Joel Murphy

Joel Murphy was born in Honolulu, HI, and has a background in jewelry making and kinetic sculpture with a BFA from Mass College of Art and an MFA from UC San Diego. He has done consulting gigs and worked for small startups since the mid 90’s. He started teaching Physical Computing at Parsons in 2006. In 2011, Joel Co-Founded World Famous Electronics, makers of Pulse Sensor, an optical heart-rate monitor for Arduino. Building on that work, in 2013 he was a part of a grant funded team to create a low-cost high-quality EEG system. He went on to Co-Found the company OpenBCI, and commercialize an open-source high-quality biopotential sensing system. Joel is currently residing in Brooklyn NY, and he is focusing primarily on his startups and the occasional consulting job.