Tej Tadi is the CEO of MindMaze, a company that generates 30M a year in revenue from its computing platform. The company is valued at over $1.6 billion.RocketReach - MindMaze Information . RocketReach. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
Early life and education
Tej Tadi was born in a family of physicians in Hyderabad. After studying Electronics Engineering in India, he moved to Switzerland in 2004 to pursue his PhD, which he received from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). His topic was Neural Mechanisms of the Embodied Self: Merging virtual reality and electrical neuroimaging. He is on the international advisory board of the Brain Forum."The Brain Forum – Our People". Retrieved 27 March 2017.
Public and media appearances Tej Tadi has delivered talks at scientific conferences and meetings around the world on his research. He has been profiled in Forbes, Fortune, and Techcrunch.John, Gaudiosi."This VR Company Helps Soldiers with War Injuries", Fortune. Retrieved 13 March 2017.Ingrid, Lunden. "MindMaze, Maker Of A ‘Neural Virtual Reality Platform,’ Raises $100M At A $1B Valuation", Techcrunch. Retrieved 27 March 2017. He appeared at TEDxLausanne in 2014 to speak about accelerating recovery after a stroke."TEDxLausanne 2014" talks. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
Patents filed
Awards and honours In 2009, the Pfizer Foundation awarded Tadi the neuroscience research prize.Maillard, Christelle and Peca, Servan. "Mindmaze ne va pas quitter la Suisse", Le Temps. Retrieved 27 March 2017. In 2011, he also received the Chorafas Foundation Award for his work."Chorafas Foundation Award 2011 – Tej Tadi". Retrieved 27 March 2017. In 2012, the IMD Business School honoured Tej with its startup prize."How IMD’s Executive MBA helped drive the success of neurotechnology unicorn “MindMaze“. Retrieved March 27, 2017. In 2015, The World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader."The World Economic Forum Names Mindmaze Founder Tej Tadi a Young Global Leader". startupticker.ch. Retrieved March 20, 2015.The World Economic Forum "Young Global Leaders: the Class of 2015". Retrieved 27 March 2017. In 2016, he was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year."Tej Tadi awaded Swiss Entrepreneur Of The Year™ 2016 Prize" . Retrieved 1 November 2016."MindMaze CEO receives the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2016" . Retrieved 27 March 2017.
Notable research articles Tej Tadi has co-authored several peer-reviewed journal articles in the areas of embodied self,R. T. S. G. Tadi, O. Blanke (Dir.) "Neural Mechanisms of the Embodied Self: Merging Virtual Reality and Electrical Neuroimaging". Thèse École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, n° 4964, 2011.B. Lenggenhager, R. T. S. Tadi, T. Metzinger and O. Blanke. Response to: "Virtual Reality and Telepresence" Science, vol. 318, n° 5854, 2007, p. 1241-2. manipulating bodily self-consciousness,B.Lenggenhager, T.Tadi, T.Metzinger and O.Blanke. "Video Ergo Sum: Manipulating Bodily Self-Consciousness." Science, vol. 317, n° 5841, 2007, p. 1096-9.P. Salamin, T. Tadi, O. Blanke, F. Vexo and D. Thalmann "Quantifying effects of exposure to the third and first-person perspectives in virtual-reality-based training. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies." vol. 3, n° 3, 2010, p. 272-276 boundaries of agency and conscious experienceKannape, O. A., et al. "The limits of agency in walking humans" Neuropsychologia vol. 48, issue 6,May 2010, pp. 1628-1636. humans and neurorehabilitationD. Perez-Marcos, O. Chevalley, T. Schmidlin, G. Garipelli and A. Serino et al. "Increasing upper limb training intensity in chronic stroke using embodied virtual reality: a pilot study". Journal Of Neuroengineering And Rehabilitation, vol. 14, 2017, p. 119, using virtual reality and brain imaging techniques.Tadi, T., L. S. Overney, and O. Blanke. "Three sequential brain activations encode mental transformations of upright and inverted human bodies: A high resolution evoked potential study". Neuroscience vol. 159, issue 4, April 2009, pp. 1316-1325.Cardin, Sylvain, et al. "Neurogoggles for Multimodal Augmented Reality". Proceedings of the 7th Augmented Human International Conference 2016, Article No. 48
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