Team
Founder President - Bryant Liu
Bryant is currently a undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. He has been conducting scientific research on mind and meditation since 2020. He has been meditating since 2015, gaining enormous benefits in terms of physical health, mental strength, insight and happiness.
Bryant conducted research on meditation's impact on brain computer interface (BCI) analyzed by deep learning models.
He competed in the 2023 Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) and was named as the top 300 Regeneron STS Scholar.
Publication: "Deep Learning for Meditation's Impact On Brain Computer Interface Performance" published by IEEE Xplore.
He presented his research at:
IEEE 2022 4th International Communication Engineering and Cloud Computing Conference (ICECC) on 10/29/2022
IEEE 2022 5th International Conference on Computing and Big Data (ICCBD) on 12/17/2022.
Bryant also co-founded the Luminous Wisdom Meditation Retreat Center. Bryant has been under the direct guidance of two renowned meditation masters from the world's largest Buddhist Institute Larung Gar (in Tibet) Khenpo Tsultrim Lodro . He went back to Larung Gar twice to get teachings and from Khenpo Tsultrim Lodro and other famous Buddhist teachers.
Bryant was the founder and President of the Meditation and Wellness Club at Saratoga High School.
San Jose Mercury News reported Bryant's research on meditation and his meditation activities.
Vice President - Paul Zhou
Paul started meditation in 2022 and he has strong interest in environmental science and computer science.
He conducted Environmental Science research on wildfire prediction using AI and it is accepted to be published at IEEE Xplore. He will present it at IEEE conference.
At Carlmont High School, Paul is the founder and President of the French Literature Club, VP of Machine Learning and Data Science club, Vice President of the Physics Club.
Vice President - Nancy Lei
Nancy started meditation in 2022 and she has strong interests in cognitive science and neuroscience.
She is currently the founder and president of the Meditation and Wellness Student Group at Saratoga High School.
She conducted Cognitive Science research on meditation's effect on test anxiety under the guidance of Professor Yikuan Lee.
Vice President - Vivian Lei
Vivian started meditation in 2022 and she has strong interests in math.
She competed in various math competitions and qualified AIME in 2022 and 2023. She attended the AwesomeMath Summer program in 2022.
She also participates in the Saratoga High VEX Robotics team and won several awards.
CTO - Kyle Liu
Kyle started meditation in 2019 and he is also interested in computer science.
He learned programming and did AI project on Natural Language Processing.
Kyle co-founded the Luminous Wisdom Meditation Retreat Center. He did prototype of an app which compiles all the retreat center in US.
Board Director - Jessica Huai
Jessica worked in the high tech industry for over 20 years after she got her M.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University. After she achieved financial freedom she left her Senior Engineering Manager job at Apple to cofound the Luminous Wisdom Meditation Retreat Center.
She has been meditating since 2013 with various meditation techniques accumulating over 7000 hours of meditation by 2023, gaining enormous benefits in terms of physical and mental health, career development, true happiness and wisdom cultivation.
She has been under the direct guidance of two renowned meditation masters from the world's largest Buddhist Institute Larung Gar (in Tibet) Khenpo Tsultrim Lodro and Khenpo Sodargye. She is trained rigorously in the meditation program taught by Khenpo Tsultrim Lodro who came to US and gave teachings at Stanford, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Columbia, Apple and Google etc from 2015 to 2018.
She founded Luminous Meditation and co-founded Luminous Wisdom Meditation Retreat Center.
She also co-founded the Apple Buddhist Community (ABC) in 2016 when she worked at Apple.
Board Director - Dr. Yikuan Lee
Dr. Yikuan Lee is a distinguished professor in the International Business Department at the Lam Family College of Business at San Francisco State University. With a wealth of academic accomplishments and a deep commitment to fostering creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and mindfulness, Dr. Lee’s contribution has been acknowledged through the receipt of several research grants and award.
Dr. Lee specializes in teaching creativity and innovation, entrepreneurship, and international marketing. Her passion for cultivating an entrepreneurial culture on campus has been evident through her initiation of "The Next BIG Thing in Sustainable Innovation" Shark Tank competition, an event she has hosted each semester since 2015.
Beyond her academic expertise, Dr. Lee is a dedicated mindfulness meditation practitioner with over a decade of meditation experience. Her unwavering commitment to foster a culture of mindfulness culture on campus and guiding students toward intrinsic motivation and self-efficacy through mindfulness practice underscores her dedication to holistic well-being.