Max Hodak
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Max Hodak is an American entrepreneur and biomedical engineer. He is the founder and CEO of Science Corporation, a company that develops advanced neural technologies to restore vision and cognition.
Early life and education
Hodak was born in New York State.[1] He went to Duke University, where he majored in biomedical engineering. There, he worked at the brain-computer interface (BCI) lab run by Miguel Nicolelis.[2] He graduated in 2012.[3]
Career
While a student at Duke, Hodak founded MyFit, a college-matching and analytics platform that assisted high school students and their families by predicting their chance of getting into a collage and helping them improve it.[4] It was acquired by Naviance in October 2010.[3]
In 2012, Hodak founded Transcriptic a robotic cloud laboratory for life sciences that allows researchers to run experiments remotely via code.[5]
In 2016, Hodak co-founded Neuralink. He served as president until early 2021.[2]