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In this episode, recorded live at Austin Tech Week 2025, Nick Spiller sits down with David Zakariaie, founder and CEO of Senseye, the Austin-based deep-tech company turning eye-tracking and computer vision into the world’s first objective diagnostic for mental health. Zakariaie explains how Senseye’s 10-minute smartphone-based test measures ocular micro-movements to detect PTSD, anxiety, and depression, conditions currently “diagnosed” using little more than questionnaires and gut instinct.
David walks through the scientific foundation: decades of fMRI research showing clear neurological signatures across mental health disorders, paired with Senseye’s breakthrough, running high-precision eye-tracking with nothing more than a phone camera. The result is a scalable, FDA-bound diagnostic platform aimed at modernizing the world’s most outdated ...