The 7th CMU Summit Event Brochure(1)
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Sam Wang<br />
President, NewDo Venture<br />
Sam is identified as Young Leaders of the year by Harvard<br />
University, 30 under 30 by AACYF. NewDo Venture was<br />
founded in July, 2015 by Sam and five other partners. Until<br />
July 2017, NewDo has attracted more than 60 partners and<br />
more than 40 top tier advisors and has invested in 50+ startup companies and the<br />
rate of return on book has exceed two hundred percent.<br />
Maxim Likhachev<br />
Research Associate Professor, Robotics Institute, <strong>CMU</strong><br />
Co-founder, RobotWits<br />
Dr. Likhachev’s general research interests lie in Artificial<br />
Intelligence and Robotics. More specifically, his group studies<br />
such questions as high-dimensional planning in real-time,<br />
planning that “learns how to plan” based on experience, automatic generation of<br />
compact representation of planning problems, high-dimensional planning under<br />
uncertainty in real-time and others.<br />
Lorenzo Soletti<br />
President and CEO, Renerva, LLC<br />
In 2009 Lorenzo co-founded Neograft Technologies, a Pitt<br />
technology-based medical device company developing<br />
a Class III implantable cardiac device, and led the R&D for<br />
the company until the end of 2014. In 2015 Lorenzo joined<br />
the Pitt Innovation Institute as Entrepreneur in Residence, where he is helping<br />
commercializing high-potential technologies and developing internal processes<br />
for optimizing deal flow. More recently in 2015 Lorenzo co-founded Venndoo, a<br />
mobile technology company developing an analytic platform to facilitate the<br />
mobilization of used goods, where is currently President and CEO.<br />
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