Max Hodak

Max Hodak is the Co-founder and CEO of Science Corporation, which he founded in 2021. Science’s mission is to restore quality of life to those with debilitating conditions for which there are no treatment options, creating technology and devices aimed at restoring vision, cognition, and mobility. Prior to founding Science, Max was president of Neuralink, which he co-founded in 2016. He previously co-founded Transcriptic, a robotic cloud laboratory for the life sciences, where he was CEO. Max began his life-long passion for BCI as a young child and started programming at the age of six. As a freshman at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, studying biomedical engineering, he worked his way into the renowned Nicolelis Lab – one of the best neural engineering labs in the country, typically open only to graduate students – and spent his undergraduate years immersed in BCI research. Since graduating from Duke, his primary research and professional focus has been on neural engineering and the brain.