Stephen Murray
Laura Itzhaki
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.