Dr Claire Burke
After completing a PhD in astrophysics, Dr Claire Burke turned her attention back to Earth to help solve the biggest challenges society has ever faced – climate change. She has more than a decade of interdisciplinary experience, bringing expertise from physics, computer sciences and natural sciences together to solve problems previously considered impossible.
Claire has worked at the Met Office and multiple universities, and has collaborated with large NGOs including the WWF and the Institute of Physics. Her work and ability to communicate science to a non-specialist audience has been recognised with awards from the IoP, the British Science Association and the UK Government.
Claire now leads the science team at Climate X where she develops quantitative climate risk solutions, based in robust science, which are geared specifically towards the finance sector.
Ritu Goel
Ritu Goel is Director of Product Management at Adobe, where she has been driving strategy for AI/ML platform since its early days with the vision of democratizing AI/ML development at Adobe. Prior to this, Ritu has spent more than a decade leading product strategy and execution of various enterprise to consumer products and platforms at eBay, Macys.com and Infosys. Ritu has a bachelor of engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
Shubho Sengupta
Shubho Sengupta is a Software Engineer at Meta, where he designs Meta’s Research Infra for AI training. He started working on AI in 2014, on speech related AI models like DeepSpeech and DeepVoice. Before that he pioneered many of the foundational algorithms in general purpose programming in GPUs, which has won Test of Time award. These days, he also works at the intersection of cryptography and computation, specifically in bi-partite and multi-partite matching algorithms.
Adrien Firmenich
Daniel Teper
Michael Nehil
Huang Zhu
