At Neureflect, we're a passionate team of doctors, scientists, and engineers with diverse skill sets and backgrounds. We are united and driven by a single mission: to revolutionize health with cutting-edge technology for humans and animals. We strive to unlock the secrets of the brain and body, seeking to bring about a new era of biomedical breakthroughs.
Meet the brilliant minds behind Neureflect's innovative microchip system, designed to empower researchers across various fields. From drug development to neuroscience to artificial intelligence, our team is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what's possible.
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Andrew Charles is a Professor of Neurology and director of one of the largest academic migraine programs in the world. He holds an endowed chair dedicated to migraine and headache studies. The work of this program includes basic and clinical research, education, and care of patients with headache and pain disorders. The program laboratory focuses on physiological and pharmacological mechanisms of migraine, pain, and sleep with a particular interest in the development of novel technologies and therapies. He has published more than 120 papers and book chapters, with a current h-index of 66.
His mission is to use his research in migraines, headaches, and neuroscience to create technologies to improve the health of humans and animals.
Guido Faas has always been interested in science and technology. From a young age, he and his brother (Eugene Faas) sought to understand how stuff works and how to make stuff work. He has kept this interest throughout his life and is self-taught, acquiring a technical understanding of a variety of fields such as electronics, mechanical engineering, and software development.
With a PhD in biology (specializing in neurophysiology), he has worked as a successful neuroscientist for more than 25 years at the University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University, Baylor College of Medicine, and University of California, Los Angeles. His approach to science has always been in the niche between neuroscience and engineering. Utilizing his self-taught skills in microscopy, electronics, and mathematical modeling, Guido has tackled neuroscience questions by pioneering novel neuro-behavioral recording techniques. In 2017 he started developing a microchip-based system to continuously measure brain activity and behavior in mice. Together with Dmitri he further developed this into a patented technique used in award-winning sleep and migraine research.
Through Neureflect, Guido envisions a further development of these bio-tracking techniques to applications in a wide variety of fields such as (but not limited to) medicine and veterinary care.
Dmitri Yousef Yengej is a co-founder of Neureflect Inc and renowned neuroscientist. Dmitri’s expertise in medical devices, advanced bio-tracking, AI/ML, and software development makes him a key player in our team. Growing up, Dmitri loved robots. He dreamed of creating an intelligent one, partly because it would be cool, and partly because he hoped it could do his chores. This fascination steered him towards neuroscience and AI, which was the path to co-founding Neureflect Inc.
Dmitri has a Ph.D. in Computational and Cellular Neuroscience from the University of Amsterdam. His post-doctoral work at UCLA, together with Dr. Faas and Dr. Charles, contributed to our modern understanding of the effects of caffeine on sleep, characteristics of cortical spreading depression, and the development of a patented microchip-based system for recording neurovascular activity. Their research has been recognized by the American Headache Association’s Journal, and was among top-cited articles.
Dmitri's vision is for Neureflect Inc. to be a leader in leveraging technology to enhance the health and well-being of human beings and animals. He is dedicated to making health technology accessible to everyone.
From a very young age, Eugène was passionate about electronics and computers. He quickly developed these interests into his favorite pastime, and by the age of 12, he had transformed his parents’ garage into his ‘personal electronics lab’, building his own electronics and computers. At this young age, he also proved to be a budding entrepreneur, quickly ‘promoting’ himself from disassembling TVs to repairing them for neighbors and family friends. He continued on this path, following his passion for electrical engineering. After receiving a formal education as an electrical engineer, he started a small company in 1993 with two friends. This company, Syrinx Industrial Electronics, specializes in customized electronics and software solutions for various industries. For the past 30 years, they have been helping customers with creative solutions in a wide variety of sectors such as infrastructure, food, clean room facilities, pharmaceuticals, facility management, and heavy industry.
As a member Neureflect's team, Eugène brings unparalleled experience and creative insight into the development and manufacturing of electronic products and software.
Shrayes Raman has always had a passion for technology. From a young age, he has had a burning curiosity seeking to understand the inner workings of the many gadgets and gizmos of the modern world. In middle school, he began to learn how to code, cementing computer science as a passion moving forward.
Shrayes knew he wanted to be at the convergence of medicine and technology, leading him to pursue a major in Computational Biology at UCLA. There he joined the Charles/Faas lab as an undergraduate researcher, where he began his journey into the fields of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, Shrayes studied different areas of ML to solve problems at the lab remotely. This allowed him to gain first-hand experience in the challenges associated with modeling real datasets. He also has experience in building and maintaining the servers that process the massive amounts of data in the lab. Shrayes has been part of several papers published with the lab, having done research in building models that combine video and sensor data to model animal behavior.
As part of the team, Shrayes applies his background in ML and software engineering to help tackle all of the software needs of the company. Shrayes is involved with all data pipeline stages, from acquisition to preprocessing and analysis. Shrayes works closely with Dmitri to form the backbone of the Applied Machine Learning core of the group. Shrayes is committed to increasing the accessibility of technologies that promote health and wellness.
Kethan Raman is a second-year student at UCLA and is pursuing a rigorous academic program, majoring in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, two fields that perfectly blend his passion for problem-solving and innovation. In addition to his academic pursuits, Kethan has gained valuable practical experience in Financial Modeling and Business Strategies, with specific involvement in Financial Analysis and Valuation. He also has training in behavioral economics in the field of decision-making, and risk and uncertainty analysis.
He has always had an aptitude for entrepreneurship and business investigation that he credits to watching too many episodes of Shark Tank.
His goal for Neureflect is for the company to leverage Machine Learning and High-Performance Computing to create a suite of smart devices to monitor animal health, and proactively address health challenges for dogs, cats, horses, camels, livestock, and other applications of this technology
