Yasaman Soudagar

Dr. Yasaman Soudagar holds a PhD in Experimental Quantum Optics under supervision of Dr. Aephraim Steinberg at UoT and Dr. Nicolas Godbout at École Polytechnique de Montréal. She is a second time founder. Her first company, Neurescene, commercialized two hardware/software brain imaging systems for neuroscience research and went through a high profile acquisition by Bruker in 2022. The solution to a manufacturing pain point faced by Neurescence became the subject of the second startup, Exhilarare. In her talk, Yasaman clarifies how the combination of Robotics, AI and a novel method of fabrication can significantly reduce the manufacturing and supply chain complexity for manufacturing of multicomponent goods that combine electronics and optics with plastic enclosure.