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I am software engineer and expert in robotics. My research line is focused on software architectures, robotic easier programming techniques and dual-arm robot coordination.

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Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation
San Sebastián (Spain)
+34 610 72 05 32
hector.herrero@tecnalia.com

Personal
Age: 33
Mother tongue: Spanish
Other languages: English, Basque

Work Experience
Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation

Professional Education
University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Master Degree in Control, Automation and Robotics
PhD in Robotics

“My approach to TraceBot”
Enthusiasm for robotics, electronics and mechanics
I want to take a step forward in modeling human behavior in the form of robot skills
Being able to incorporate into the programming of a robotic application certain mechanisms that a human performs unconsciously when performing a task, can reduce the complexity and the necessary time to automate complex operations

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I am control engineer and expert in robotics. My research line is robot control.

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Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation
San Sebastián (Spain)
+34 943 105 101 (international calls)
asier.fernandez@tecnalia.com

Personal
Age: 42
Mother tongue: Basque, Spanish
Other languages: English

Work Experience
Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation

Professional Education
University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Control, Automation and Robotics Engineering

“My approach to TraceBot”
Enthusiasm for mechatronics
Make easier lab automation processes

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I'm a robotics engineer. My work focuses on easing the definition of novel sensor based manipulation oriented controllers.

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Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation
San Sebastián (Spain)
+34 943 105 101 (international calls)
miguel.prada@tecnalia.com

Personal
Age: 42
Mother tongue: Basque, Spanish
Other languages: English, un peu de français

Work Experience
Institite of Industrial and Control Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona
Tecnalia, San Sebastian

Professional Education
Industrial Engineering, UPC
Masters in Automatic Control and Robotics, UPC

“My approach to TraceBot”
Applying control techniques to robustify applications in spite of challenges in perception and strict tolerances. Facilitating controller management from high level application layer.

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“I am a researcher focused on machine learning applied to robotics in human-robot collaboration scenarios.”

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Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Derio (Spain)
+34 943 105 101 (international calls)
irati.rasines@tecnalia.com

Personal
Age: 36
Mother tongue: Spanish, Basque
Other languages: English

Work Experience
Web programmer at Alianzo S.L
Research Fellowship (Iñaki Goenaga)
Researcher at Tecnalia.

Professional Education
Bachelor in Physics Science at the University of the Basque Country
Master's Degree in Control Engineering, Automation and Robotics
Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering
ONGOING: PhD on Automatic Robot Learning based on Human Demonstrations

“My approach to TraceBot”
Enthusiasm for robot learning approaches applied to real world scenarios.

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“I am a mechanical engineer and expert in force feedback robotics. I supervised or participated to the development of a dozen haptic interfaces and hand exoskeletons and to their integration in state of the art multimodal VR platforms with applications in CAD, telesurgery, skills training, cultural heritage, digital arts and entertainment. More recently, I was involved in the development of several collaborative robots. Along with my involment in robotics, I am since 2015 the Scientific Officer of the Department of Ambiant Intelligence and Interactive Sytems.”

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CEA LETI, Grenoble (France)
+33 4 38 78 09 07
Saifeddine.ALOUI@cea.fr

Personal
Age: 35
Mother tongue: French/Arabic
Other languages: English

Work Experience
Research engineer in CEA Grenoble

Professional Education
PHD in automation and signal processing from University of Grenoble
Engineering degree from Telecom Paristech

“My approach to TraceBot”
My contribution aims at making TraceBOT aware of the object it manipulates through a combination of tactile sensing and artificial intelligence. Pushing towards human like robotic dexterous manipulation of objects.

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“I am a research engineer focused on the control of robotic systems.”

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CEA List, Saclay (France)
+33 1 69 08 54 21
clemence.dubois@cea.fr

Personal
Age: 27
Mother tongue: French
Other languages: English

Work Experience
CEA List, Interactive Robotics Unit (Saclay, FRANCE)

Professional Education
Engineering degree in control and automation, IMT Atlantique (Nantes, FRANCE)
Master of Science in electrical engineering, Polytechnique Montréal (Québec, CANADA)

“My approach to TraceBot”
My contribution holds in making the future TraceBot grippers move and communicate with the rest of the system.

Profile
“I am a mechanical engineer and expert in force feedback robotics. I supervised or participated to the development of a dozen haptic interfaces and hand exoskeletons and to their integration in state of the art multimodal VR platforms with applications in CAD, telesurgery, skills training, cultural heritage, digital arts and entertainment. More recently, I was involved in the development of several collaborative robots. Along with my involment in robotics, I am since 2015 the Scientific Officer of the Department of Ambiant Intelligence and Interactive Sytems.”

Contact
CEA LIST Palaiseau (France)
+33 1 69 08 07 86
florian.gosselin@cea.fr

Personal
Age: 49
Mother tongue: French
Other languages: English, German

Work Experience
CEA LIST - Scientific officer
CEA LIST - Research engineer and project manager
Cybernétix (during my PhD) - Research engineer
Teuchos (on temporary assignment at Aérospatiale) - Consulting engineer
GIAT Industries (now Nexter) - Military Service as Scientist

Professional Education
Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering, University of Nantes
Engineering Degree in Robotics, Ecole Centrale de Nantes
Postgraduate in Control Engineering & Applied Informatics, University of Nantes
PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of Poitiers

“My approach to TraceBot”
Expertise in robotic-oriented task analysis.
Expertise in mechatronics design

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“I am a research engineer, focused on the integration of innovative sensing technologies.”

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CEA GRENOBLE (FRANCE)
+33 438 786 265
franck.vial@cea.fr

Personal
Age: 45
Mother tongue: French
Other languages: English

Work Experience
Ultimed Technologies,
French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) -  Technical Research for Industry (CEA Tech)

Professional Education
Engineering degree in Electronics and Signal Processing from CPE Lyon

“My approach to TraceBot”
“My aim is to make TraceBot robot sensitive to touch, in order to enhance its cognitive skills toward human-like dexterous manipulations.”

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Researcher PhD Candidate – Machine Learning and Computer Vision

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Vienna University of Technology
Wien (Austria)
+4368864395636
Gupta@acin.tuwien.ac.at

Personal
Age: 26
Mother tongue: Marathi
Other languages:   English, Hindi

Work Experience
Fizyr – Delft, Netherlands
Computer Vision engineer

Computer Vision Lab – ETH Zürich
Masters Thesis Student

ABB – Baden-Dättwil
Machine learning research intern

Flanders Make – Leuven, Belgium
Research Intern

Professional Education

Università della Svizzera Italiana
Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence

ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) – Exchange Year
Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence

Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering
Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and
Telecommunications Engineering

“My approach to TraceBot”
To focus on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision aspects of the project. Gain knowledge of state-of-art methods, find their shortcomings, and improve them. Which will result in better results for TraceBot.

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“I am a PhD researcher in cognitive robot perception and expert in robotics. I focus on combining massive explicit background knowledge, Machine Learning and Mental Simulation to design and implement human-like flexible and robust robot perception systems”.

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Am Fallturm 1
Bremen (Germany)
+4917635289878
fkenghag@uni-bremen.de

Personal
Age: 31
Mother tongue: French, Yemba
Other languages: English, German

Work Experience
Tutor at University of Douala
Intern at Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Teacher, Tutor, Research Assistant and Software Developer at Institute for  Artificial Intelligence

Professional Education
University of Bremen
Master Degree in Artificial Intelligence
PhD Candidate in Cognitive Robot Perception

“My approach to TraceBot”
“Giving the commitment of TraceBot to deal with failure-sensitive realtime applications such as sterility testing of medical products, my aim is to ensure a mechanism that allows the robot to understand what he sees and does. In this way, the robot will be able to provide an audit trail of the test it carries out, reasons about it  and replan the test if necessary adequately. Since physical reasoning is of great importance and very challenging in TraceBot, I leverage photo-realistic and physics-faithful mental simulations from a digital twin of the process.”

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TU Wien – Vienna (Austria)
+33 6 33 55 03 35
weibel@acin.tuwien.ac.at

Personal
Age: 28
Mother tongue: French
Other languages: English

Work Experience
Android developer at Parrot – Paris (2014)
Research assistant at A*Start – Singapore (2015)
Project assistant at TU Wien - Vienna (Current)

Professional Education
Master Degree from CentraleSupélec – France (2015)
MSc in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology – United States (2016)
Currently pursuing a PhD at the TU Wien

“My approach to TraceBot”
My focus with TraceBot is to leverage the invisible and the missing information from our data of transparent object to provide new manipulation abilities to robots.

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Software developer with a passion for robotics and artificial intelligence

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Runcorn / UK
+44 (0) 1928 571797 (Ext. 107)
william.speed@astechprojects.co.uk

Personal
Age: 37
Mother tongue: English

Work Experience
Head of Product Development at Astech Projects Ltd (16 years), working in robotics and automation for Laboratory Automation and Manufacturing Automation, including pharmaceutical, medical device, consumer healthcare, chemical, life sciences, aerospace and automotive.
Innovation leader at Astech for software and control systems, including software development, data management, scheduler development, SiLA 2 integration, robotics and vision systems.

Professional Education
BSc in Computer Science, University of Chester

“My approach to TraceBot”
Focus on bringing years of valuable experience of working with highly-regulated industries, with the view to scale the TraceBot developed technologies to a cobot platform that will be used by the industry leaders of the future.

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Software developer with a passion for robotics and artificial intelligence

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Runcorn / UK
+44 (0) 1928 571797 (Ext. 107)
jordan.bushnell@astechprojects.co.uk

Personal
Age: 23
Mother Tongue: English
Other languages: German (intermediate)

Work Experience
Software Engineer at Tudutu-Warrington
Products Software Developer at Astech-Runcorn (current)

Professional Education
BSc in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence, University of Leeds

“My approach to TraceBot”
Focus on understanding and testing each part of the system, learning as much as possible along the way!

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Software developer with a passion for robotics and artificial intelligence

Contact details
Runcorn / UK
+44 (0) 1928 571797 (Ext. 107)
nirmal.raveendran@astechprojects.co.uk

Personal
Age: 26
Mother Tongue: Malayalam (lndian Language)
Other Languages: English, Tamil, Hindi

Work Experience
Product Software Developer at Astech Projects Ltd, working mainly on development and implementation of SiLA2 (Standardization in Lab Automation) servers for robotics and automation in pharmaceutical, industrial and laboratory sectors.

Professional Education
Robotics and Automation, University of Salford

“My approach to TraceBot”
Excitement indeveloping a unique and self-sustaining vision based, traceability feature that helps in enhancing the repeatability and validation of a robotic system for any automated purpose.