Guhan Sundar

EEG · MEG · WEARABLES · DATA INFRA — 2012 → NOW

From acquisition to insight
Instrumenting the body
Experience

Independent

Builder · 2026-07 → ONGOING

Building end-to-end tools for real-world physiological capture — one button to record, high enough quality to analyse, and enjoyable enough that it keeps happening.

6 threads ›

Alto Neuroscience

Data Scientist · 2021-08 → 2026-07

Multimodal biomarker discovery — EEG, ERP, wearables, speech, cognition — for precision psychiatry drug development; built the ERP biomarker program end to end.

8 threads ›
ALTO-101 CIAS topline resultsALTO-203 biomarker and PD resultsAcquires ALTO-207 and ALTO-208ALTO-100 Phase 2b topline resultsIPO closes; $147.9M gross proceedsIPO priced at $16.00 per shareFiles Form S-1 ahead of IPO$45M Series C financing closes$60M in additional financing$35M Series B financing closes

Kernel

Research Engineer · 2019-10 → 2021-04

Research engineer on Kernel Flux, a whole-head 432-magnetometer optically-pumped MEG system, from early prototype to validated instrument.

5 threads ›
SPIE paper: Kernel Flux OP-MEG$53M Series C for KernelBloomberg unveils Flux and Flow

Imperial College London

MSc Neurotechnology (Distinction) · Associate Researcher, Brain & Behaviour Lab · 2018-09 → 2019-10

MSc Neurotechnology with Distinction; embodied-VR motor-learning research in the Brain & Behaviour Lab, published in PLOS ONE.

3 threads ›

UC San Diego

BS Bioengineering, Regents Scholar · 2014-09 → 2018-05

BS Bioengineering, Regents Scholar; four years across three research labs, three industry internships, and a club soccer team that reached nationals.

9 threads ›
Potrero Medical (Accuryn) — manufacturing internshipEarlens — hearing-technology R&D internshipVMware — iOS / watchOS internship

Mission San Jose High School

High school · 2010-09 → 2014-06

Where the threads start: the injury that pointed everything at the body, a summer of Stanford research, a youth-sports nonprofit, and four years of varsity soccer.

4 threads ›
Ubuntu Athletics
Projects
Basketball shot tracker
Storytelling / accountability tool
Translational rodent ERP analysis
Biomarker discovery & validation
Site data acquisition & QC
ERP biomarker program
LLM tooling for trials
Kernel — Python pipelines and real-time visualisation
Kernel — human validation studies
Kernel Flux — design, assembly, and validation
Embodied VR for real-world motor learning
Senior design — EEG motor imagery BCI
ISN Lab — neural spike-to-vision mapping
Yip Lab — super-coiled polymer artificial muscles
Mali Lab — 3D-printed vascular scaffolds
Stanford SIMR — electromagnetic microrobots
Soccer
Head coach, 7th grade — Sacred Heart
First team — Imperial
Club soccer — UCSD
Varsity soccer — MSJ High
From acquisition to insight
Instrumenting the body
Soccer

Independent

Builder · 2026-07 → ONGOING

Building end-to-end tools for real-world physiological capture — one button to record, high enough quality to analyse, and enjoyable enough that it keeps happening.

6 threads ›

Alto Neuroscience

Data Scientist · 2021-08 → 2026-07

Multimodal biomarker discovery — EEG, ERP, wearables, speech, cognition — for precision psychiatry drug development; built the ERP biomarker program end to end.

8 threads ›
ALTO-101 CIAS topline resultsALTO-203 biomarker and PD resultsAcquires ALTO-207 and ALTO-208ALTO-100 Phase 2b topline resultsIPO closes; $147.9M gross proceedsIPO priced at $16.00 per shareFiles Form S-1 ahead of IPO$45M Series C financing closes$60M in additional financing$35M Series B financing closes

Kernel

Research Engineer · 2019-10 → 2021-04

Research engineer on Kernel Flux, a whole-head 432-magnetometer optically-pumped MEG system, from early prototype to validated instrument.

5 threads ›
SPIE paper: Kernel Flux OP-MEG$53M Series C for KernelBloomberg unveils Flux and Flow

Imperial College London

MSc Neurotechnology (Distinction) · Associate Researcher, Brain & Behaviour Lab · 2018-09 → 2019-10

MSc Neurotechnology with Distinction; embodied-VR motor-learning research in the Brain & Behaviour Lab, published in PLOS ONE.

3 threads ›

UC San Diego

BS Bioengineering, Regents Scholar · 2014-09 → 2018-05

BS Bioengineering, Regents Scholar; four years across three research labs, three industry internships, and a club soccer team that reached nationals.

9 threads ›
Potrero Medical (Accuryn) — manufacturing internshipEarlens — hearing-technology R&D internshipVMware — iOS / watchOS internship

Mission San Jose High School

High school · 2010-09 → 2014-06

Where the threads start: the injury that pointed everything at the body, a summer of Stanford research, a youth-sports nonprofit, and four years of varsity soccer.

4 threads ›
Ubuntu Athletics