Peter Norvig is a Director of Research at Google Inc. Previously he was head of Google's core search algorithms group, and of NASA Ames's Computational Sciences Division, making him NASA's senior computer scientist. He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001. He has taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkeley, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1986 and the distinguished alumni award in 2006. He was co-teacher of an Artifical Intelligence class that signed up 160,000 students, helping to kick off the current round of massive open online classes. His publications include the books Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (the leading textbook in the field), Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX. He is also the author of the Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation and the world's longest palindromic sentence. He is a fellow of the AAAI, ACM, California Academy of Science and American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Erin is a Director at Autodesk Research, specializing in intelligent and intuitive design technology for architects and engineers. She has a B.S. in Cognitive Science and a PhD in Information & Computer Science. Her dissertation work focused on technology affordances. Erin joined Autodesk in 2002 as a user researcher, conducting hundreds of user research sessions to identify the sweet spot where technology feasibility, viability, and desirability meet. She was on the founding team for generative design at Autodesk. In terms of customer pilots, Erin led Autodesk’s partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Labs, and was part of a team that helped NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab reduce the weight of a lander, proposed for a mission to Europa – a moon of Jupiter. Generative design was used to create optimised geometry of all the lander’s structural parts, reducing overall weight by over a third. Erin has also conducted numerous software ethnographies. She’s observed Architects design skyscrapers from 3D virtual studios, observed children program gravity engines with the XBOX in their living rooms, and observed aeronautical engineers design emergency landings for the space shuttle. As an ethnographer, she uses inductive reasoning to extract patterns of interaction and to develop predictive models of behaviour.

Dr. David Budden is an engineering team lead and distributed systems researcher at DeepMind, the world leader in AI research and its application for positive impact. His recent projects include AlphaStar, the first AI to defeat a top professional player at StarCraft II, in addition to many other reinforcement-learning agents and environments. Before joining DeepMind, David worked at MIT and Harvard on projects including the first real-time “connectomics” system for reconstructing biological neuron connectivity maps from electron microscopy data. He was named Australia’s 2016 Young IT Professional of the Year for his startup work in the sports and education industries.

As the President of JDAI, Dr. Zhou heads JD’s AI strategy, technology and business, where he sets up a world-class AI team dedicated to address AI business needs, for both JD and JDAI’s external clients. He was previously with IBM in New York, where he was the Director of AI Foundations lab and Watson Chief Scientist.

Shelley Peterson has supported Lockheed Martin pursuits, diving into the rapidly evolving augmented reality and wearables market to integrate emerging technologies into key solutions for Lockheed Martin. Her combined skill and reputation as a thought leader across the augmented reality industry have resulted in repeated demonstration of the potential of this emerging technology across numerous Lockheed Martin programs.

Shelley also serves on the Barbara Bush Foundation Technology Advisory Board. In her spare time, Shelley teaches college mathematics as an adjunct, and enjoys volunteering for and speaking at STEM events.

Linda Hung has been part of the Accelerated Materials Design and Discovery group at the Toyota Research Institute since 2017.  Her current work integrates machine learning with materials science simulation and theory, with the goals of shortening the discovery timeline and improving the fundamental understanding of materials.  She has a background in computational materials science, and has studied mechanical failure, photovoltaics, and superconductivity through simulation at the atomic and quantum scales. She obtained her PhD in applied and computational mathematics from Princeton University, and has held research positions at the Ecole Polytechnique, the University of Illinois Chicago, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Anna Bethke is the Head of AI for Social Good of Intel's Artificial Intelligence Products Group where she is establishing partnerships with social impact organizations; enabling their missions with Intel's technologies and AI expertise. She is also actively involved in the AI Ethics discussion, collaborating on research surrounding the design of fair, transparent, ethical, and accessible AI systems. In her previous role as a deep learning data scientist she developed deep learning NLP algorithms as part of the NLP Architect team. Anna received an M.S and B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT in 2009 and 2007 respectively.

Brendan McCord is President of Tulco Labs and EVP of Tulco, a holding company that transforms static industries using AI. Previously, Brendan founded the U.S. Department of Defense Joint AI Center and was primary author of the first DoD AI Strategy.

Brendan led a team of deep learning researchers and engineers at a startup backed by Bill Gates and served in the U.S. Navy as a submarine officer. He is Board Member of the Harvard Data Science Review and Technology Advisor to the Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command. He holds an SB from MIT and an MBA from Harvard.

Graham received his PhD in Biology from MIT, where he studied microRNAs. After completing a post doctorate at the University of California, San Francisco, where he studied the genomics of infectious diseases, he joined Calico Life Sciences in 2014 as Principal Investigator. Within a company that focuses on aging and age-related diseases, his group’s research focuses on the genetics and genomics of lifespan and aging in humans and model organisms.

Dr. Simon Lui is the Director and Expert AI scientist of the QQ Music BU, Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME), and Adjunct Professor of the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). His primary research interests are AI and music information retrieval. Before joining TME, Simon was an Assistant Professor of SUTD, Visiting Assistant Professor in MIT, and he has developed several #1 best-selling apps in the iOS app store in 7 countries. As an award-winning violinist and professional pop music arranger, Simon was also an invited beatbox guest in Eason Chan and Andy Lau's concert. Simon is a member of Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong (CASH).

Toby Walsh is a world-renowned professor on artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales and Data61. He was named by the media as a "rock star" of the digital revolution and included on the list of the 100 most important digital innovators in Australia. Toby is the author of the books ‘IT’S ALIVE’, ‘Android Dreams’, ‘Machines That Think’ and ‘2062: The Year that AI Made”.

Toby is a sought-after keynote speaker on how artificial intelligence influences business, education, warfare, personal development, and finance, among others. His talks were featured at TED, Adobe Pacific Summit, Future Shapers Forum, CEBIT and Quest Future of AI. He has advised a number of leading organizations on their AI strategy such as McKinsey & Co, Bertlesmann, TATA Consulting, SeviceNow, Clayton Utz, the NSW Department of Education, and Penguin Random House.

Prof. Walsh is a passionate advocate for limits to AI to ensure AI is used to improve, not hurt, our lives. Together with Pope Francis, Toby was voted runner up in the Person of the Year Award by the Arm Control Association, recognizing his work in ensuring safe use of AI in warfare.

MARY L. GRAY is a Faculty Affiliate Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. She maintains a faculty position in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with affiliations in Anthropology, Gender Studies, and the Media School, at Indiana University. She trained in anthropology before earning her PhD in Communication from the University of California at San Diego in 2004, under the direction of sociologist Susan Leigh Star.

Mary studies how technology access, material conditions, and everyday uses of tech transform people’s lives. Her most recent book, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass, co-authored with computer scientist Siddharth Suri, explores the lives of people who are paid to train artificial intelligence and, increasingly, serve as “humans in the loop” delivering on-demand information services. Her other books include In Your Face: Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth, Queering the Countryside: New Directions in Rural Queer Studies, a Choice Academic Title for 2016, and Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America, which explored how young people in the rural United States use the Internet to craft their identities, local belonging, and connections to broader queer communities.

Mary is a leading expert in the emerging field of AI and ethics, particularly research methods at the intersections of computer and social sciences. She sits on the editorial boards of Cultural Anthropology, Television and New Media, the International Journal of Communication, and Social Media + Society. Mary has also written for and been covered by popular press venues, including the Harvard Business Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, Nature, The Economist, and Forbes Magazine. She served on the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association and was the Program Chair for the Association’s 113th Annual Meeting. Mary currently sits on several boards, including the Executive Board of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) and Stanford University’s “One-Hundred-Year Study on Artificial Intelligence” (AI100) Standing Committee, commissioned to reflect on the future of AI and recommend directions for its policy implications.

Arthur is a structural engineer, architect, and circular economy innovator. He has spent over a decade turning post-consumer waste into innovative products for businesses and consumers through his company, MINIWIZ. As CEO and founder of MINIWIZ, Arthur is focused on accelerating the shift to a closed-loop circular economy where all products are made from recycled materials and eventually, even those products will be recycled. Today, MINIWIZ is a global leader in transforming post-consumer products into retail store interiors, architectural structures, and consumer goods. Under Arthur’s leadership, MINIWIZ has received the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer Award, The Financial Times’ Earth Award, and The Wall Street Journal’s Asian Innovation Award. Arthur has been a National Geographic Explorer since 2016 and the World Economic Forum recognized him as the Runner up for The Circular Leadership Award 2019 Davos. In February 2019, the World Economic Forum named MINIWIZ as one of the top 11 companies leading the way to a circular economy.

Bunnie is best known for his work hacking the Microsoft Xbox, as well as for his efforts in designing and manufacturing open source hardware, including the chumby (app-playing alarm clock), chibitronics (peel-and-stick electronics for craft), and Novena (DIY laptop). He received his PhD in EE from MIT in 2002. He currently lives in Singapore where he runs a private product design studio, Kosagi, and he actively mentors several startups and students.

Prof Eugene Fitzgerald is CEO of SMART, MIT’s Research Enterprise in Singapore. His research work resulted in the discovery of high mobility strained silicon, the basis of the founding of his first company. He is a practicing researcher, serial innovator and entrepreneur and has founded or co-founded seven enterprises. His latest venture is New Silicon Corporation, a Singapore venture co-founded with colleagues in the SMART Low Energy Electronic Systems program. He is co-author of the book “Inside Real Innovation”. He received his undergraduate degree from MIT in 1985 and his PhD from Cornell University in 1989.

Associate Professor Jeremy Lim is the founder of AMiLi (Asian Microbiome Library), the first gut microbiome bank in Singapore and Southeast Asia. AMiLi’s mission is to advance human health through microbiome science and we work with clinicians, researchers and patient groups to make accessible the microbiome for patient care and research.

Prior to AMiLi, Jeremy founded global consultancy Oliver Wyman’s healthcare consulting practice in Asia in 2012. He has held senior executive roles in both the public and private sectors in Asian healthcare including as director of research in Singapore’s largest healthcare system and as Singapore CEO of a pan-Asian private healthcare group. He continues to serve in the National University of Singapore as co-director of the global health program in the School of Public Health.

Karen Hao is the artificial intelligence reporter for MIT Technology Review. In particular she covers the ethics and social impact of the technology as well as its applications for social good. She also writes the AI newsletter, the Algorithm, which thoughtfully examines the field’s latest news and research. Prior to joining the publication, she was a reporter and data scientist at Quartz and an application engineer at the first startup to spin out of Google X.

Prof. Kedar Hippalgaonkar holds a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor at the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Senior Scientist at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering at the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR). His interests are in the application of ML/AI tools to unearth novel physics in existing or novel materials, especially with an eye for multifunctional devices towards sustainable energy. His research emphasizes on using high-throughput automated experiments via machine learning optimization and rapid characterization to accelerate materials discovery and device innovation.

He has published over 40 research papers, and was nominated as a Journal of Materials Chemistry Emerging Investigator in 2019. He was recognized as a Science and Technology for Society Young Leader in Kyoto in 2015. For graduate research, he was awarded the Materials Research Society Silver Medal in 2014.  He graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Distinction) from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University in 2003 and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley in 2014. While pursuing his doctoral studies, he conducted research on fundamentals of heat, charge and light in solid state materials.

Michel Dyakonov received his PhD in Theoretical Physics (1966) from Ioffe Institute in Saint Petersburg, USSR. He worked at Ioffe Institute until 1998, when he became professor at University of Montpellier, France. He was elected as an Honorary Member of Ioffe Institute (2014). His interests are in the fields of solid-state physics, spin physics, physics of 2D electrons. He is also a recipient of numerous awards including the State Prize of USSR, Beller Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society, and the grand prize from the French Physical Society. His name is connected to several phenomena: Dyakonov-Perel spin relaxation mechanism, Dyakonov surface waves, Dyakonov-Shur instability. Together with Perel, he predicted the Spin Hall Effect which has become a subject of intense studies.

As CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), Bob leads the strategic vision for the company. He received his PhD in plasma physics at MIT, focusing his work on Alcator C-Mod and developing techniques to measure the magnetic field inside tokamak plasmas. During this time, Bob contributed to the design of several small tokamaks using high temperature superconductors (HTS). As an MIT fellow, Bob focused on how entrepreneurship, risk-retirement strategies, and partnerships could increase the speed of fusion from laboratory to market. His work has focused on strategies to leverage the collaboration of private finance and traditional academic resources to speed the path to commercial fusion energy.

Hong Kong Baptist University President Roland Chin worked on machine vision and pattern recognition since the 70’s from automated visual inspection for manufacturing to NASA remote sensing. Now as President of a leading liberal arts university in Asia, he advocates a new renaissance in liberal arts education in which core values and ethics become the DNA of future generations of scientists.

Ryan Pandya is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Perfect Day, a food company on a mission to create delicious animal-free dairy products, while leaving a kinder, greener footprint on the planet. Ryan studied Chemical & Biological Engineering at Tufts University, where he contributed to seminal research on tissue engineered meat at the Kaplan Lab before graduating and going on to work at MassBiologics, a small biopharmaceutical company in Boston, MA. He realized that the same technology used in the pharmaceutical industry could solve other world issues, including one that was particularly personal to him – the need for better dairy alternatives.

Dr. Saif A. Khan obtained a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering at the University Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT), Mumbai where he was the university gold medallist. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006, where he was a Presidential Fellow. In 2006, he joined the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he is currently a tenured Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. His research group at NUS develops new microfluidics-based ‘factories’ for the continuous manufacture of pharmaceuticals and advanced materials in collaboration with several industrial partners worldwide. He has also co-founded two start-up companies focused on advanced materials manufacture and opthalmic drug delivery.

Born in 1975. After graduating from the Nagoya University School of Architecture, Shunsuke Nakamura created media art and completed his PhD (Art and Technology) at the Kyushu Institute of Design Graduate School. He is also a visiting associate professor at the Kyushu Institute of Technology.

He founded SHIKUMI DESIGN in 2005. And His work “KAGURA” - AR musical instrument - won the Prizes of the world contest “Intel® Perceptual Computing Challenge 2013” in the USA, “Sonar+D Startup Competition 2016” in Spain, “Future-Maker Award 2016” in China, “WIRED Audi INNOVATION AWARD 2016” in Japan, and more.

Mr Steve Leonard is a technology-industry leader with a wide range of experiences, having played key roles in building several global technology companies in Software, Hardware and Services. Although a US citizen by birth, Mr Leonard considers himself a member of the global community, having lived and worked outside the US for more than 25 years.

In his current role as Founding Chief Executive of SGInnovate, a company held within the National Research Foundation of Singapore, Mr Leonard has been chartered to help translate some of the 'deep-tech' R&D, for which Singapore has gained a global reputation, into commercial success by working with local and international partners.

Prior to his current role, Mr Leonard served as the Executive Deputy Chairman of the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), the statutory board within the Singapore Government Ministry of Communications and Information, with various responsibilities for the technology and telecommunications environment in Singapore. Mr Leonard continues to serve as the Deputy Chairman of IDA at the request of the Minister.

Mr Leonard serves on the advisory boards of a range of universities and organisations in Singapore.

Dr. Steven Tucker is a Preventive Medical Oncologist and Co-Founder of Re:Mission Health, a digital platform that aims to reduce the burden of preventable non-communicable diseases. By integrating personal nutrition, continuous monitoring, and community building, Re:Mission Health brings education, empowerment, and accountability to individuals and families at the highest risk of disease by starting with cancer survivors and their families.

Dr. Tucker trained in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology at the UCLA Center for Health Sciences and joined the UCLA Clinical faculty in 1999. In 2006, he moved to Singapore to develop a global oncology clinical trials program and in 2011 founded Tucker Medical, a multi-specialty medical practice caring for regional patients. As a leader in population health in Asia, he has had strategic roles at CXA Group, MetLife Asia, Lumen Lab Innovation Center, and was founding Global Health Advisor at Singtel. Dr. Tucker is a member of the faculty at the MIT - Singapore Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) teaching medical innovation, design thinking, and entrepreneurship.

Tonio BUONASSISI’s research interests are at the intersection of machine learning, high-throughput experimentation and high-performance computing. He founded the MIT PVLab and co-founded the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems in Boston, USA, and is known for his work in the field of photovoltaics, predictive process simulation, defects, multiscale characterization (synchrotron), photoelectrochemistry, system design and modeling, and technoeconomic analysis. His work was recognized with a Google Faculty Award, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), MIT Everett Moore Baker Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, National Science Foundation CAREER Award, among others.

Yuki Hanyu got his Ph.D in chemistry from Oxford University on 2010. After working as a research scientist in Tohoku University and Toshiba Research and Development Center, he founded in 2014 the "Shojinmeat Project", the world’s first citizen science community for DIY open-source cell-based meat. Based on the low-cost cell culture technology developed in the Shojinmeat Project, he founded IntegriCulture Inc. in 2015 to commercialise cell-based meat. The company is developing food grade culture media and a wide range of cell-based products such as cosmetics, foie gras and meat.