Advisory Board
Stephanus C.A. Peters
After studying mathematics and physics at the University of Amsterdam and a PhD in elementary particle physics he made a new step in designing and implementing new technology like electronic payment systems and artificial intelligence in the financial sector. This resulted in a professorship at the Free University of Amsterdam, a visiting researcher position at the Henley Business School, and a visiting professor position at the Beijing Institute of Technology. Next to this, he started companies in the Netherlands and the Philippines directed to the design and implementation of decentralized personal information systems. To apply this knowledge he joined a company in the social domain as director resulting in a new matching model, which is now being developed in a new company. Currently, he is teaching at the Hague University of Applied Sciences in the fields of risk management, cybersecurity, blockchain, and GDPR.
Michael (Mike) F. Griffin
Professor Michael F. Griffin has 35 years of experience in R&D, product development, and engineering management; and is an elevator industry expert. He holds a PhD from the University of Florida in High-Speed Computer Architecture and Digital Signal Processing and is a Life member of IEEE. Professor Griffin worked for the United Technologies Research Center, focused on jet engine controls, radar/sonar signal processing, and modeling. He was a visiting researcher at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Sugeno Labs, working on fuzzy waypoint control of a UAV, namely helicopters. His work has led to establishing stability bounds for a certain class of fuzzy controllers using LMIs. In the last 29 years, he has worked for the Otis elevator company as a program manager and engineering director to bring new products to the market, namely in Asia. He led the system team responsible for developing the high-speed and high-rise elevator systems for Otis that are currently used in most of the high-rise buildings in the world, such as Burj Khalifa. In 1998 Otis’ first global engineering center was established in Tianjin, China by Professor Griffin to capture part of the growing Chinese market for elevators/escalators. He continued to stay in China to establish another global component engineering center in Shanghai and led the team to develop a new controller for the Chinese market. Since then, he’s had other roles in China such as manufacturing director, quality director, and crisis manager. He was also managing director for Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. His latest interests are in quantum computing.
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