Tomás Vega
Co-Founder, CEO & CTO at DUST
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTomás Vega is a founder-engineer and scientist blending 12 years of experience in wearable interfaces, brain-computer interfaces, and cognitive augmentation, currently leading Augmental as Co‑Founder, CEO & CTO in San Francisco. Trained at UC Berkeley (CS + Cognitive Science) and the MIT Media Lab, he builds hands-free, high-bandwidth human–computer interfaces and studies how neural plasticity adapts to synthetic senses and cognitive prostheses. His background spans startups and elite labs—Neuralink, MIT Fluid Interfaces, Apple—where he shipped hardware, embedded systems, electrophysiology tools, and rapid prototypes. Tomás uniquely combines deep technical fluency (PCB/microfabrication, embedded software, machine learning) with human-centered research on perception, sleep engineering, and emotional regulation. He advises open-source smart glasses and applied sleep science ventures, signaling a rare mix of product leadership and translational research aimed at extending human capabilities.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science and Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science and Cognitive Science at University of California, BerkeleyMaster's of Science (M.S.) Media Arts and Sciences, Master's of Science (M.S.) Media Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School Computer Science, High School Computer Science at Markham College, Lima, Peru
Spanish, English
Github Skills (49)
docker10
visualization10
bokeh10
jupyter10
twilio-api10
mms10
data-visualisation10
ipywidgets10
pyodide10
altair10
twilio10
vonage9
javascript9
holoviews9
python9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tomasero/byte-it-app
May 2019 - Jan 2020
Teeth gesture classification
Contributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 8 months
pythondeep-learningmachine-learninggestureteeth
tomasero/poetika
Nov 2016 - Dec 2019
MBED == [ Serial Port ] ==> Node Server == [ Web Socket ] ==> HTML/CS/JS
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
web-socket-serversocketsocket-ioserialweb-server
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