Team
The people behind Sense
The executive team has over 60 years of combined experience spanning facial sensing, hardware, machine learning and behavioral science.
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder
Steen previously headed Snap Lab, the hardware division of Snap Inc. responsible for Spectacles augmented reality eyewear, and led Snap’s hardware investments and acquisitions. He studied economics at Harvard and product design at Stanford.
Founder and Chief Science Officer
Charles is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon specializing in facial expression restoration, with three decades of clinical experience. He studied medicine at Oxford and Imperial College, is first author on 35 issued patents and has 100 peer-reviewed publications.
Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder
Hristijan leads the machine learning that turns sensor data into behavioral insight. He has written more than 100 papers on human behavior analytics, wearable computing and ambient intelligence, and was previously named among the top 2% of scientists worldwide.
Scientific Advisors
Professor Hugo Critchley
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Psychiatrist and neuroscientist working on how signals from the body shape emotion and awareness, and co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science.
Professor Lord Ara Darzi
Imperial College London
Surgeon, innovator and health policy leader, Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London. He is a preventative health pioneer and government health advisor.
Professor Lisa Feldman Barrett
Northeastern University
Psychologist and neuroscientist, among the top 0.1% most cited scientists in the world for her research on the psychology and neuroscience of emotions.
Professor Karen Quigley
Northeastern University
Neuroscientist studying how signals from inside the body shape feelings, using lab and daily-life measures to explain variation in emotion, behavior and health.
Professor James Stone
University of Sussex
Psychiatrist and neuroscientist researching early stage testing of novel treatments and biomarkers for a stratified medicine approach to psychiatric conditions.
Professor Martin Yeomans
University of Sussex
Experimental psychologist specializing in appetite and eating behavior, as well as the study of food and drink constituents on mood and cognitive performance.