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Jeff Coleman – CEO & Co-Founder
As an entrepreneur, Jeff enjoys helping companies make the leap from an idea to a viable business. BrainLeap Technologies has an opportunity to help millions of attention-challenged children improve the attention skills needed to do better at school and more broadly in life. Our approach to training attention is both novel and measurable.
Jeff is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business and has worked with many small and growing businesses over the past 20 years – from biotech to software to fashion photography. Whether as an employee or consultant, his focus has been on helping them grow.
Leanne Chukoskie, PhD – Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder
In collaboration with Jeanne, Leanne conceptualized the ideas for the attention training games and the gamified assessments, ensuring they incorporate the critical elements necessary to train and accurately measure attention. She provides scientific guidance on software development efforts and creates new content for thought leadership.
Leanne is a co-director of the Research on Autism and Development Lab at UC San Diego, an Assistant Research Scientist in the Institute for Neural Computation, Assistant Science Director of the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC), and the Director of the Power of NeuroGaming (PoNG) Center at the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego.
Jeanne Townsend, PhD – Co-Founder & Scientific Advisor
Jeanne provides scientific guidance to the BrainLeap team and oversees data analysis. She is a Professor in the Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego where she directs the Research on Autism and Development Lab. She is a Neuropsychologist and Cognitive Neuroscientist whose research focus is on the identification of the brain bases of cognition. She is especially interested in attentional processes.
Jeanne has studied selective and shifting attention and the underlying brain networks in both typical and atypical development for more than two decades, and has received NIH funding to conduct large studies of attentional function in autism, other developmental disorders and healthy aging. Her previous work has identified deficits in visual attention in autism including delayed attention disengagement, orienting and shifting and a severely restricted attentional field. Most recently, Jeanne and her colleagues have begun to incorporate innovative technology into their research and are developing new approaches to translate their research into effective interventions.
The gaze-driven video games to train attention and eye movement were developed with funding from the National Institutes of Mental Health (R21/R33 MH096967).
Joseph Snider, PhD – Chief Technology Officer
Joe is BrainLeap’s lead programmer and gets the hardware and software to effectively talk with each other. He keeps abreast of changes in the technology landscape and how BrainLeap can take advantage of them.
Joe maintains an appointment at UC San Diego where he directs the Motion Capture and Brain Dynamics laboratory at the Institute for Neural Computation at UC San Diego and co-directs the Power of Neurogaming (PoNG) Center. Joe likes to use the tools of virtual reality, neural imaging, and psychophysics to study how humans deal with the noisy, ever-changing, and confusing environments we evolved in. Through this and his training in computational physics, he has 10+ years of integrating cutting-edge pieces of technology into coherent systems.
Donna Auguste, PhD – Director of Business Development
Donna brings 30 years of industry experience and a background in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education research to BrainLeap. She is focused on business development and excited about where future research may take us. She’s also very good at finding bugs in software 🙂
Michael Gramlich – Software Developer & Test Engineer
Michael has designed and built one of the BrainLeap games and works on improving usability on an ongoing basis – from improving game play to the user interface. He is also BrainLeap’s primary quality assurance tester.
Lilian Angel – User Experience Designer & Developer
Lilian contributes her skills in design and software development to improve the player’s user experience. She received her Masters in Human Computer Interaction, and has a passion for human augmentation technology. She enjoys creating software that improves learning and helps people live more effective lives.
Corey Pritts – Graphic Designer & Animator
At BrainLeap, Corey uses his creativity to make video games for children with autism and ADHD. This is meaningful to him because, as a child, he suffered from ADHD and the medication they provided to remedy his condition drained his personality and soul. He’s happy to be part of an alternative way to help children with something that affected him personally. Plus, it incorporates his lifetime love of video games.
Erick Sanchez Ramirez – Marketing Specialist & Research Associate
Erick likes to apply his creative skills to create BrainLeap’s promotional and advertising efforts. He is passionate about film and other media which is why he enjoys creating new videos showcasing the Attention Arcade™ and creating more awareness about its benefits. Erick graduated from San Diego State University in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in marketing. He finds fulfillment in working with BrainLeap because he has struggled with ADHD and loves to see the benefit the Attention Arcade™ offers children.