Inga Zhuravleva

I am a founder and an engineer based in San Francisco, currently building at the intersection of AI, neurotech, and physical-world systems.

Previously, I built consumer hardware at Midjourney and engineered medical devices for organ and brain preservation at Until Labs.

I studied EECS at UC Berkeley, where I researched multimodal invasive BCIs for speech and neural decoding at UCSF Chang Lab and Berkeley Speech Group. This work enabled naturalistic communication for paralyzed patients and was published in Nature.

My pull to ambitious quests comes from a young age. I was born in Moscow, but grew up in a suburb that is a historic birthplace of the Soviet space exploration. This is where Sputnik was designed, Yuri Gagarin's Vostok spacecraft was built, and where the core modules of the International Space Station were engineered. This environment instilled a very specific kind of systemic ambition. I went to a specialized physics and math school, spending nights and weekends tinkering with electronics and competing in science and engineering olympiads. That early obsession with building machines for outer space naturally evolved into decoding the ultimate frontier: the inner space of the human brain.

If you're also obsessed with the future of human cognition or are building at the edge of physical-world systems and neurotech, I'd love to hear from you. Say hi at ingarobotics [at] gmail.com !