Our Team
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Strategic Advisory Board
Henrik Christensen
Henrik I Christensen is the director of Robotics at Georgia Tech. He is the KUKA Chair of Robotics and a distinguished professor of computing. He was the founder of the European Network of Excellence in Robotics that included 192 universities. He was also the coordinator of formulation of the US Roadmap for Robotics initially released 2009 and revised 2013. He is the coordinator of the Robotics Virtual Organization that formulates the national robotics agenda, coordinates educational efforts and promotes technology transfer of research results. Dr. Christensen has published more than 300 contributions across robotics, computer vision and artificial intelligence. He collaborates with many of the major companies in the US on utilization of robot technology. Dr. Christensen is also the co-founder of 5 companies.
Raffaello D'Andrea
Raffaello D’Andrea is Professor of Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich. He is also co-founder of Kiva Systems, where he led the systems architecture, robot design, robot navigation and coordination, and control algorithms efforts. His contributions to the development of intelligent control algorithms revolutionized the annual RoboCup competition – the premier robotics and artificial intelligence competition, which his team won 4 times under his leadership - and laid the foundation for modern, high performance multi-robot control. Raffaello is also an internationally-exhibited new media artist, best known for the Robotic Chair and Flight Assembled Architecture. Other creations and projects include the Flying Machine Arena, the Distributed Flight Array, and RoboEarth.
Louis Gave
After receiving his bachelor's degree from Duke University and studying Mandarin at Nanjing University, Louis joined the French Army where he served as a second lieutenant in a mountain infantry battalion. After a couple of years, Louis left the army and joined Paribas where he worked as a financial analyst first in Paris, then in Hong Kong.
Louis left Paribas in 1999 to launch Gavekal Research with Charles Gave and Anatole Kaletsky in London. In 2002, Louis left the London office and returned to Hong Kong; the idea at the time was that Asia was set to become an ever more important factor in global growth and that, consequently, Gavekal needed to offer its clients more information, and more ideas, relating to Asia. Since then, Louis has been living in Hong Kong from where he oversees Gavekal’s money management business. Nonetheless, Louis contributes episodically to the research.
In the past decade, Louis has written five books, including his latest Too Different For Comfort, published in October 2013.
Wyatt Newman
Wyatt Newman’s research is in the areas of mechatronics, robotics and computational intelligence, in which he has 12 patents and over 130 technical publications. He received the S.B. degree from Harvard College in Engineering Science, the S.M. degree in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T. in thermal and fluid sciences, the M.S.E.E. degree from Columbia University in control theory and network theory, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T. in design and control.
Dr. Newman spent 8 years in industrial research at Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, NY, engaged in electromechanical design and control. He joined Case in 1988, and in 1992 he was named an NSF Young Investigator in robotics, and subsequently was named a Herbold Fellow, a Tau Beta Pi “distinguished engineer”, a Woody-Flowers FIRST-robotics mentor awardee, and a CWRU awardee for teaching and for leadership. In 2007, he led “Team Case” in the DARPA Urban Challenge, involving autonomous vehicles operating among live and robotic traffic.
In addition to visiting appointments at Sandia Labs, NASA, and Princeton, he has held international appointments at Philips (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at U. Edinburgh, and The Hung Hing Ying Distinguished Visiting Professor at U. of Hong Kong. Prof. Newman is currently leading HKU’s team in the DARPA Robotics Challenge, involving humanoid robots for disaster response.
Scott Davis
Scott Davis is a Managing Director and Head of Global Industrials Equity Research coverage, focusing on the Multi-Industry and Electrical Equipment sector at Barclays Capital, based in New York.
Mr. Davis joined Barclays Capital in 2011 from Morgan Stanley where he spent the prior 15 years covering various sectors within the Industrials vertical, including Chemicals, Paper & Packaging and Multi-Industry. Scott has been top ranked by Institutional Investor in Packaging from 2001-2002 and in Multi-Industry since 2004 with a current #1 ranking. Prior to working at Morgan Stanley, he was at Merrill Lynch and Barra Rogers Casey.
Morten Paulsen
Morten Paulsen is the Head of Research and a Managing Director at CLSA Japan. He has covered the Japanese robotics and machinery industry as a Tokyo based equity analyst since 1999. Mr. Paulsen was among the first financial analysts to highlight the Asian Automation trend as an underlying driver for the sector one decade ago, and he has built strong relationships with automation equipment suppliers and system integrators across Asia.
Mr. Paulsen joined CLSA Japan from WestLB Securities Pacific in 2003 and he has received numerous rewards for his research. He was among others ranked number one in his field by AsiaMoney every year from 2007 to 2013 (the Capital Goods segment was discontinued in 2014), and he was also ranked by Starmine as one of Japan’s top 10 stock pickers in 2013.
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