Meet the people behind human state intelligence.

Israel founded Synheart in late 2025 as a research lab built like a startup. His team of ten-plus engineers and researchers builds on-device infrastructure that reads focus, stress and recovery from physiological and behavioral signals. Raw data never leaves the device. He designs the system architecture, and he writes and reviews code.

His early research taught neural networks to find and sort 3D microstructures in microscope images, and he holds two patents for microscopy devices. At Mila, Yoshua Bengio’s lab in Montreal, he worked with Kris Sankaran on AI for humanitarian problems. One project forecast extreme heat and rain. Another, HighRes-net, fuses many low-resolution satellite images into one sharper one. It won silver in the European Space Agency’s super-resolution challenge.

In 2020 he co-founded Chapa, an Ethiopian payment gateway. As CTO he designed its payments, payouts, fraud detection and ledgers. Those systems now handle millions of transactions a year for tens of thousands of merchants.