Divya Chander

Advisor | Medical XR Advisor

Divya Chander is an anesthesiologist (MD UCSD, residency UCSF) and neuroscientist (Ph.D. UCSD) who also works at
the intersection of health, data, technology, and data security. She is a practicing physician, Chair of Neuroscience
and Faculty of Medicine at Singularity University, former faculty in the Stanford Department of Anesthesiology, and
Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center. An advocate for data and biometric rights, she
serves as medical advisor to the Extended Reality Safety Initiative (XRSI.org) and is helping develop standards for
identity and sensitive healthcare data security. Dr. Chander also leads 2 companies she co-founded during the
pandemic – Lucidify, a continuous, intelligent brain monitoring platform for the detection of delirium, and Plexxus,
a company building the data security fabric for secure communications and transactions, supporting the integration
of IoT devices to help build the world’s connected global immune system. She was named one of 2020’s top digital
health innovators by Intelligent Health AI. Dr. Chander also served on a NASA task force for COVID19 and directed
the post-pandemic global health initiative for OneShared.World. Her research involves mapping consciousness and
writing algorithms for the automated tracking of altered states, elaborating theories of consciousness (which she
presented on the TED-NYC and UN stages), predicting the effect of human augmentation on consciousness, and
how mapping consciousness in humans may enable us to recognize it in non-human, intelligent beings (both on
and off-planet, through initiatives like SETI, where she joins the newly formed Complexity Group). Dr. Chander also
contributes to space life sciences and medicine. A finalist for astronaut selection and an alumnus of the
International Space University, Dr. Chander has performed remote simulations of trauma rescues, anesthesia, and
surgery in Mars analog settings.

Her desire to alter her own Consciousness is to someday see the Earth rising from
the surface of the moon.