Professor Sebastian Stein is the co-founder of Evtonomy, a platform using artificial intelligence (AI) to determine the most efficient way to charge electric vehicles.
Evtonomy has developed an app that learns the preferences of individual electric vehicle drivers to help them find charging points. It can also adapt to show updates such as when a charging station is out of service and provide estimated waiting times.
The app, which is yet to be launched, is part of a UKRI-funded project on citizen-centric AI systems at the University of Southampton. Evtonomy was co-founded by Dr Elnaz Shafipour, a research fellow at the University of Southampton.
The startup took part in the university’s on-campus accelerator, Future Worlds.
In this week’s Founder in Five Q&A, Stein shares tips for motivating teams, explains how flexible working arrangements can create an inclusive workforce and how to prevent burnout as both an entrepreneur and academic....