Timeline

2017

• education · 09

  Georgian-American High School "Progress", grades 10–11

  Upper secondary curriculum with an American-school component; programming club and SAT preparation. One year, then transferred.

• award · 09

  First year in the Leonardo da Vinci Young Inventors competition

  The run of finalist places starts in 2017 and continues every year through 2025 — first as a student inventor, later as mentor and specialist.

2018

• education · 09

  Public School №22: the final year under an individual study plan

  Completed June 2019 with a gold medal. Coursework studied independently alongside the Microsoft Academy programme; state examinations taken in person at the school.

• education · 09

  Microsoft Academy: professional training, software development track

  Self-directed, running in parallel with full-time professional engineering work; components delivered via the Microsoft Professional Program on edX (DEV237x) and Microsoft Learn. Runs to June 2023. Not a degree.

• award · 11

  Third place, Leonardo da Vinci 2018 — corrective sensor system for visually impaired people

  Anzori Kuparadze project leader, Nata Sulakvelidze project author. Announced by the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia with a 2,000 GEL prize. The device becomes Vide, then VISION, then a GEL 100,000 GITA development grant.

2019

• venture · 07

  Research engineer, Akaki Tsereteli State University

  Embedded hardware and software work packages on Shota Rustaveli Foundation grants: instrumentation, control electronics, data acquisition and firmware.

• grant · 07

  Rustaveli Foundation grant: New Type of Conical Wind Turbine, 550,000 GEL

  Lead microcontroller and embedded engineer. The Europass records the grant as 2018–2023; the grants record dates it 2019. It is the research from which DAWTONE was spun out.

• grant · 07

  Rustaveli Foundation grant: Vehicle Recuperative Suspension with Energy Regeneration

  July 2019 to August 2021. Sensing, control, data-acquisition hardware and software, and the analysis pipeline for experimental data. Amount not disclosed.

• publication · 10

  First conference paper: conditions of gradual deflection and equilibrium of the conical wind turbine

  I International Conference "Modern Energy Problems and Ways to Solve Them", Georgian Technical University, 7–11 October 2019.

2020

• award · 06

  YES Hackathon "Contain COVID-19": winning project, PulmoScan

  The hackathon ran online in March 2020, run by the Kristal Foundation with USAID YES Georgia and the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health. Six winners. The entry was an AI web application that returns a diagnosis of bacterial or viral pneumonia from an uploaded chest radiograph. It became Nemedis and PulmoScan.

• grant · 10

  GITA matching grant: Smart Aeroponics, 100,000 GEL

  Closed-loop irrigation and dosing, EC and pH sensing, lighting control, a remote dashboard and image-assisted plant-health analysis. Five completed installations and sales in different regions of Georgia.

• patent · 12

  Conic Wind Wheel filed — application AU 2020 15519

  Inventors: Archil Geguchadze, Anzori Kuparadze, Nata Sulakvelidze. The geometry that lets a turbine accept wind from changing directions without yawing the machine.

2021

• grant · 02

  GITA matching grant: VISION (Vide), 100,000 GEL

  Development funding for the cap-mounted assistive device that started as the 2018 school competition entry.

• venture · 03

  NovelVisio founded

  An R&D company for IoT and assistive technology. Nata is co-founder and CEO, responsible for strategy, product definition, engineering, delivery and institutional relations.

• venture · 06

  Nemedis Inc founded, Walnut Creek, California

  Medical-AI company developing PulmoScan, the lung-pathology diagnostic system built on the 2020 hackathon project.

• venture · 06

  MaigicWorks Inc founded, Walnut Creek, California

  Built Cognee, an autism-screening application, and other digital-health prototypes. The company has since closed and the application was discontinued.

• grant · 06

  GITA matching grant: Portal AGRoGEORGIA, 100,000 GEL

2022

• publication

  A Study on a Recuperative Suspension as an Alternative Energy Source — Environmental and Climate Technologies 26(1), 213–227

  Peer-reviewed article from the recuperative-suspension grant, published by Walter de Gruyter for Riga Technical University; the same work was presented in Riga in May 2021.

• patent · 03

  Conic Wind Wheel granted — utility model U 2022 2126 Y

  Published in the Official Bulletin №5(584)/2022. Co-owned with the Shota Rustaveli National Scientific Foundation.

• venture · 06

  G3D founded

  A Georgian manufacturer of fused-filament 3D printers, printing materials and applied engineering. Nata owns the technical stack end to end: firmware, electronics, mechanical architecture, AI tooling and the internal software that turns engineering into production, costing and investor-facing strategy.

• grant · 06

  GITA pilot-regions integrated development programme: G3D, 150,000 GEL

• publication · 09

  Magnetic rotational supports and 3D printing of blades in a tilted-axis wind turbine — BALTTRIB’2022, Kaunas

  Vytautas Magnus University, 21–23 September 2022. The turbine research moving from a grant into a manufactured machine.

2023

• venture · 01

  DAWTONE: co-owner and product manager

  The diagonal-axis wind turbine commercialised from grant-funded research: a product family from 100 W to 5 kW, including a portable variant, in pilot iteration ahead of commercial launch.

• venture · 01

  R. Dvali Institute of Machine Mechanics: mechanical engineer

  January to July 2023, on the grant for a unified machine of alloy hydro-vacuum dispersion for active powders: 2D/3D construction and detailing of machine parts, and co-development of a proprietary instrumentation device and its software.

• venture · 04

  MediHub LLC (Cardiostim) founded

  A medical-device company developing Cardiostim, a wireless leadless cardiac pacemaker. Nata co-founded it and leads hardware and software prototyping across the device programme.

• grant · 04

  GITA regional innovation grant (Imereti): Cardiostim, up to 25,000 GEL

• teaching · 09

  re:school: instructor and mentor

  AI development, Internet and networking fundamentals, computer literacy, Arduino and microcontroller systems, sensors and electronics, MQTT and cloud-connected devices. Built LectureHub, the teaching-operations platform the courses run on.

• patent · 12

  Vortex Microhydroelectric Power Station filed — application AP 2023 16410

  The stated technical result is the possibility of product unification and mass production. Inventors include Omari Zivzivadze, Archil Geguchadze, Badri Zivzivadze, Anzori Kuparadze and Nata Sulakvelidze.

2024

• publication

  Universal Portable Unit for Hydro-Vacuum Dispersion of Metallic Melts — Physics and Chemistry of Solid State 25(1), 127–135

• publication

  An Increase in the Energy Efficiency of Vortex Micro HPP by Self-Adjustment of Flows — Journal of Engineering Sciences 11(2), G17–G23

• publication

  Chapters in The Internet and Information and Communication Technologies in Today’s Society — Cambridge Scholars Publishing

  The CentillioAI and MadLearning chapter, and the diagonal-axis wind turbine design and 3D printing chapter, in the same co-authored volume.

• publication

  Vortex micro-hydro papers: INESEC 2024 proceedings and INTEC 2024

  Co-author on both. The INESEC paper is indexed and linked; the INTEC abstract exists only in the printed conference list, so it gets no link here.

• grant · 06

  GITA matching grants, Round 12: Cardiostim, 150,000 GEL

  Twenty startups funded in the round by an investment committee of international venture investors.

• venture · 07

  Brainwave Science: AI Innovations Expert

  Core member of the AI team on iCognative, the P300-based brain-electrical-activation platform, and Basil Health, the EEG biofeedback consumer application. Runs to July 2025.

2025

• patent

  Vortex Microhydroelectric Power Station granted — invention patent P 2025 7715 B

  The application was published as AP 2025 16410 A in the Official Bulletin №2, 27 January 2025.

• venture · 07

  Brainwave Science engagement ends

  The role ended in July 2025.

2026

• publication

  Influence of Thermodynamic Properties of Metallic Materials on Hydro-Vacuum Atomization and Hydriding — Machines. Technologies. Materials, p. 204–212

  Proceedings of the XXIII International Congress, Vol. 2 (Year IX, Issue 34), Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0".

• project · 05

  Horizon Europe engagement: New Vision University strategic-cooperation workshop; G3D on the Cluster 4 matchmaking platform

  On 30 April 2026 New Vision University hosted a workshop with Horizon Europe representatives on integrating its research and clinical potential into the European research and innovation roadmap. G3D’s profile on the Horizon Europe Cluster 4 Digital Matchmaking platform lists Anzori Kuparadze as CEO and Nata Sulakvelidze as CTO.

• venture · 08

  Versec LLC founded

  A business-automation company: practical automation systems for commercial clients — embedded devices, software, IoT integration and technical support. Nata is founder and CEO, responsible for strategy, technical planning, delivery control, client relations and finances, and delivers three client projects in parallel as founding engineer.

• publication · 10

  SimTwin preprint and v0.1.1 released — first author, MIT licensed

  An open-source reproducible simulator of networked FDM/FFF printer fleets with digital-twin synchronisation, fault injection and communication impairment. Scalability to 1,000 simulated printers, throughput to 70,363 msg/s, twin staleness rising from 0.99 s to 6.99 s as loss rises, 10 of 11 fault families separable at Cohen’s |d| ≥ 1.45. A preprint: not yet peer-reviewed.