Co-Founder & CEO at Augmental

Tomás is passionate about developing assistive technologies, but more generally, he wants to design the human of the future (he wants to be a Cyborg!) - to create new and extend existing human sensory, motor, and cognitive abilities in order to enhance human performance beyond natural baseline. For this, he is developing new input and output interfaces to increase the bandwidth between humans and computers. Using these augmentative devices, he hopes to learn how the brain structurally and functionally reorganizes to accommodate new synthetic senses, control capabilities, and cognitive prostheses. He is interested in how neural plasticity can be exploited, how humans learn and encode information, and how perception can be affected (and possibly engineered!) at a conscious and subconscious level. He holds a double-major in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley, and a Master's in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab.