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President and CEO
Krishna Ika
Krishna Ika, a serial entrepreneur and innovator, has founded and managed a diverse range of companies over his two-decade-long career. He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Brainwave Science and is also the CEO and President of Basil Health, a new and exciting healthcare company focused on developing innovative products.
Throughout his career, Krishna has held various leadership positions such as CEO, Founder, and President of successful companies in healthcare, information technology, security, and software consulting. He is the Founder and President of Government Works, an information technology company specializing in the federal space with a primary focus on healthcare. Government Works has provided products and services to several U.S. departments, including the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, among others. In late 2019, Blue Cross Blue Shield, one of the largest health insurance groups, acquired Government Works’ healthcare asset.
Prior to Government Works, Krishna was the cofounder of ikaSystems, a leader in enterprise managed care, which raised over $140 million from Providence Equity and was later sold to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. He also cofounded Envitec Corp, which was named the 34th fastest-growing commercial consulting corporation in the New England area.
Krishna’s most recent ventures include RxAdvance and NirvanaHealth, a progressive pharmacy benefits management and healthcare automation company. RxAdvance has partnered with and is funded by large groups like Centene and Walgreens, reflecting Krishna’s continued success in the industry. With Basil Health, Krishna is focused on creating innovative solutions that will improve the lives of people around the world.
Dr. Niels Birbaumer
Niels Birbaumer, Ph.D. is a Professor Emeritus of Behavioral Neurobiology at the University of Tubingen, Germany and a Guest Professor of Neuroengeneering at The University of Padova, Italy. He is one of the highest decorated Neuroscientists in Germany and a pioneer of research on the neurobehavioral treatment of criminal psychopathy, epilepsy, and motor paralysis.
He and his team have developed brain computer interfaces (BCI) that allow direct transfer of brain activity information to computers. This neurolink technology supports computer aided self-regulation of brain systems includingbrain communication in paralysis, movement and behavior change. His research in the sphere of criminal justice has helped identify the regions of the brain responsible for psychopathic criminal behavior and tendencies. He has also developed and tested behavioral neurofeedback training for criminal psychopaths. He and his team have shown that concealed information can be uncovered by application of transcranial non-invasive currents to the brain.
Prof. Birbaumer has published more than 700 scientific papers in prestigious peer-reviewed journals such as Nature and Science. He is the author of more than 20 books, chief among them being the bestselling book “Your Brain Knows More Than You Think”, which is translated into many languages.
Professor Birbaumers’ seminal work has made him a highly sought-after authority who has held several important academic positions globally. Among them, he is a Professor of Psychology at the Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania; visiting Professor at the University of Madison, Wisconsin; and a visiting Professor at the NIH, Bethesda, Maryland in the US. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tubingen, Germany, and Professor at the University of Munich, Germany; visiting Professor at Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, Professor at University of Padova, Italy and Professor at the University of Trento, Italy.
He is a Fellow of several scientific societies such as AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), APA (American Psychological Association), President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) and several European Scientific Organizations. He is member of the German National Academy of Science and the Academy of Science and Literature, Mainz, Germany.
Professor Birbaumer received his Ph.D. in Experimental and Clinical Psychology at the University of Vienna 1969; completed his clinical education at the Middlesex Hospital, London, and the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich; and became Full Professor of Physiological and Clinical Psychology at the Univ. of Tubingen in 1975. Prof. Birbaumer has received four prestigious honorary doctorates from the Universities of Jena (Germany); Complutense University, Madrid; University of Vienna, Austria; and University of Salzburg, Austria.
He is a certified Psychological Psychotherapist and was director of several clinical programs at Universities and Neurological Hospitals, chief among them being in University of Tubingen and at Ospedale San Camillo, Venice, Italy.
Chief Scientist
Chief Architect
Laxmidhar Behera
Laxmidhar Behera, Ph.D. is the Director of IIT Mandi, as well as a teacher, researcher, author and industrial collaborator working for over 25 years in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Machine Learning.
Professor Behera has more than 280 publications, journals and conference proceedings, including many peer-reviewed articles receiving best paper awards. His co-authored book, “Intelligent Systems and Control”, an Oxford University Press publication, is now in its 5th reprint and is a prescribed graduate level textbook in many universities across the world. Laxmidhar has authored several books pioneering the fields of artificial intelligence, robotics and machine learning. He has also been Associate Editor for two International journals published by Taylor & Francis and Hindwai.
His research work lies in the convergence of machine learning, control theory, robotic vision and heterogeneous robotic platforms, in which he has contributed innovative advancements in the theoretical and experimental paradigms for this field. His other research interests include intelligent control, semantic signal/music processing, neural networks, Brain Computer Interface (BCI), control of cyber-physical systems, and cognitive modeling. Professor Behera is the recipient of many large exclusive grants to support his ground-breaking research.
Automating industry with innovative science, Prof. Behera has initiated academic-industrial collaborations with TCS, India; Renault Nissan; BEL, Bangalore, India; and ADNOC, Abu Dhabi. These collaborations have made significant technological developments in the areas of robotics-based warehouse automation, vision and drone-guided driver assistance systems, and drone-guided pipeline inspection systems. He has established international research collaborations with ETH, Zurich; University of Texas, San Antonio, US; University of Edinburgh, UK; University of Ulster, UK; NAIST, Japan; and Deakin University, Australia.
Lending his genius to many academic institutions Prof. Behera has worked as an Assistant Professor at BITS Pilani (1995- 1999), and as a Reader at Intelligent Systems Research Center (ISRC), University of Ulster, United Kingdom (2007-2009). He has been a Visiting Researcher/Professor at FHG, Germany, and ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. He has supervised 19 PhD Student theses to completion and is guiding 16 PhD students currently. He is a Fellow of INAE and Senior Member of IEEE, and a Technical Committee member on IEEE SMC on Robotics and Intelligent Systems.
Prof. Behera received BSc (engineering) and MSc (engineering) degrees from NIT, Rourkela in 1988 and 1990, respectively. He received his PhD degree from IIT Delhi in 1996. He pursued his postdoctoral studies in the German National Research Center for Information Technology, GMD, Sank Augustin, Germany, during 2000-2001. Prof. Laxmidhar Behera remains a global innovator and visionary in his field.
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