Alexandra Elbakyan

Alexandra is a BS in CS from Kazakh National Technical University in Almaty, Kazakhstan, specializing in information security. During the last year of her study, she worked on a security system that would recognize individuals by their brainwaves. After obtaining her BS she worked for a while with the Human Media Interaction Group at the University of Twente on the mind-controlled game Bacteria Hunt. Later she joined the Human Higher Nervous Activity Lab dedicated to the study of consciousness. She also worked with The Brain Machine Interfacing Initiative at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg on the development of hand prostheses controlled by brain signals.
Now she is avidly pursuing the project of creating a brain implant that would expand the consciousness of its bearer.