All articles from Dr. Divya Chander, MD, PhD

Divya Chander, MD, PhD is a physician, neuroscientist, neuroethicist, futurist, entrepreneur and global keynote speaker. She is a practicing anesthesiologist (formerly at Stanford University Department of Anesthesiology) with specializations in neuroanesthesia and expertise in trauma and critical care. She currently serves as Chair for Neuroscience at the Singularity Group, a Silicon Valley think tank for data and technology acceleration, applications, and ethics. Dr. Chander is part of the XPRIZE Brain Trusts for Health and Space domains, designing prizes that stimulate innovation to serve billions on the planet. As a member of the Stimson Center Loomis Innovation Council, and past Fellow at the Atlantic Council Geotech Center, she is collaborating with governments and global industry to foster good data and technology policy choices for key stakeholders around the world in the area of biometric data rights, data trusts, data security, public health, and pandemic resilience. She also serves as an Advisor to the Extended Reality Safety Initiative (XRSI) and is a member of the Medical XRSI Council. Dr. Chander's expertise in neural signal processing has led to her developing mind-reading algorithms to automate tracking of states of consciousness. Her research interests center around mapping consciousness, how consciousness will be altered by human augmentation, and how mapping consciousness in humans may enable us to recognize it in non-human, intelligent beings. Dr. Chander is founder and CEO of a digital, AI-based remote brain monitoring platform to detect brain failure and to support brain health. She serves as medical, science, and technology advisor and board member to a number of companies in the medical, space life sciences, and neurotechnology spaces. Dr. Chander is also passionate about space life sciences and medicine. A finalist for astronaut selection and an alumnus of the International Space University, Dr. Chander has performed remote simulations of trauma rescues, anesthesia and surgery in Mars analogue settings, and is designing habitats and medical spaces to support human space exploration and astronaut health.