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Christensen is a national policy leader for the field of robotics and has testified before Congress on the subject. He is the head of a nationwide effort to draft a robotics roadmap and explore the field’s potential to transform U.S. society. Most recently, he served as Director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech. Christensen's research covers computer vision, artificial intelligence and robotics, and his primary emphasis has been on a systems-oriented approach to machine perception, robotics and design of intelligent machines. He and his team seek solutions that are theoretically sound, with well-defined implementations that can be evaluated in realistic situations. He has worked with a number of industry partners, including Boeing, KUKA, iRobot, BMW and Apple.


 
Before joining UC San Diego as director of the Contextual Robotics Institute at the Jacobs School, he was the founding director of Institute for Robotics and Intelligent machines (IRIM) at Georgia Institute of Technology (2006-2016). He has published more than 350 contributions across AI, robotics and vision. Christensen received the Engelberger Award 2011, the highest honor awarded by the robotics industry. He was also awarded the "Boeing Supplier of the Year 2011" with 3 other colleagues at Georgia Tech. Christensen is a fellow of American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He received an honorary doctorate in engineering from Aalborg University 2014.

 

, is senior associate dean for artificial intelligence, the founding director of the , professor of internal medicine, pathology and biomedical engineering, and director of the Clinical Image Analysis Lab at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Gurcan is an internationally recognized researcher and educator in the fields of medical image analysis, artificial intelligence and biomedical informatics.
He holds 10 patents for his interventions in medical artificial intelligence, which have led to the establishment of two startup companies.
Gurcan received his BSc and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and electronics engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey, and his MSc. degree in digital systems engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, England.

 is a Professor in the Management Department and Co-Director of the . His research and teaching focus on strategy, organization, and the management of innovation. He serves as the Academic Dean of the Global Executive PhD program and also holds the ESCP/Sonepar Chair on "New Platform Strategies". Previously, he was the Scientific Director of the Executive MBA (2010–2015) and the Full-Time MBA (2001–2005). He can also speak to the impact of AI on business strategy.

 is a Full Professor in Marketing at ESCP Business School and Co-Director of the . A true global citizen, Hector has gathered a diverse range of experiences throughout his life. Being raised in Germany by his Spanish parents, his multi-cultural identity has been shaped from an early age. Since then Hector has lived, worked and studied in various countries such as Spain, Germany, Japan, South Korea, United States and the United Kingdom. Over the last fifteen years his professional portfolio has grown in various roles in marketing, education and corporate strategy. During this time Hector has worked on projects for small to medium sized businesses as well as large international companies such as Pepsi or Ford.
Hector is interested in interdisciplinary research that addresses phenomena on the self and consumption. Currently, his work spans areas such as cross-cultural consumer behavior, body image and consumption, and, in particular, human-robot/AI interactions.