Sydney Swaine-simon
Founder at NeuroTechX
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSydney Swaine-Simon is a founder and innovation strategist with 11 years of experience building programs at the intersection of deep tech, neurotechnology, and AI from Montreal. She has led international community growth and educational initiatives—co-founding NeuroTechX, scaling it to 18 chapters, and producing a multi-contributor NeuroTech Primer—while also incubating AI-for-good programs at District 3 and XPRIZE. Comfortable moving between hands-on makerspace programs and high-level funding/strategic roles, she combines technical grounding (Computer Science) with a psychology background to anticipate social impacts of emerging tech. Known for turning volunteer-driven networks into SEO-ranked educational resources and viable projects, she focuses on steering disruptive technologies toward positive societal outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSComp, Computer Science, BSComp, Computer Science at Concordia University
English, French
Github Skills (14)
brain-computer-interface9
neuroscience8
benchmark7
machine-learning7
district5
authentication5
sprint3
java2
mozilla2
deep-learning2
python1
visualization1
science1
data-science1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NeuroTechX/awesome-bci
Apr 2016 - Aug 2019
Curated Collection of BCI resources
Contributions:67 commits, 18 PRs, 67 pushes in 3 years 4 months
bci
NeuroTechX/Brainlock
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 11 months
authentication-systemauthenticationbiometric-authenticationeegbiometric
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