Physical & Life Sciences

Scholars dedicating their careers to the study of living organisms and non-living systems

Patrick Drechsler

Patrick Drechsler

Dr. Patrick Drechsler is a software developer at MATHEMA GmbH. His current focus is on Testing, TDD, Domain-Driven Design and Functional Programming. You have a good chance of meeting him at regional software crafting events such as Softwerkskammer or other local meetups.

Dr. Patrick Drechsler is a software developer at MATHEMA GmbH. His current focus is on Testing, TDD, Domain-Driven Design and Functional Programming. You have a good chance of meeting him at regional software crafting events such as Softwerkskammer ... Show more

Azure McFarlane

Azure McFarlane

Azure is a Senior Consultant at Hitachi in the Washington, DC area. Prior to joining tech consulting in 2022, she spent in pharmaceutical manufacturing, discovering Power Automate in late 2019.

Passionate about people and hoping to assume her final form as a bot, she's on a mission to educate and enable more women and underrepresented groups into tech, one Flow at a time.

Azure is a Senior Consultant at Hitachi in the Washington, DC area. Prior to joining tech consulting in 2022, she spent in pharmaceutical manufacturing, discovering Power Automate in late 2019. Passionate about people and hoping to assume her fina... Show more

Nat Girish

Nat Girish

Nat Girish has been an Agile Practitioner since 2010, and has worked with some of the best Agile Coaches, to transform teams that build Products and Services for Ford's Order Fulfilment domain. He is an avid adopter of an Experimentation Mindset to deliver business value.

Nat Girish has been an Agile Practitioner since 2010, and has worked with some of the best Agile Coaches, to transform teams that build Products and Services for Ford's Order Fulfilment domain. He is an avid adopter of an Experimentation Mindset to d... Show more

Amanda Martin

Amanda Martin

Raised in a no-tech farming community in rural Arizona, Dr. Amanda Martin discovered the transformative power of technology and the world of possibilities it opens. This revelation came in college when open-source software became her catalyst for personal growth, reshaping her perspective on how technology can democratize access, empower collaboration, and provide solutions to pressing global issues.

With her Doctorate in Computer Science, Dr. Martin passionately embraced the ethos of open-source endeavors and now serves as the Director of Program Management at the Linux Foundation. Currently, within the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), championing open-source security and global collaboration.

Never forgetting her roots, Dr. Martin continues to propagate her lifelong commitment to education, teaching subjects ranging from technology to physics. Yet, it's her sustained awe for science and technology and her passion to share this wonder with as many individuals as possible that truly make her an inspirational figure.

In essence, Dr. Amanda Martin stands as a testament to the transformative power of open-source technology, continually inspiring others to explore the remarkable potentials of this realm.

Raised in a no-tech farming community in rural Arizona, Dr. Amanda Martin discovered the transformative power of technology and the world of possibilities it opens. This revelation came in college when open-source software became her catalyst for per... Show more

Daita Serghi

Daita Serghi

Drawing from a scientific background and over 20 years of experience in higher education and sustainability as an educator, researcher, and staff member, Daita has a profound interest in education programs that foster improved human connections, communication, and learning on a broad scale. In her current role as a Senior Education Manager, she is responsible for developing, innovating and advancing AASHE’s education vision and strategy, overseeing professional learning initiatives encompassing virtual and in-person workshops, webinars, and other educational programs. Prior to joining AASHE, Daita was the first Interim Sustainability Coordinator for the University of Hawai‘i System, and also taught courses and integrated sustainability in the curriculum at the University of Hawai‘i. Daita is a LEED Green Associate, an ISSP Sustainability Excellence Professional (SEP), and holds a BS degree in Molecular Biology and Biosciences from the University of Bucharest, Romania and MA, MPhil and PhD degrees in Biological Sciences from Columbia University in the City of New York.

Drawing from a scientific background and over 20 years of experience in higher education and sustainability as an educator, researcher, and staff member, Daita has a profound interest in education programs that foster improved human connections, comm... Show more

Víctor Mayoral Vilches

Víctor Mayoral Vilches

Víctor has spent more than a decade building and advancing the field of robot cybersecurity, leading pioneering projects in which Artificial Intelligence is applied to cybersecurity automation across large-scale attack surfaces such as robots. His work includes internationally award-winning publications that helped pioneer the field of AI Security, notably PentestGPT (USENIX 2024, Distinguished Artifact Award Winner). He holds two engineering degrees (EE and CS) completed simultaneously, and a PhD in Robot Cybersecurity from the University of Klagenfurt (Austria).

He is a researcher and an investor in robotics and is regarded as one of the world’s leading experts in robot cybersecurity and computing architectures for robots, following his contributions to the creation of the Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2), which powers 95% of the commercial robots worldwide. He has delivered talks at security forums across the globe, including Black Hat Europe, Black Hat USA, USENIX, and others.

Víctor has spent more than a decade building and advancing the field of robot cybersecurity, leading pioneering projects in which Artificial Intelligence is applied to cybersecurity automation across large-scale attack surfaces such as robots. His wo... Show more

Dr. Elise A. Simmons

Dr. Elise A. Simmons

Dr. Elise A. Simmons is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Albany State University and a mathematics educator and researcher whose work centers on mathematics education, STEM education, and student success. With more than 25 years of experience in secondary and higher education, her foundational work in mathematics education, STEM student success, and academic support began at Florida A&M University. Her scholarship focuses on gateway mathematics, course redesign, instructional technology, and student success within HBCU contexts. Her work emphasizes evidence-informed teaching, curriculum improvement, and scalable approaches that strengthen student learning, persistence, and success.

Dr. Elise A. Simmons is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Albany State University and a mathematics educator and researcher whose work centers on mathematics education, STEM education, and student success. With more than 25 years of experience... Show more

Phi Bang Nguyen

Phi Bang Nguyen

I am an embedded software engineer and multimedia tech lead at NXP, where I have worked for the past four years. I am also an active contributor to the Zephyr open-source project, where I help maintain the video and mpipe (multimedia pipeline) subsystems.
I am particularly passionate about imaging and video, a field I have worked in for about 25 years across both research and industry. Over that time, I have covered topics such as image processing, computer vision, human-computer interaction, camera and digital rights management on Linux, Android and more recently Zephyr RTOS, spanning algorithm design, low-level drivers, and high-level applications.

I am an embedded software engineer and multimedia tech lead at NXP, where I have worked for the past four years. I am also an active contributor to the Zephyr open-source project, where I help maintain the video and mpipe (multimedia pipeline) subsys... Show more

Andoni Dharma

Andoni Dharma

Andoni Dharma is an organisational consultant, trainer and facilitator based in Mallorca, Spain. He works with companies that can feel something wearing their teams down long before it shows up in the numbers: tension in the room, leaders stuck in firefighting, people quietly leaving.

His path started inside the corporate world, as a digital marketing director, and moved into human development in 2009. Between 2015 and 2019 he lived and worked across India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia, facilitating more than 200 workshops and over 100 retreats with leaders and teams in the middle of pressure and change.

Today he brings both worlds together. He is accredited by the World Happiness Foundation for the Workplace Wellbeing Certification, audited by AENOR, and works with his own method, the Magnetic Ecosystem™, built on six dimensions: Culture, Leadership and Trust in the organisation, and Balance, Care and Connection in its people.

On stage he speaks about conscious leadership, burnout and energy at work, and what it really takes to build teams people do not want to leave. No theory delivered from a distance: he talks about what he has seen in the room.

Andoni Dharma is an organisational consultant, trainer and facilitator based in Mallorca, Spain. He works with companies that can feel something wearing their teams down long before it shows up in the numbers: tension in the room, leaders stuck in fi... Show more

Sydney Kuczenski

Sydney Kuczenski

Sydney (she/her) works across departments as part of the Green Labs team, developing professional relationships with research personnel. She supports labs and promotes sustainability at the individual programming level through Green Lab Certification, Shut the Sash Competition, and International Freezer Challenge.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Marine Science (Biological Oceanography Concentration) from NC State University and has 5 years of laboratory research experience. Outside of work she spends time rock climbing, kayaking, and hiking with her pup and enjoys a sunny afternoon in a hammock with a book.

Sydney (she/her) works across departments as part of the Green Labs team, developing professional relationships with research personnel. She supports labs and promotes sustainability at the individual programming level through Green Lab Certification... Show more

Maren Kuhne

Maren Kuhne

Dr. Maren Kuhne ist wiss. Mitarbeiterin im Studiengang Humanmedizin an der MSB. Ihre Passion liegt in der Konzeption innovativer Lehrkonzepte. Sie schafft es, durch ihre eigene Begeisterung für biochemische Themen und den Einsatz modernster didaktischer Methoden die Studierenden mitzureißen. Aktuell vertieft sie ihr Wissen im Bereich Bildungswissenschaften durch das Studium „Medical & Health Education“ an der MSH.
Neben der Lehre in der Humanmedizin und Biotechnologie liegt ihr wissenschaftlicher Schwerpunkt in der immunologisch-zellbiologischen Grundlagenforschung. Sie kann jahrelange Forschungstätigkeit im Bereich der Herstellung monoklonaler Antikörper sowie eine Promotion an der FU Berlin/Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin auf dem Gebiet der T-Zell-Immunologie nachweisen.

Dr. Maren Kuhne ist wiss. Mitarbeiterin im Studiengang Humanmedizin an der MSB. Ihre Passion liegt in der Konzeption innovativer Lehrkonzepte. Sie schafft es, durch ihre eigene Begeisterung für biochemische Themen und den Einsatz modernster didaktisc... Show more

Martin Brodeur

Martin Brodeur

Martin Brodeur is an Ontario Certified Teacher (19 years) with a background in physics and embedded systems (BSc), college electronics, and philosophy of science (MA, BA). Over roughly a year, he built an AI-made production system through automated agent workflows: about 350,000 lines of TypeScript, without opening a single source file. After it locked up twice, he built an automated audit loop — Orthogonal Auditing by Rotation, with a P2-floor stop — that brought it into production. His open-source security work has produced 23 CVEs (September 2026), including in IBM Docling, vLLM, Red Hat, Hyperledger, Apple swift-nio and OpenTelemetry. GitHub: brodmart

Martin Brodeur is an Ontario Certified Teacher (19 years) with a background in physics and embedded systems (BSc), college electronics, and philosophy of science (MA, BA). Over roughly a year, he built an AI-made production system through automated a... Show more

Phil Conway

Phil Conway

Phil Conway is a Dev Advocate at SandboxAQ, a Google-originated startup focused on solving problems through the application of Quantum & AI-based technologies.

He has nearly two decades of experience covering networking, security, cloud computing and solutions architecture for global organizations, financial institutions and government departments.

Phil Conway is a Dev Advocate at SandboxAQ, a Google-originated startup focused on solving problems through the application of Quantum & AI-based technologies. He has nearly two decades of experience covering networking, security, cloud computing... Show more

Devansh Pandey

Devansh Pandey

Devansh Pandey is a PhD candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology at The University of Texas at Austin, working in the lab of Dr. Vagheesh Narasimhan. His research combines large-scale medical imaging, statistical genetics, and machine learning to understand and predict cardiovascular disease. His current work develops a multimodal AI framework for precision preventive cardiology that integrates deep-learning representations of multi-organ MRI with polygenic risk scores to predict coronary artery disease in the UK Biobank. His broader work spans genome-wide association studies, Mendelian randomization, and deep learning on cardiac imaging, with the goal of translating population-scale biobank data into individualized tools for preventive cardiology.

Devansh Pandey is a PhD candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology at The University of Texas at Austin, working in the lab of Dr. Vagheesh Narasimhan. His research combines large-scale medical imaging, statistical genetics, and machine learn... Show more

Abdurrahmon Akesire

Abdurrahmon Akesire

Akesire Abdurrahmon is a dedicated and ambitious final-year student at the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), specializing in Applied Geophysics. With a strong passion for geophysical exploration especially in the energy and mineral exploration, he has developed expertise in integrating magnetic, gravity, radiometric and vertical electrical sounding (VES) data for subsurface analysis using software like ArcGIS, Oasis Montaj, WinResist, and most importantly, his knowledge on python in application of Data Science in various Geophysical Investigations. His academic journey has been marked by excellence in research, particularly in the application of geophysical techniques for energy and mineral exploration in Nigeria.

He has actively participated in several fieldwork, geophysical data acquisition, analysis and interpretation, enhancing his practical knowledge in the discipline. His current research focuses on evaluating iron ore deposits in Calabar, Southern Nigeria, analyses of petroleum potential in some selected areas in Ondo State (a potential green field for oil and gas) utilizing geophysical methods to support economic and industrial development. He also has a lined up research work on application of geophysical methods to analyze geothermal potential zones in some selected areas in Nigeria.

Beyond academics, he is a proactive problem solver, a leader and a keen learner, with aspirations to contribute significantly to the energy industry through innovative exploration techniques and sustainable energy management.

Akesire Abdurrahmon is a dedicated and ambitious final-year student at the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), specializing in Applied Geophysics. With a strong passion for geophysical exploration especially in the energy and mineral expl... Show more

Raphaela Seeger

Raphaela Seeger

Platform Engineer at Puzzle ITC with a passion for CI/CD, automation, and cloud-native technologies.
I am committed to create scalable and secure software delivery pipelines for our customers. I love to implement modern, cutting-edge technologies such as Kubernetes and Dagger are driving the current innovations in software development and deployment processes.

Platform Engineer at Puzzle ITC with a passion for CI/CD, automation, and cloud-native technologies. I am committed to create scalable and secure software delivery pipelines for our customers. I love to implement modern, cutting-edge technologies su... Show more

Sam Rajamanickam

Sam Rajamanickam

Sam Rajamanickam, AIA, WELL AP, is a Principal at Design Collective who focuses on student housing and campus life facilities. Over 30 years, he has partnered with institutions including Marquette University, Rutgers University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Idaho and Towson University to plan and deliver student life environments that support belonging, wellness, and connection.

Sam became interested in Third Place theory while observing a persistent challenge: students living in close proximity yet feeling increasingly lonely. This paradox led him to explore how Ray Oldenburg's sociological framework could become a practical tool for housing professionals to evaluate and strengthen campus environments.

His approach emphasizes that physical design, programming, and policy must work together as an integrated system. As a WELL Accredited Professional, he brings wellness expertise to creating spaces that serve all students, with particular attention to equity, accessibility, and psychological safety—empowering housing officers to audit existing spaces and intentionally design environments where students naturally connect.

Sam Rajamanickam, AIA, WELL AP, is a Principal at Design Collective who focuses on student housing and campus life facilities. Over 30 years, he has partnered with institutions including Marquette University, Rutgers University, Johns Hopkins Univers... Show more

Tobias Borchert

Tobias Borchert

-Researcher in the field of neuro-cardiology, focused on quantitative molecular imaging in the heart-brain axis via PET/CT at Hannover Medical School.
-Research and development scientist at Cardior Pharmaceuticals GmbH, developing inhibitors targeting microRNA's in cardiac diseases.
-Member of the Technology Transfer Office's patent team at Leibniz University Hannover.

-Researcher in the field of neuro-cardiology, focused on quantitative molecular imaging in the heart-brain axis via PET/CT at Hannover Medical School. -Research and development scientist at Cardior Pharmaceuticals GmbH, developing inhibitors targeti... Show more

Solmaz Mohadjer

Solmaz Mohadjer

Course developer and lecturer for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement of the Transdisciplinary Course Program at the University of Tübingen. Doctorate in geosciences with a focus on natural hazards and disaster risk. Currently serves as the executive editor for Geoscience Communication and is the chair of the European Geosciences Union’s Outreach Committee. Personal website: solmazmohadjer.com

Course developer and lecturer for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement of the Transdisciplinary Course Program at the University of Tübingen. Doctorate in geosciences with a focus on natural hazards and disaster risk. Currently serves as the executi... Show more

Tanmay Dikshit

Tanmay Dikshit

Tanmay S Dikshit
Founder – Cyber Sanskar
is a highly energetic keynote speaker, master trainer, and cyber-intelligence thought leader with over 25+ years of international-level experience in advanced technologies and digital innovation ecosystems. He regularly delivers mission-critical training to military personnel, intelligence units, detectives, and security forces, and is a trusted spokesperson on Cyber Industry & Digital Transformation at leading organizations, universities, and institutions. He actively contributes to academia as a Board of Studies Member and Member of the Departmental Advisory Board, shaping industry-aligned curricula. He has received prestigious Hall of Fame recognition as an Information Security Researcher for responsibly reporting security vulnerabilities across 50+ internal systems of reputed international organizations. His expert insights are regularly featured on reputed radio stations, newspapers, print media, and national TV news channels, and today many of students trained under his guidance are successfully working across the global cyber and technology ecosystem, building impactful careers and strong professional reputations worldwide.

Tanmay S Dikshit Founder – Cyber Sanskar is a highly energetic keynote speaker, master trainer, and cyber-intelligence thought leader with over 25+ years of international-level experience in advanced technologies and digital innovation ecosystems. ... Show more

Isaias Thomas Biju

Isaias Thomas Biju

Isaias Thomas Biju is a Year 4 Computer Science student at Heriot-Watt University Dubai, with interests spanning technology, research, student leadership, and community building. He is an AWS Student Builder Group Leader, establishing the first AWS Student Builder Group at Heriot-Watt University, where he is working to create an accessible community for students to learn, build, collaborate, and develop practical cloud skills together. He is also the Founder and Chair of the BCS Student Chapter at Heriot-Watt University Dubai—the first across Heriot-Watt University’s global campuses—through which he has helped build a professional bridge between students, academia, and industry through workshops, technical sessions, and collaborative events. Academically, Isaias has maintained a consistent record of top grades and is a three-time recipient of the Deputy Principal’s Award as well as the ICL Prize for the best-performing first-year student in his Computer Science degree. His work extends into research and technical communication, including undergraduate research in Human-Computer Interaction through the MACS Athena SWAN Undergraduate Bursary Scheme and work exploring accessibility in video game systems. Beyond university, he has spoken at TEDx University of Birmingham Dubai on the intersection of robotics and human intelligence and was selected as the only student speaker at the Sharjah Entrepreneurship Festival 2026, where he delivered a workshop on using geolocation data for business decision-making with QGIS. Across these experiences, Isaias is particularly passionate about making technical ideas approachable, creating spaces where students can learn from one another, and encouraging students to step into unfamiliar areas of technology without feeling that they must first be experts.

Isaias Thomas Biju is a Year 4 Computer Science student at Heriot-Watt University Dubai, with interests spanning technology, research, student leadership, and community building. He is an AWS Student Builder Group Leader, establishing the first AWS S... Show more

Joshua Palmer

Joshua Palmer

Dr. Palmer has presented and published on psychiatric topics across the lifespan including screening for adolescent vaping use, adolescent substance use, opioid use disorder treatments, neurobiological perspectives of mental illness, and methods to reduce medication use for behavioral disturbances in dementia. Today, he continues to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the treatment delivery of psychiatric and substance use treatment.

Clinically, Dr. Palmer currently practices as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner at P.K. Mullick and Associates, treating adult patients for general psychiatric conditions, substance use disorders, and severe persistent mental illness such as schizophrenia. Currently, Dr. Palmer’s clinical interest is using esketamine for treatment resistant depression.

Dr. Palmer has presented and published on psychiatric topics across the lifespan including screening for adolescent vaping use, adolescent substance use, opioid use disorder treatments, neurobiological perspectives of mental illness, and methods to r... Show more

Christine Noble Seller

Christine Noble Seller

Christine Noble Seller is an interspecies advocate, systems thinker and bridge-builder working at the intersection of intuitive interspecies communication (IIC), collaborative decision-making and systems change. Practising IIC since 2014, her work increasingly focuses on collaborative contexts with researchers, conservationists and initiatives to explore how wildlife perspectives can inform decisions that affect them.

Her collaborative work includes contributing as a co-author to "Exploring Collaboration across Natural Science and Intuitive Interspecies Communication", presented at the 3rd World Biodiversity Forum in Davos (2024). She is a core team member of Ocean Voices, an IIC practitioner working group, and the Ocean Transformation Programme, led by Dr. Lynne Shannon, Principal Researcher and head of the Marine Sustainability Lab at the University of Cape Town. Ocean Transformation brings together IIC practitioners and professionals from diverse fields, integrating information received through IIC into collaborative research and practice.

Christine is a founding member of Nature’s Council, an international advisory group bringing more-than-human perspectives into decision-making, and a board member of Giving Animals Voice.

Christine Noble Seller is an interspecies advocate, systems thinker and bridge-builder working at the intersection of intuitive interspecies communication (IIC), collaborative decision-making and systems change. Practising IIC since 2014, her work in... Show more

Vyacheslav Tykhonov

Vyacheslav Tykhonov

Vyacheslav (Slava) Tykhonov is the head of Artificial Intelligence and Interoperability at CODATA and has a background in information and computer science. Slava has worked for more than 25 years in the area of software development, research and innovation for national, European and international research infrastructures. Most recently, as a Senior R&D Engineer and FAIR data expert, Slava participated in various projects funded by the European Commission. For many years, he has been an active member of the Open-Source community around the Harvard Dataverse platform. As a knowledge engineer and Semantic Web enthusiast, Slava explored and implemented new solutions and data services, from AI and data enrichment to long-term archiving. Slava is co-author of the emerging Croissant for Machine Learning standard.

Vyacheslav (Slava) Tykhonov is the head of Artificial Intelligence and Interoperability at CODATA and has a background in information and computer science. Slava has worked for more than 25 years in the area of software development, research and inno... Show more

Sudhanshu Shrivastava

Sudhanshu Shrivastava

Sudhanshu Shrivastava is a Graduate Student Researcher in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis working on medical imaging and privacy-aware AI. His research spans computational imaging, biomedical image analysis, and multi-site learning for healthcare. He is an author of a recent federated learning study on glaucoma monitoring from color fundus photographs and is interested in secure, deployable AI for real-world clinical settings.

Sudhanshu Shrivastava is a Graduate Student Researcher in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis working on medical imaging and privacy-aware AI. His research spans computational imaging, biomedical image analysis, and multi-site learning fo... Show more

Andrew Pennington

Andrew Pennington

Andrew Pennington, BS, CCRC, EMT-B, is an EMS Lieutenant and Shift Officer in the volunteer fire and rescue service and a Certified Clinical Research Coordinator at Children’s National Hospital. Since 2022, he has worked in the Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine under the guidance of Laura Tosi, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in rare bone diseases, particularly osteogenesis imperfecta.

His work at Children’s National has provided experience with osteogenesis imperfecta and other rare skeletal disorders, patient and family education, clinical research, and the challenges patients with rare disease encounter across the healthcare system. His EMS experience provides the corresponding prehospital perspective on caring for patients when specialized expertise may not be immediately available.

Andrew holds a BS in Psychology and is currently a graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in Anatomy & Translational Sciences. His educational interests focus on translating specialized medical knowledge into practical, field-relevant information for EMS and public-safety professionals.

Andrew Pennington, BS, CCRC, EMT-B, is an EMS Lieutenant and Shift Officer in the volunteer fire and rescue service and a Certified Clinical Research Coordinator at Children’s National Hospital. Since 2022, he has worked in the Department of Orthopae... Show more

Francisco Gutierrez

Francisco Gutierrez

Security Engineer con 6 años de trayectoria en seguridad ofensiva. Especializado en Red Teaming, infraestructura y entornos Cloud, su trabajo se centra en la explotación técnica de vulnerabilidades y la simulación de adversarios para equipos multidisciplinarios. Actualmente, investiga la convergencia entre la Inteligencia Artificial y la seguridad ofensiva. Su enfoque combina la implementación matemática de modelos de ML con el hacking de infraestructura para exponer riesgos críticos en la cadena de suministro de modelos.

Security Engineer con 6 años de trayectoria en seguridad ofensiva. Especializado en Red Teaming, infraestructura y entornos Cloud, su trabajo se centra en la explotación técnica de vulnerabilidades y la simulación de adversarios para equipos multidis... Show more

Brian Daza

Brian Daza

Brian is a skilled data professional with a strong academic background. During his career, he has always dealt with data in some way or the other. With a degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Utrecht University), he originally focused on developing drug discovery tools but shifted his focus to data analytics.

During his PhD at KU Leuven Brian developed 3D-printed chips that allowed to grow of stem cells on a chip, that could further be analyzed using state-of-the-art sequencing tools. He had to integrate many different types of data (microscopy images, genetic sequencing, etc.) to be able to validate the results. He often used scripting tools (R, Python) to develop and integrate these pipelines.

He always had an affinity with information technology and he decided to follow his passion for data with a focus on data engineering. Brian worked on multiple projects since then with Immoweb, Accenture, and Orange Business to grow further in data engineering. He implemented orchestration tools for ELT client workflows and co-developed a prediction application.

Brian has experience in Microsoft Azure, extensive expertise in open-source tooling (Python, R, Airflow, Kubernetes, etc.), and is a (AWS) certified cloud practitioner.

He enjoys spending time outdoors, climbing, and playing his bass guitar outside of work.

Brian is a skilled data professional with a strong academic background. During his career, he has always dealt with data in some way or the other. With a degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Utrecht University), he originally focused on developing drug... Show more

Suneeth M

Suneeth M

Suneeth Maraboina is a Senior Systems Engineer at Apple, where he designs and develops audio modules for AirPlay and CarPlay, including AI-based approaches to improving audio quality. He has spent 20 years in multimedia, audio, and signal processing — building the core media stack at Roku, leading acoustics and integrating Dolby Atmos into Windows audio drivers at Dolby Laboratories, and developing audio drivers and processing objects at Qualcomm, Intel, and Microsoft.

That work has one thing in common: it ships compiled into devices he can never reach again. It is the constraint behind his talk on the six laws of designing SDKs for hardware — and what happens to all of them when the newest thing in your library is a file of neural network weights.

He is an IEEE Senior Member, an IETE Fellow, and an SCRS Distinguished Fellow, holds a master's in signal processing from IIT Guwahati, and reviews for technical journals and judges hackathons across the US.

Suneeth Maraboina is a Senior Systems Engineer at Apple, where he designs and develops audio modules for AirPlay and CarPlay, including AI-based approaches to improving audio quality. He has spent 20 years in multimedia, audio, and signal processing ... Show more

Raj Shah

Raj Shah

Raj is a Mechatronics, Perception, and Controls Engineer with a background in Engineering and Computational Mechanics from IIT Delhi, where he also pursued a minor in Computer Science and advanced AI coursework. His work spans robotics, ADAS, vehicle dynamics, and simulation, with experience at Jaguar Land Rover and the University of Stuttgart. At Origin, he builds robotics systems across perception and controls, having developed and deployed a differential IK control system from scratch and now working on real-time visual servoing. He is passionate about understanding complex systems from first principles, exploring the startup ecosystem, and connecting with people building ambitious technology. Outside of work, he enjoys adventure sports and board games.

Raj is a Mechatronics, Perception, and Controls Engineer with a background in Engineering and Computational Mechanics from IIT Delhi, where he also pursued a minor in Computer Science and advanced AI coursework. His work spans robotics, ADAS, vehicle... Show more

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