Tao Hu

Tao Hu is the founder and chief scientist of NeuroXess. He was formerly a researcher and deputy director of the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and founding director of its 2020 Frontier Lab. He founded NeuroXess in 2021 to commercialise implantable flexible brain-computer interface technology using silk-protein electrode carriers. He resigned from his public post in 2025 to focus fully on the company. He won the 2020 Shanghai Youth Science and Technology Outstanding Contribution Award.