Carleton University alumna Natasha D’Souza is the recipient of a $50,000 neuroscience entrepreneurial fellowship given by the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) in partnership with Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE).
D’Souza’s fellowship is one of eight Ontario post-graduate fellowships to help entrepreneurs turn their neuro-discoveries into companies and jobs. D’Souza is a 2012 graduate of Carleton’s Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program.
“Natasha joined the TIM program with a purpose – to launch and grow her company,” said Steven Muegge, her graduate project supervisor and a professor with the Sprott School of Business. “She graduated with an engineering degree in one hand and a new technology business in the other. Her graduate project examined business models to provide technology and services for children with special needs, and her company is the commercialization of that work. My colleagues and I are proud of her success.”
D’Souza has more than 15 years of industry experience and advises businesses, organizations and individuals on the optimization of their business strategies. She is the founder and CEO of Virtual EyeSee.
She is in the last stages of developing an innovative therapy app for children with special needs called Zeely Adventures. Children are motivated by the engaging game-based approach to recognize and interpret facial expressions.
The TIM program is a unique Master’s program for innovative engineers that focuses on creating wealth at the early stages of company or opportunity life cycles.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 in Grad Student Research, News
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