The Biocybernaut Institute, Inc. was founded in 1983 by Dr. James V. Hardt, who has a bachelor of science degree in Physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, a master of science in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University, and has done a post-doctoral program in Psychophysiology at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute (University of California, San Francisco), now with over forty years of research and clinical practice in neurofeedback brain wave enhancement, and is certified as a senior fellow by the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance.