidlin, G. Garipelli and A. Serino et al. "Increasing upper limb training intensity in chronic stroke using embodied virtual reality: a pilot study". Journal Of Neuroengineering And Rehabilitation, vol. 14, 2017, p. 119,
  19. ↑ Tadi, T., L. S. Overney, and O. Blanke. "Three sequential brain activations encode mental transformations of upright and inverted human bodies: A high resolution evoked potential study". Neuroscience vol. 159, issue 4, April 2009, pp. 1316-1325.
  20. ↑ Cardin, Sylvain, et al. "Neurogoggles for Multimodal Augmented Reality". Proceedings of the 7th Augmented Human International Conference 2016, Article No. 48
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