Recently retired from active duty, Gen. Hager’s most recent posts included USCYBERCOM and the US Cyber National Mission Force, reporting to Gen. Nakasone, NSA Director. First commissioned in 1987, he was one of the few military officers with advanced engineering degrees from Silicon Valley. He has served in CENTCOM, DODIN, with deployments to Africa and Southwest Asia.
Director of the USC Information, Inference & Intelligence Group. Dr. Mitra is the USC Viterbi Gordon S. Marshall Chair in Engineering and Professor of ECE & CS. Her work includes underwater acoustic comm, wireless body-area networks for health, and sensor networks, under programs sponsored by Office of Naval Research and the NSF (Mobile Underwater Networks).
CEO of Aitomatic, a Knowledge-First ML company. He works with leading industrial companies like Panasonic, Tesla, and Westinghouse to help get fresh fish from the ocean to your dining table, make efficient batteries for your vehicles, and keep them safe from cyber attacks. Dr. Nguyen was president of Arimo-Panasonic, eng. director at Google, and professor of computer engineering at HKUST.
VP of Digital Platforms at WESCO (formerly Westinghouse). Mr. Mereby has led global incubation & expansion of connected products & cloud-based industrial applications. He has led acquisitions of AI companies, managed sales/distribution strategies & policies. He has identified and forged strategic partnerships and managed relationships with other Fortune 500 companies.
Director at Panasonic, leading its Global Digital & AI Technology Center. His organization provides the bridge between leading-edge technologies and customer solutions through the business divisions. A veteran exec at Panasonic, Kutsumi-san is a senior leader in the CTO organization, bringing to market innovative products from autonomous robots to AI-based predictive maintenance.
Leader in NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility Mission. Through ATM-X (Air Traffic Management eXploration), he aims to safely accommodate the growing demand of new air vehicles. He worked closely with the FAA as Lead for NASA’s Airspace Technology Demonstration-2 Machine Learning Airport Surface Model. Dr. Coupe received his PhD in Computer Engineering from UC Santa Cruz.
Assoc. Professor, Dept of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Hu’s research expertise is engineering design under uncertainty, post-design failure prognostics, with applications to Li-ion batteries, rotating machinery, and structural systems. His work on Intuitive Predictive Maintenance of Industrial and Agricultural Equipment is funded by the NSF.
Head, Industrial AI at Hitachi. Dr. Gupta also co-leads the Hitachi Global AI Center of Excellence. He leads teams of data scientists, architects and developers to build fundamental horizontal technologies for Industrial AI, and solutions for verticals such as mobility, manufacturing, mining, energy management systems, and industrial analytics. He earned his MS and PhD in CS and ChemE from UIC.
Crittenden Chair Professor in Cancer Research, and Chief of Medical Physics & Engineering, Radiation Oncology, at UTSW Medical Center. Dr. Jiang leads the Medical AI & Automation (MAIA) Lab, incorporating human knowledge into deep learning for radiation therapy. He is Fellow at both the Am. Inst. for Medical & Biological Engineering, and the Am. Assoc. of Physicists in Medicine.
Co-founding General Partner, Bloomberg Beta, a highly successful early-stage venture capital firm with a soul, based in Silicon Valley. Bloomberg Beta invests funds from a single LP: the billionaire Mayor Bloomberg. Mr. Cham is a thought leader in the future of AI and its business models. He earned his BS CS from Harvard and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Professor (Emeritus) of Computer Science and of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Shavlik is a recognized expert in the application of human knowledge to ML, pioneering such architectures as Knowledge-Based Artificial Neural Networks (KBANN). He specializes in “Learning algorithms that take advice” and ML applied to biomedical tasks.
Managing Partner at Derwen AI. Mr. Nathan works with leading industrial companies like BASF and Siemens on European AI initiatives. He is a recognized expert in natural language processing & understanding, data science, cloud computing, with 40+ years tech academic & industry experience, ranging from Berkeley, Stanford, Bell Labs to early-stage start-ups.
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Head of AI Solutions Engineering, Aitomatic, leading teams to build cutting-edge Industrial AI solutions that leverage domain expertise. Dr. Rozario applied ML to radiation treatment at UT Southwestern Medical. At Siemens Automation, he helped enterprises to improve automation capabilities. He earned his PhD in CS from UT Dallas.
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