Radoslaw Nowak
Benedict Cross
Markus Quessier
Andreas Martin
Pascal Koenig
Yohann Tschudi
As a Technology and Market Analyst, Dr. Yohann Tschudi is a member of the Semiconductor and Software division at Yole Développement (Yole), part of Yole Group of Companies. Yohann works everyday with his team to identify, understand, and analyze the role of software and computing parts within any semiconductor product, from machine code to the most advanced algorithms. Following his thesis at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), Yohann developed dedicated software for fluid mechanics and thermodynamics applications. Afterwards, he spent for two years at the University of Miami (FL, United-States) as an AI scientist. Yohann has a PhD in High-Energy Physics and a master’s degree in Physical Sciences from Claude Bernard University (Lyon, France).
Tony Prescott
Tony Prescott holds a chair in Cognitive Robotics at the University of Sheffield, and is the Director of Sheffield Robotics an institute with over two hundred active researchers. His academic research spans robotics, computational neuroscience and machine learning, and has generated over 200 journal articles and conference papers. He is best known for his work on brain-based robots which he has developed to test theories in the brain sciences and to prototype useful brain-inspired technologies. In 2014, he co-founded the UK startup Consequential Robotics whose lead product, the animal-like companion robot MiRo, is the world's first commercial robot with a brain-based control system. Tony is also the co-founder of Living Machines, the international conference on biomimetic and biohybrid systems, now in its 9th year, and is the lead editor of the OUP Handbook of Living Machines, winner of the 2019 BMA basic and clinical sciences book award.
Todd Hylton
Dr. Todd Hylton is the Executive Director of the Contextual Robotics Institute and Professor of Practice in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UC San Diego. His research interests include novel computing systems and their application to autonomous vehicle and robotic systems. Prior to his appointment at UC San Diego, he was Executive Vice President of Strategy and Research at Brain Corporation, a San Diego-based robotics startup. From 2007 to 2012, Dr. Hylton served as a Program Manager at DARPA where he started and managed a number of projects including the Nano Air Vehicle program, the SyNAPSE program and the Physical Intelligence program. Prior to DARPA, he ran a nanotechnology research group at SAIC, co-founded 4Wave, a specialty semiconductor equipment business, and served as CTO of Commonwealth Scientific Corporation. Dr. Hylton received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 1991 and his B.S. in Physics from M.I.T. in 1983.
Shahin Farshchi
Shahin empowers visionary founders aiming to accelerate humanity and build a fantastic future through feats of engineering. He built brainmachine interfaces for his PhD in Electrical Engineering, hybrids at General Motors, founded a wireless vital sign monitoring company, and as a Partner at Lux, has funded chip (Nervana), rocket (Relativity), satellite (Planet), robotics (Covariant.ai), and driverless car (Zoox) companies. Lux is a $2.4B VC that invests in tomorrow’s transformational companies across healthcare and technology.