Team

We started 9th Sense in August 2011, out of Singularity University at NASA Ames, a program focused on building breaking edge technology that makes the world a better place. Within the first two weeks, we had made our first 9 sales. Currently we have two products in alpha phase, “Telo” and “Helo”, for different market needs. The official product releasing date will be announced soon.

Dan Barry, M.D., Ph.D. Dan’s background is in electrical engineering and medicine. Along the way he spent some time off the planet. Recently he’s been building robots, both autonomous and remote controlled.

Zhengqin “James” Fan, B.S. Zhengqin received his bachelor degree in mechanics and has 7 years experience in building robots for both health care and research use. He is passionate about social entrepreneurship and technology innovation, and had a great time leading a big student organization before starting 9th Sense.

Alaina Hardie, B.S. Alaina’s expertise is in programming, security, hosting and networking. She started with the Apple and has been making computers do neat things ever since. Her interests include Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, food, affective robotics, and artificial consciousness, not necessarily in that order.

Nathaniel Manning, M.A. Nathaniel’s work orbits around the theme of building business models to grow inventions that make the world a better place. As a curious technologist he has worked in clean tech throughout Asia, founded web startups such as TheInteract.net, helps build social businesses such as Runa.org and Ushahidi, and attended Singularity University. Nat likes to build excel models and robots.

Tasha McCauley, B.A. Tasha loves building robots. After studying robotics and artificial intelligence at University of Southern California, she joined the faculty of Singularity University, where she helped students learn about robotics and other accelerating technologies.

Marco Mascorro, B.S. Marco studied Mechatronics Engineering. After working at the BMW Group in Germany, he spent some time in Japan building robots. For the past 6 years, he has been participating in robotics competitions and exhibitions such as RocoCup, RoboGames and the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo, which led him to earn an award from Discovery Channel. Marco likes traveling, other cultures and meeting new people.