Tomás Vega

About Tomás Vega

Tomás is passionate about developing assistive technologies, but more generally, he wants to design the human of the future (he wants to be a Cyborg!)- to create new and extend existing human sensory, motor, and cognitive abilities in order to enhance human performance beyond natural baseline. For this, he is developing new input and output interfaces to increase the bandwidth between humans and computers. Using these augmentative devices, he hopes to learn how the brain structurally and functionally reorganizes to accommodate new synthetic senses, control capabilities, and cognitive prostheses. He is interested in how neural plasticity can be exploited, how humans learn and encode information, and how perception can be affected (and possibly engineered!) at a conscious and subconscious level. He holds a double-major in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley, and a Master\'s in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab.

Experience

1. Advisor

   Dust

   Aug 2024 — Present

   Dust is an applied science lab built to help you change how you sleep, what you dream, and who you are when you wake up.

Education

• Markham College, Lima, Peru

  High School, Computer Science

  1999 — 2011

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Master's of Science (M.S.), Media Arts and Sciences

  2017 — 2019

• University of California, Berkeley

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science and Cognitive Science

  2012 — 2017

Skills

• Ruby on Rails
• Eagle
• Human Computer Interaction
• Entrepreneurship
• R&D
• Assistive Technology
• Scheme
• Sensory Extension
• Python
• Html
• Web Design
• Css
• Haptics
• Javascript
• Research
• Rapid Prototyping
• Swift
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Java
• Arduino
• Ruby
• Brain-Computer Interfaces
• Start-Ups
• Illustrator
• Wearables
• Sensory Substitution
• Internet of Things
• C
• Autodesk Fusion 360
• Digital Fabrication
• Algorithms
• Markdown
• Human Augmentation
• Objective-C