Thomas Reardon is a co-founder at Flourish [1][3], a neuroscience-driven AI research company. According to his LinkedIn profile, he holds the position of Venture Partner [2]. Reardon's professional background includes previous roles in technology entrepreneurship and product development at major technology companies.
Founded
Insights & ideas
Reardon's central idea is that human-machine communication suffers from a massive bandwidth imbalance, with the nervous system receiving sensory input six to seven orders of magnitude faster than it can output through movement, since output is bottlenecked by roughly 200 slow muscles compared to millions of parallel input neurons [1]. This imbalance motivated him to found CTRL-labs, aiming at neuro augmentation rather than the pathology-focused orientation of most academic neuroscience, seeking to let people communicate with computers through muscular signals instead of keyboards or voice [1].
He also argues for a philosophy of targeting scale problems and whole populations before clinical ones, believing that working on mass-market augmentation first, then partnering with clinical practitioners to adapt those discoveries, moves the underlying science forward faster than starting from diseased populations [1].
Education
Columbia University · PhD, Neuroscience2010 - 2016
Duke University · MS, Neuroscience2008 - 2010
Media & appearances
- S4E3: Computational Neuroscientist Dr. Thomas Reardon on ...Aug 16, 2023
Thomas Reardon discusses his work on neural interfaces and brain-computer communication, explaining how the human nervous system has a massive bandwidth imbalance with machines—receiving information at rates millions of times faster than we can output through movement. He describes founding CTRL-labs to work on neuro augmentation by enabling people to communicate with computers and machines through muscular signals rather than keyboards or voice, allowing for higher bandwidth human-machine interaction.
- S4E3: Computational Neuroscientist Dr. Thomas Reardon on Communication between Minds and MachinesTheory and Practice · Aug 16, 2023
- Mark Reardon Show - Podcast - Apple Podcasts
- Neural Interfaces And The Future Of Human-Computer ...
- Hidden Forces: Neural Interfaces and the Future of Human ...
- Neural Interfaces and the Future of Human-Computer ...
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