Computer Science, Psychology and Neuroscience are pleased to present Ned Sahin ’98.
Currently Dr. Sahin is focusing his efforts on Brain Power LLC, a company developing technologies that incorporate Google Glass to help treat autism. The Harvard graduate is using his expertise and his company to research and develop consumer wearables to aid in tracking and treating key features of neurodevelopmental disorders, and “gamified” therapy apps to treat autism.
His company is currently developing a Glass app that helps autistic children recognize subtle changes in emotions via facial cues, and rewards them in-app for holding eye contact with subjects through the device’s display.
He will be discussing his work during his talk Autism and Google Glass: Assessment and Intervention Software Grounded in Brain Sciences.
Dr. Sahin is a neuroscientist and neurotechnology entrepreneur. He holds degrees in neuroscience from Williams College (BA), MIT (Master’s), and Harvard (PhD), and completed post-doctoral fellowships at UCSD Medical School and the Salk Institute in San Diego. His academic work has been published in journals such as Science and Nature Neuroscience, and he has been invited to present his research in ten countries.
He also worked at Bell Labs and in startups and mid-sized companies, in Boston, San Diego, London and Dublin; and has been the Principal Investigator for three military contracts for wearable brain monitoring systems to assess and modulate cognitive states. Dr. Sahin founded Brain Power, LLC to bring neuroscience and technological ideas and innovations to people who can directly benefit from them.
Dr. Sahin is a hands-on leader of the growing Brain Power team, actively participating in coding software, as well as designing and producing hardware add-ons for Google Glass — to unlock the power of this nascent wearable platform to use it as a neuro-assistive device that in turn can unlock the power of your brain.