Jury

The Jury of The Robot Of The Year gathers very high profiles in the artificial intelligence and robotics field with a wide range of expertise: scientists, entrepreneurs, economists, philosophers and sociologists from Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle East.

 

Pieter ABBEEL
Prof UC Berkeley, Co-Director of Berkley Al Research Lab, founder at covariant.ai & Gradescope

Francis BACH
Researcher at INRIA, leading the SIERRA project-team, within the Computer Science department of Ecole Normale Superieure.

Irakli BERIDZE
Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, United Nations, UNICRI.

Julie CAREDDA
KPMG Associate, AI & Data Analytics.

Raja CHATILA
Director of ISIR - Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics.

John CLANCY
CMO at nTitle.

Laurence DEVILLERS
Professor of Computer Science University of Paris-Sorbonne 4 - LIMSI/CNRS.

Anca DRAGAN
Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS).

Ilan DRAY
VP of Creative at Cybereason.

Sheldon FERNANDEZ
CEO at DarwinAI.

Kay FIRTH-BUTTERFIELD
Head, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at World Economic Forum.

Vincent FOURNIER
Fine art photographer exploring significant utopian and futuristic stories.

Yann GOZLAN
Founding President at Creative Valley.

Douglas HEINTZMAN
Blockchain and Disruptive Technologies Practice Lead at the Burnie Group.

Peter HINSSEN
Co-founder & Partner at nexxworks.

Luc JULIA
Vice President of Innovation
Samsung Electronics - Strategy and Innovation Center.


Bruno MAISONNIER
CEO and Founder - AnotherBrain. Mentor of The Robot Of The Year first edition.

Mohan MATTHEN
Professor of Philosophy and senior Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Perception at the University of Toronto.

Juergen H. MAYER
Founding Partner at J. MAYER H. und Partner, Architect mbB.

Vivienne MING
Founder & Chair, Socos Labs.

Oscar Di MONTIGNY
Chief Innovation, Sustainability & Value Strategy Manager at Banca Mediolanum . Author of best seller Economy 0.0

Julien PENDERS
Co-founder & COO at Bloomlife.

Mohammad Javad SHAFIEE
Research Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo, Co-Founder and VP of Research at DarwinAI.

Yoav SHOHAM
Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. Co-founder and chairman at AI21, WeCode.org and Figure 8.

Luc SOLER
Professor associated to the Endocrine and Digestive Surgical team in the University Hospital of Strasbourg. Manager of the Research and Development in computer assisted surgery team of IRCAD.

Ernesto SOMMA
Head of Innovation and Incentives Business Unit at Invitalia.

Claude TEROSIER
CEO & Founder, Magic Makers.

Serge TISSERON
Psychiatrist, member of the Academy of Technology, Founding President of "Institute for the study of relations between humans and robots" (IERHR)

Frederic VACHER
Head of Innovation 3D EXPERIENCE Lab at Dassault Systèmes.

Russ WINER
Professor of Marketing, Stern School of Business, New York University.

Liesl Yearsley
CEO, Co-Founder at Akin is Humanizing Artificial Intelligence.