Tekcapital (AIM: TEK) has announced Guident, the wholly owned portfolio company focused on commercialising new IP & technologies to enhance the utility, safety, and enjoyment of autonomous vehicles and delivery drones, has appointed Professor Naphtali Rishe, Professor Hayder Radha and Dr. Marielle S. Gross to its Science Advisory Board.
Professor Rishe is the Founder and Director of the High Performance Database Research Center at Florida International University (FIU) and Head of the NSF International FIU-FAU-Dubna-Greenwich Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement. Rishe is an Eminent Chair Professor in Computer Science and has authored many books on database management, location-based data, health informatics, and high performance computing. He was awarded over US$55 million in research grants by Government and Industry, including NSF, NASA, IBM, DoI, DHS, USGS.
Hayder Radha is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Michigan State University, the Associate Chair for Research of the ECE Department, and the Director of the Wireless and Video Communications Laboratory. Professor Radha was with Philips Research, where he worked as a Principal Member of Research Staff and then as a Consulting Scientist in the Video Communications Research Department. He previously served as a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories where he worked in the areas of digital communications, image processing, and broadband multimedia.
Marielle S. Gross, MD, MBE is a Hecht-Levi Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics where she will become an affiliate faculty member as she assumes an assistant professorship at the University of Pittsburgh Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences and Bioethics & Health Law next month. She has published numerous chapters and scientific papers on ethical imperatives related to implementation of emerging technologies such as blockchain and federated learning, particularly in the healthcare and public health spaces. She has been a member of the Johns Hopkins Distinguished Teaching Society since 2017.
"We are very pleased to add Dr's Rishe, Radha & Gross to our Science Advisory Board. Their combined experience and knowledge in artificial intelligence software for autonomous vehicles and bioethics will provide valuable insight as we expand the development of our remote monitoring and control center for AV's and land-based delivery drones," said Harald Braun, Chairman and CEO of Guident.
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In addition, Guident has announced the forthcoming issuance of patent # 10,699,580 that teaches new methods to improve the safety of autonomous vehicles and land-based delivery drones.
The patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office is titled "Methods and Systems for Emergency Handoff of an Autonomous Vehicle."