About me

Hi! This is Gal. I’m the Scientific Director of Dabtong House, a non-profit that funds and coordinates projects in Bhutan spanning AI, space research, novel construction methods and traditional craft, and Program Director at the Technology Commons Alliance, where I work on infrastructure for openly-governed AI. I’m also a Researcher at the Henkaku Center at Chiba Institute of Technology and an advisor to Gaudiy in Tokyo. Previously, I worked as a Project Manager for Gelephu Mindfulness City, a special administrative region in the south of Bhutan.

I was a PhD student in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT working with Rebecca Saxe and Mike Frank, where I studied computational mechanisms of visual attention and built automated tools for behavioral testing.

I did my MSc in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, where I worked on non-invasive brain stimulation protocols for cognitive enhancement. Before that, I studied cognitive neuroscience and statistics at University College Utrecht.

After each degree program, I make a point of taking a gap year. So far, I spent this time as a visiting researcher at Hitachi R&D in Japan, volunteering at a school in the north of India and studying Vipassana meditation (as taught by S.N. Goenka). Before that, I grew up in Münster and Göttingen, two beautiful unversity towns in Germany.

You can find my resume here.