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Siavash Alamouti is executive chairman
of the board at mimik Technology, Inc.
He has been awarded the prestigious 2022
Marconi Prize in recognition of his contribution
to global wireless device accessibility.
The outspoken innovator, who is most
well known as the inventor of the Alamouti
Code, adopted in almost all wireless standards
globally and included in billions of
wireless devices, has dedicated his career to developing and promoting
technologies that enhance people's lives. He has received
more than 20,000 citations for his scientific work and has received
multiple industry awards. Alamouti's 1998 paper in the IEEE Journal
on Selected Areas in Communications was selected by the IEEE
Communication Society for publication in " The Best of the Best:
Fifty Years of Communications and Networking Research. " Since
2014, he has been focused on edge cloud computing, cloud decentralization,
and open internet.
Mark Schneider is a Global Enterprise
Success Manager with Bentley Systems
where he is responsible for driving digital
advancement for infrastructure and
digital twins for large global organizations.
Schneider is a pioneer in computer engineering
design and digital workfl ows. He
has over 40 years of knowledge and experience
in civil engineering and computerenabled
engineering. He has over 20 years of experience in civil
engineering, starting with computer-aided 3D design and modeling
in 1982 on mainframe systems. In 1997, Schneider joined a
Bentley System integrator, then transitioned to Bentley Systems
in 2001. At Bentley Systems, Schneider has gained experience
with global technical leadership for integrated infrastructure lifecycle
solutions from design applications to digital twins for construction
and operations in a common data environment.
David Krum is an assistant professor of
Computer Science at the California State
University, Los Angeles. His research and
teaching activities include human-computer
interaction, virtual/augmented reality,
and 3D interaction. At Cal State LA,
he leads the Experience Lab and co-directs
INART, the Institute for Interactive Arts,
Research, and Technology.
From 2008-2020, he was a lead researcher in the Mixed Reality
Lab at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. He contributed
to the development of low-cost virtual reality displays and
researched new techniques and technologies for presenting immersive
experiences.
Krum earned a BS in Engineering and Applied Science from
Caltech, an MS in Computer Science from University of Alabama
in Huntsville, and a PhD in Computer Science at Georgia Tech.
Hiroshi Ishiguro is currently a professor
with the Department of Systems Innovation,
Graduate School of Engineering Science, at
Osaka University and visiting director of Hiroshi
Ishiguro Laboratories at the Advanced
Telecommunications Research Institute
(ATR). He is also Distinguished Professor of
Osaka University and one of six ATR fellows.
His research interests are interactive robotics,
avatar technology, and android science. He developed many interactive
humanoid and android robots, such as Robovie, Repliee, Geminoid,
Telenoid, Elfoid, CommU, ERICA, and Ibuki. These robots
have been reported by media such as the Discovery Channel, NHK,
and BBC. He won the Osaka Cultural Award in 2011; received
the Prize for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in 2015; was
awarded the Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge
Award in Dubai in 2015; the Tateisi Award in 2020; and received
an honorary doctorate from Aarhus University in 2021.
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