Shantanu Bala
Somatic Labs Co-Founder & CEO
For six years, Shantanu developed assistive and rehabilitative devices at the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing at Arizona State University. As a 2014 Thiel Fellow, Shantanu received a $100,000 grant to independently develop technologies after concluding his formal research. As the co-founder and CEO of Somatic Labs, he has worked on a wearable technology that provides silent and invisible communication via touch for people with visual impairments and noisy work environments.