Tiny Blue Dot Summit 2023

  • Elizabeth R. Koch

    FOUNDER

    Elizabeth R. Koch is the Founder of Tiny Blue Dot Foundation. Koch turned a personal mission of insight and experience into a movement to help people understand and overcome the limits of their own perception.

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  • Christof Koch, Ph.D.

    CHIEF SCIENTIST

    Christof Koch is the Chief Scientist at Tiny Blue Dot Foundation. Koch also serves as Chief Scientist of the Allen Institute’s MindScope Program, which investigates at the cellular level how cortex and related brain-structures give rise to behavior and consciousness.

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  • Giulio Tononi, M.D., Ph.D.

    ADVISORY BOARD

    Giulio Tononi, M.D., Ph.D. is a member of Tiny Blue Dot Foundation’s advisory board. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Tononi is the Distinguished Professor in Consciousness Science, the David P. White Chair in Sleep Medicine, and the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness.

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  • Alexander Bystritsky, M.D., Ph.D.

    ADVISORY BOARD; EXECUTIVE EMERITUS

    Alexander Bystritsky, M.D., Ph.D. is a member of Tiny Blue Dot Foundation’s advisory board. Bystritsky is currently a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences in the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California, Los Angeles and also, the President of the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies and CEO of Brainsonix Inc.

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  • Hartmut Neven

    ADVISORY BOARD

    Hartmut Neven, Ph.D. is a member of Tiny Blue Dot Foundation’s advisory board. Neven is a Vice President of Engineering at Google. There, he founded and manages the Quantum Artificial Intelligence lab, which works to dramatically accelerate computational tasks for machine intelligence.

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  • Zeinab Barati, Ph.D.

    PROGRAM MANAGER

    Zeinab Barati, Ph.D. serves as the Program Manager for Tiny Blue Dot Foundation. Barati supports the funded projects in the scientific and clinical study of the neuronal basis of consciousness.

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