Globally, the waste industry is literally a mess. In the US alone, it is estimated that 80% of recyclable waste ends up in landfill. What can be done? View the full video interview here.

In the conversation we’ll be having with Richard Galvez,  Director of Software and Data Science at CleanRobotics, we’ll discuss how we can leverage tech advances in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Vision to address this problem at a global scale. Richard is an experienced data scientist and machine learning expert. He has pioneered applications of AI in the space sciences at NASA, completed a Moore-Sloan Postdoctoral Fellowship at the NYU Center for Data Science, and boasts 13 publications to his name.

Richard holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Syracuse University