Alex Chapman
Alex has almost 20 years experience working in large and small companies, at a variety of levels.
Alex trained as a Chemist while at the national Central Science Laboratory a department of the Food and Environment Agency in the United Kingdom. As an Analytical Chemist he developed new testing methods for the agency, specialising in GC & LC-MS.
Alex later joined Paraytec Ltd., a UV imaging detector manufacturer and University of York spin-out, and rose to Sales and Technical Manager. He was responsible for overall management of laboratory testing and managed product development and sales activities.
Alex joined Labskin in 2017 and is now Head of Operations. He is responsible for the rapid scaling of both the product and services offering (which integrates testing and secure online data) and working with clients to showcase Labskin expertise and meet client needs.
Alex also leads technical pre-sales and sales support for Labskin, interacting with customers and partners, and is a frequent speaker at events and conferences.
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan joined the Integumen PLC team as Chief Sales Officer in July 2019. Paul is responsible for Labskin operations and sales while feeding into and off plc synergies.
Formerly Head of New Business Development at 8 West Consulting (www.8west.ie) since Jan 2015, where he was responsible for new business development for their 220+ personnel operation, selling to global customers, including Anthem Inc., a US Fortune 50 health insurance company, Estee Lauder and Avon. Paul's key strength is driving sales through alliances and partnerships, with companies such as Microsoft, Dell and Sony, all of whom work with 8 West.
Earlier roles include VP Sales for LeT Systems, a Irish software company with global customers (USA, UK, Asia) in electrical utilities, where he was responsible for sales and partnerships with Siemens, SAP, Accenture, IBM and others. Earlier in his career Paul was Managing Director of Envision Marketing Consultants Ltd., a full service research and consulting practice and an approved consultancy provider under all Irish government agencies and semi-state agencies.
Paul was Sales & Marketing Manager of ERA-Maptec Ltd., Dublin, a campus technology company spun out from Trinity College Dublin. The company works in natural resource/satellite mapping technologies, serving international mineral exploration, land use and cartographic publishing markets.
Françoise Aubrit
Yulia Sandamirskaya
Yulia Sandamirskaya is a Group Leader at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI) of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. Her group “Neuromorphic Cognitive Robots” develops neuro-dynamic architectures for embodied AI. Her research interest is in memory formation, adaptive motor control, and autonomous learning in spiking and analogue neural networks. Her group works on implementing neuronal architectures in neuromorphic hardware to control robots. She has a degree in Physics from the Belarussian State University in Minsk, Belarus and Dr. rer. nat. from the Institute for Neural Computation in Bochum, Germany. She is the chair of EUCognition (the European Society for Cognitive Systems) and the coordinator of the NEUROTECH project that supports and develops the neuromorphic computing technology community in Europe.
Uri Weiser
Uri Weiser is a emeritus professor at the Electrical Engineering department of the Technion IIT. He is also active on the advisory boards of numerous startups.He earned his Ph.D in CS from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
Uri worked at Intel from 1988-2006 where he initiated and drove the definition of the first Pentium® processor, led the Intel’s MMX™ technology, co-invented the Trace Cache, co-managed Intel’s new Design Center at Austin, Texas and formed an advanced media applications research activity. Uri was appointed Intel Fellow; he is an ACM Fellow, and Fellow of the IEEE.
Prior to his career at Intel, Uri Weiser worked at the Israeli Department of Defense and later with National Semiconductor Design Center in Israel, where he led the design of the NS32532 microprocessor.
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Roland Angst
Roland Angst is the Head of the ASUS Robotics and AI Center in Singapore and Senior Director of Articial Intelligence and Robotics at ASUS in Taipei. Since November 2015 he has served as a lead software architect for ASUS Zenbo, an Android-based robot for the home, and as lead advisor for cross-functional robotics, computer vision, and machine learning teams. With the guidance of his technical expertise, ASUS is creating an inspiring new line of products and services based on cutting-edge research and technologies. Prior to joining ASUS, as a Junior Group Leader of the Vision, Geometry, and Computational Perception Group, Roland was affiliated with the Center for Visual Computing and Communication at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. From February 2013 to March 2015, he was visiting assistant professor with the Image, Video, and Multimedia Systems and the Geometric Computation groups at Stanford University. As an active member of the global computer vision community, Roland frequently contributes both as an author and reviewer to journals and prestigious international conferences, including ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, Siggraph, IJCV and PAMI. In 2012, Roland received his Ph.D in computer vision from ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. While working toward a doctorate, in 2010 he won a Google European Doctoral Fellowship in Computer Vision. In 2008, his master’s thesis has been awarded with an ETH medal and in 2007, he received his master's degree with distinction in computer science from ETH.