CERN Accelerating science

Adam Marblestone is working to roadmap and launch science and technology moonshot projects that call for novel organizational and funding models. He is currently a Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow and affiliated with the Federation of American Scientists (FAS).

Previously, he was a research scientist at Google DeepMind studying connections between neuroscience and artificial intelligence. He was also Chief Strategy Officer of the brain-computer interface company Kernel, a research scientist in Ed Boyden's Synthetic Neurobiology Group at MIT working to develop new technologies for brain circuit mapping, a PhD student in biophysics with George Church and colleagues at Harvard, and a theoretical physics student with Michel Devoret at Yale working on quantum information theory.

His work has been recognized with a Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 Award (2018), a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship (2010) and a Goldwater Scholarship (2008). He has also helped to start companies like BioBright, and advised foundations such as the Open Philanthropy Project.

Matthew Liao is a philosopher interested in a wide range of issues including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, moral psychology, and bioethics. He is the Director of the Center for Bioethics and Affiliated Professor at New York University. He is the author or editor of The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, The Right to Be Loved, Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality, Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Current Controversies in Bioethics and over 60 articles in philosophy and bioethics.

Previously, Matthew was the Deputy Director of the Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University, a Research Fellow in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and at Johns Hopkins University. He obtained his doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University and graduated magna cum laude with an AB from Princeton University.

Hiroaki Kitano is CEO of Sony AI Inc., President and CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Executive Vice President of Sony Corporation, President of The Systems Biology Institute, and Professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University. He is also a Founding President of the RoboCup Federation. 
Kitano pioneered areas of massively parallel AI, systems biology, intelligent robotics, and initiated grand challenges including RoboCup and Nobel Turing Challenge.
He served as President of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (2009-2011), a member of scientific advisory board for European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and Member of the AI & Robotics Council of World Economic Forum (2016-2018), Sir Louis Matheson distinguished visiting professor at Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI). 
He received The Computers and Thought Award from the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 1993, Prix Ars Electronica 2000, Design Award 2001 from Japan Inter-Design Forum, and Nature Award for Creative Mentoring in Science (Mid carrier award) in 2009, as well as being an invited artist for Biennale di Venezia 2000 and Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2001. 

Koray is the Vice President of Research of DeepMind and one of the world's foremost experts in deep learning. He previously led the deep-learning team at DeepMind, where he led the research teams that pioneered algorithmic breakthroughs including DQN, IMPALA and WaveNet, which powers the voice of the Google Assistant for millions of users around the world.

Before joining DeepMind, Koray was a researcher at NEC Labs America. He holds a masters in aerospace engineering and a PhD in computer science from NYU, where he was part of Yann LeCun’s group within the Computational and Biological Learning Lab working on unsupervised learning and multi-stage architectures for object recognition.

Daniel Kahneman is Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Emeritus at the Woodrow Wilson School, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University, and a fellow of the Center for Rationality at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Dr. Kahneman has held the position of professor of psychology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1970-1978), the University of British Columbia (1978-1986), and the University of California, Berkeley (1986-1994).

Dr. Kahneman is a member of the National Academy of Science, the Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the Econometric Society.

He has been the recipient of many awards, among them the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association (1982) and the Grawemeyer Prize (2002), both jointly with Amos Tversky, the Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (1995), the Hilgard Award for Career Contributions to General Psychology (1995), the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2002), the Lifetime Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association (2007), and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2013). Dr. Kahneman holds honorary degrees from numerous Universities.

Simon Eickhoff is a full professor and chair of the Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf and the director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7, Brain and Behavior) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. He is furthermore a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Science Institute of Automation.

Workig at the interface between neuroanatomy, data-science and brain medicine, the he aims to obtain a more detailed characterization of the organization of the human brain and its inter-individual variability in order to better understand its changes in advanced age as well as neurological and psychiatric disorders.

This goal is pursued by the development and application of novel analysis tools and approaches for large-scale, multi-modal analysis of brain structure, function and connectivity as well as by machine-learning for single subject prediction of cognitive and socio-affective traits and ultimately precision medicine.

Luisa Damiano is an Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Messina, and is the coordinator of the Epistemology of the Sciences of the Artificial Research Group (ESARG) within CERCO (Research Ceter on Complex Systems, University of Bergamo, both in Italy. Her main research fields are Epistemology of Complex Systems, Cognitive Sciences and Philosophy of and of Biology and Sciences of the Artificial, with a focus on the Synthetic Modeling of Life and Cognition.

She wrote several articles and essays, and two books (Unità in dialogo. Un nuovo stile per la conoscenza, Mondadori, Milano 2009, being translated into English; Vivre avec les robots. Essai sur l'empathie artificielle, with P. Dumouchel, Seuil, Paris, in press, being translated into Italian and into English). She is preparing, together with Paul Dumouchel, a book about Artificial Empathy which will be published both in English (The Michigan State University Press, under contract).

Kyle Cranmer is a Professor of Physics and Data Science at New York University. He is an experimental particle physicists working, primarily, on the Large Hadron Collider, based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Professor Cranmer obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005 and his B.A. in Mathematics and Physics from Rice University. He was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering in 2007 and the National Science Foundation's Career Award in 2009.

Professor Cranmer developed a framework that enables collaborative statistical modeling, which was used extensively for the discovery of the Higgs boson in July, 2012. His current interests are at the intersection of physics, statistics, and machine learning.

Jacob Colker is an early-stage investor and founder focused on the intersection of A.I. and practical commercial use cases. He leads the AI-first startup incubator at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), where he has helped to create numerous AI-first startups including WellSaid, BlueCanoe, Lexion, and more.

Previous he wore every non-technical hat in a startup (CEO, CMO, GM, Co-Founder). He started working with Data Mining in 2006, Crowdsourcing in 2008, Machine Learning in 2011, and Computer Vision / Speech / NLP / Deep Learning in 2017. He also taught MBA-level entrepreneurship for six years at the University of Washington—Foster School of Business.

Milind Tambe is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of Center for Research in Computation and Society at Harvard University; concurrently, he is also Director "AI for Social Good" at Google Research India. He is a recipient of the IJCAI John McCarthy Award, ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award from AAMAS, AAAI Robert S Engelmore Memorial Lecture award, INFORMS Wagner prize, Rist Prize of the Military Operations Research Society, Columbus Fellowship Foundation Homeland security award, AAMAS influential paper award, best paper awards at conferences such as AAMAS, IJCAI, IVA, and meritorious commendations from agencies such as the US Coast Guard and the Los Angeles Airport. Prof. Tambe is a fellow of AAAI and ACM.