Ralph Etienne Cummings
Ralph Etienne-Cummings received his B.Sc. in physics in 1988 from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. He completed his M.S.E.E (’91) and PhD (’94) in electrical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, Dr. Etienne-Cummings is a Professor and Chairman of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He was the founding director of the Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering. He has served as Chairman of various IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Technical Committees and was elected as a member of CAS Board of Governors. He also serves on numerous editorial boards and was recently appointed Deputy Editor in Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. He is an IEEE Fellow and the recipient of the NSF’s Career and Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award. He was a Visiting African Fellow at U. Cape Town, Fulbright Fellowship Grantee, Eminent Visiting Scholar at U. Western Sydney and has also won numerous publication awards, most recently the 2012 Most Outstanding Paper of the IEEE Transaction on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. He was also recently recognized as a ScienceMaker by the HistoryMakers, an African-American history archive. He has published over 220 peer reviewed article, 11 books/chapters and holds 10 patents/applications on his work.
Greg Cohen
Gordon is a co-founder and the CEO of Rain Neuromorphics, an AI startup developing neuromorphic hardware - physical chips that that can operate faster and with far less power than current implementations of software-based neural networks. Through biologically inspired architectures and algorithms, RAIN Neuromorphics envisions a future where all devices are independently intelligent.
Dileep George
Before cofounding Vicarious, Dileep was CTO of Numenta, an AI company he cofounded with Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky. Before Numenta, Dileep was a Research Fellow at the Redwood Neuroscience Institute. Dileep has authored 22 patents and several influential papers on the mathematics of brain circuits. Dileep’s research on hierarchical models of the brain earned him a PhD in Electrical Engineerings from Stanford University. He earned in MS in EE from Stanford and his BS from IIT in Bombay.
Martin Tobias
Alice Zheng, MD, MBA, MPH
Michael Waldron
Michael Waldron is the Head of Investment Team and project leader of the World Energy Investment report at the International Energy Agency. His work focuses on investment in the electricity and renewables sector, trends in energy financing and implications of energy investment for meeting energy security and sustainability goals. He was previously the project manager and a lead author of the IEA’s Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report. Prior to joining the IEA, Mr Waldron worked at Lehman Brothers in New York and London. Mr Waldron obtained his Masters in International Energy Policy & International Economics at Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and his Bachelor’s degree in Economics & Government at Cornell University.
Carlos Sanchez
Carlos Sanchez background is in Industrial Engineering, works as a manager of environment for Philip Morris International and shares his 18 years of experience as a climate change advisor through his platform https://carlossanchez.eco/
Carlos joined PMI 7 years ago as head of its manufacturing energy management program and afterwards, as global manager for environment, has lead initiatives such as:
- Carbon emissions;
- setting SBTi targets,
- developing a holistic Carbon footprint model,
- creating a renewable on-site energy investing scheme based on MACC curve,
- doubling PMI renewable electricity sourced achieving 64% in 2018,
- performing a Climate Change Risk Assessment following TCFD investor recommendations.
- first carbon-neutral factory
- Water reduction;
- Alliance for Water Stewardship and Global Water footprint
- Reporting;
- DJSI, CDP and lead CDP Supplier engagement