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Chief Operating Officer, Basis
Karen Schroeder is the COO of Basis. Before joining Basis, she was a postdoctoral research scientist in brain-computer interfaces and computational/systems neuroscience at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute, and holds a Ph.D. in neural engineering from the University of Michigan. Her research interests include neuroAI, neurotechnology, and meta-science for AI research.
I am the COO of Basis, where I work on scaling the organization and meta-science for AI research. I also dabble in some scientific work on world model learning. On the meta-science side, I think a lot about how we want to define research impact and how we could structure our projects and teams to maximize it.
My scientific background spans both the engineering and scientific sides of neurotechnology. As a postdoc in Mark Churchland’s lab at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute, I developed cortical brain-computer interface control algorithms in primates. Before that, I earned my PhD in Cindy Chestek’s neuroprosthetics lab at the University of Michigan, where I worked on BCIs and neural probe fabrication.
In my free time, I like to walk and eat my way around New York City. I also enjoy board games and checking out museums with my kids.
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