Karim Shaban has built perception systems and large-scale data pipelines for autonomy, after cutting his teeth on projects ranging from humanoid robots and indoor reconstruction to facial reenactment and self-driving racing cars (starting with his Master’s in Munich). Based in London, he now leads Perception at Humanoid, coming from six years in self-driving cars spanning startups and major teams including Lyft’s autonomous division and Toyota.
Diogo has a decade of experience in robotic manipulators and holds a PhD in Computer Science focused on dual-arm manipulation systems. Most recently, he spent five years at Ocado Technology developing robotic packing systems, taking a new product from research prototype to production.
With 14 years as a software engineer, architect, and lead, Artem moved from full-stack and JVM work at Oracle into a decade of data engineering, scaling Europe’s largest social platforms and building global data platforms. His track record spans 100s of petabytes across data lake/DWH architectures and streaming pipelines processing millions of events per second across ads, retail media, e-commerce, social, and banking.
A systems engineer spanning robotics, distributed storage, networking, and low-latency systems, Cody most recently worked at Cloudflare on exabyte-scale object storage. Cody is drawn to solving hard problems under real-world constraints and building systems that stay fast and reliable at scale.
With 10 years in robotics, Soheil started by developing a lower-limb exoskeleton during their PhD and helping spin it into a startup, then spent six years at Genesis Robotics designing actuators and gearbox technologies for collaborative robot arms. Most recently, he was a mechanical team lead at Sanctuary AI for two years, contributing to the Phoenix robot’s torso and hand.
Over the past 10 years, Giulio has led R&D across consumer and medical applications, working on mobile manipulators, legged robots, and exoskeletons, and earning a PhD on the design and control of five-finger robotic hands. One of the first employees at Humanoid, he now heads Controls, coming from a Platform Team Lead role at Dyson Robotics Research where he developed a new household-robot form factor.
Ekaterina joined Humanoid as Systems Engineering Lead, owning requirements management, and ensuring clear decomposition and delivery to development teams. With a background in software and EV system development focused on efficiency, safety, and reliability, she’s now bringing that rigor into robotics —where innovation meets human-like intelligence.
Sergey is an engineering leader across automotive, IT, and telecom, focused on complex systems integration and building end-to-end hardware–software platforms from EV AD/ADAS to cloud-connected architectures. He previously led vehicle software development, integration, and testing at Arrival and worked at SODA.auto on software-defined vehicle architecture, HiL/ViL, simulation, and AI features—now bringing that to robotics.
With 17 years in robotics spanning bio-inspired systems, advanced actuators, and humanoids, Hessam most recently served as Director of R&D Programs at Sanctuary AI, leading development of the Phoenix humanoid robots. Holding a Master’s in Aviation Technology, he now leads the Locomanipulation Platform Team in Vancouver.
Bringing 22 years in electrical engineering and 15 years in robotics, Devin led prototype-robot teams at Boston Dynamics since 2009 and headed the electrical design for the latest electric Atlas. Based in Boston, he’s focused on building high-performance teams and delivering next-gen humanoid prototypes.
