19 - 21 November 2024 | Hefei, China
AutoSens China
2024
Speakers
A leading line-up of distinguished influencers and specialists at the forefront of ADAS and
autonomous vehicle technology will join us in 2024
FEATURED SPEAKER
FEATURED SPEAKER
Dr Qing Rao
Dr Qing Rao
Qing is responsible for global system solutions at Momenta. With extensive experience collaborating with automotive OEMs worldwide, he has played a key role in initiating the deployment of L2+/L2++ solutions across more than 50 carline projects. Qing is committed to delivering cost-efficient solutions for the automotive industry while ensuring an exceptional user experience.
FEATURED SPEAKER
FEATURED SPEAKER
Haowei (Jeffrey) Wang
Haowei (Jeffrey) Wang
Dr. Haowei Wang has more than 20 years of related working experience. He got his PhD. degree from University of Erlangen-Nuernberg. Dr. Wang started his career working in software and systems architecture design for the Automotive industry, focusing on software and system architecture design. He has led more than 20 industrial and scientific research projects. Before joining JOYNEXT, Dr. Wang worked in many MNCs like Continental, Aptiv, IBM and Huawei. He has strong experience in automotive SW design, EE architecture, automated driving system, safety & security, positioning & communication system, sensors & sensor fusion. In JOYNEXT/Joyson, Dr. Wang is leading the R&D team of ADAS, acting as head of AD product line.
FEATURED SPEAKER
FEATURED SPEAKER
Louis Sun
Louis Sun
Louis (Luyi) Sun is the VP of Software R&D at Ambarella Shanghai. Since 2007, he has been leading a team to develop software for SoC platform, video security and consumer IP cameras, automotive electronics including L2++ DC, Driving+Parking, ADAS, DMS and other related products, participating in the company’s image and video technology and deep learning chip design and research, as well as domestic and international customer technical support.
Mr Sun received his bachelor’s degree in Automation from Tsinghua University and his master’s degree in Software Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Prior to joining Ambarella, he worked at LSI Logic, Intel and other semiconductor companies in embedded software and video technology, with 25 years of experience.
FEATURED SPEAKER
FEATURED SPEAKER
Mark Zellerhoff
Mark Zellerhoff
A passionate automotive engineer with proven knowledge in optical sensor systems, detection functions and customer functions. Working on optimizing the performance of sensors and ADAS, even in harsh environmental conditions, helping consumers gain confidence in their vehicle´s capabilities and getting them safely to their destination. Looking forward to meeting exciting people and love to help tackle the upcoming challenges of tomorrow.
FEATURED SPEAKER
FEATURED SPEAKER
Shanning Zhang
Shanning Zhang
Shanning Zhang is the Tire Insights and Business Development Manager at Goodyear Asia Pacific, where she leads a team focused on developing tire intelligence and mobility solutions.
With extensive experience in both business and technical fields within the automotive industry, Shanning has been dedicated to the development and commercialization of new technologies. Before joining Goodyear, she held positions at GEFIT, BOSCH Automotive, and the Bekaert Technology Center.
Shanning holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Nanjing University and master’s degrees in Materials Engineering from both the Université Catholique de Louvain and Grenoble INP. She had also obtained the licensee to practice law in China.
FEATURED SPEAKER
FEATURED SPEAKER
Torsten Wendler
Torsten Wendler
Leading projects and people across the automotive world of driver assistance for more than 15 years, Torsten holds a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Technische Universität Braunschweig. He began work for Volkswagen AG in 2015 and relocated to China to join VW AnHui in 2019.
Torsten Wendler
Head of Driving and ADAS / AD
Torsten Wendler
Leading projects and people across the automotive world of driver assistance for more than 15 years, Torsten holds a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Technische Universität Braunschweig. He began work for Volkswagen AG in 2015 and relocated to China to join VW AnHui in 2019.
Mark Zellerhoff
Manager ADAS / AD
Mark Zellerhoff
A passionate automotive engineer with proven knowledge in optical sensor systems, detection functions and customer functions. Working on optimizing the performance of sensors and ADAS, even in harsh environmental conditions, helping consumers gain confidence in their vehicle´s capabilities and getting them safely to their destination. Looking forward to meeting exciting people and love to help tackle the upcoming challenges of tomorrow.
Dr Qing Rao
Senior Director of System Solutions
Dr Qing Rao
Qing is responsible for global system solutions at Momenta. With extensive experience collaborating with automotive OEMs worldwide, he has played a key role in initiating the deployment of L2+/L2++ solutions across more than 50 carline projects. Qing is committed to delivering cost-efficient solutions for the automotive industry while ensuring an exceptional user experience.
Juergen Hoellisch
CEO/Founder
Juergen Hoellisch
Juergen has an extensive success record in Application, Sales, Product Definition, Business Management and Product Marketing including set-up and management of offices around the world. He is a Strategic Advisor and Executive Management Consultant to international OEM, Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers with special focus in Asia. He has a strategic Focus on Sensors technology (Radar, Ultrasonic, Camera and Lidar) and Sensor Fusion technology (Domain Controllers) for Autonomous Drive Level 2 to Level 5. Juergen’s key Application focus is: Driver Assistance Systems (Ultra Sonic Park Assist, Radar, Camera Systems), Infotainment, Autonomous Valet Parking, Cyber Security.
Haowei (Jeffrey) Wang
President of JOYSON Intelligent Automotive Research Centre, Global Head of ADAS
Haowei (Jeffrey) Wang
Dr. Haowei Wang has more than 20 years of related working experience. He got his PhD. degree from University of Erlangen-Nuernberg. Dr. Wang started his career working in software and systems architecture design for the Automotive industry, focusing on software and system architecture design. He has led more than 20 industrial and scientific research projects. Before joining JOYNEXT, Dr. Wang worked in many MNCs like Continental, Aptiv, IBM and Huawei. He has strong experience in automotive SW design, EE architecture, automated driving system, safety & security, positioning & communication system, sensors & sensor fusion. In JOYNEXT/Joyson, Dr. Wang is leading the R&D team of ADAS, acting as head of AD product line.
Andreas Herzig
Partner, Global Lead Automotive Risk Advisory
Andreas Herzig
Andreas leads Deloitte’s Risk Advisory (RA) services for Automotive globally. He defines and coordinates Deloitte’s strategy, services and delivery capacities for Automotive on a global level for RA.
He develops Deloitte’s Automotive team to help clients in the Automotive supply chain to detect and mitigate their highest risks in technology and regulation. His focus is on the technological transformation of OEMs as well as suppliers.
Andreas has worked for Deloitte for 27 years. He teaches at the University of Karlsruhe (KIT) in Governance, Risk and Compliance for Engineers and Computer Scientists for the last 5 years.
Andreas is responsible for Deloitte’s premium membership in AUTOSAR and coordinates capacity and resources with focus on adaptive.
Louis Sun
VP of Software R&D
Louis Sun
Louis (Luyi) Sun is the VP of Software R&D at Ambarella Shanghai. Since 2007, he has been leading a team to develop software for SoC platform, video security and consumer IP cameras, automotive electronics including L2++ DC, Driving+Parking, ADAS, DMS and other related products, participating in the company’s image and video technology and deep learning chip design and research, as well as domestic and international customer technical support.
Mr Sun received his bachelor’s degree in Automation from Tsinghua University and his master’s degree in Software Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Prior to joining Ambarella, he worked at LSI Logic, Intel and other semiconductor companies in embedded software and video technology, with 25 years of experience.
Wade Appelman
Chief Business Officer
Wade Appelman
Wade Appelman has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. In 2000, they began their career at Vitesse Semiconductor as the Vice President of Marketing. Wade then moved to Zagros Networks in 2002 as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing, where they were responsible for creating the company’s positioning and securing the first company wins.
In 2004, they held the role of Business Development at Pannaway Technologies, where they were responsible for developing complimentary partnerships. Wade then held the role of Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Stargen, which was acquired by Dolphin Interconnect. In 2007, they joined Lightstorm Networks as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing and the General Manager of US operations. The company was acquired by Broadcom in March 2009. After that, they became the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Harvest Automation Inc., where they were part of the founding team and responsible for customer development activities.
In 2018, they joined ON Semiconductor as the Vice President of the SensL Division and had P&L responsibility for the SensL/Depth Sensing Division. In 2021, they became President and COO of ACEINNA, Inc., a leading MEMS based sensing solutions company. Wade is currently the Chief Business Officer at Owl Autonomous Imaging.
Eugene Wang
GM - Global Automotive
Eugene Wang
Eugene Wang has more than 10 years of semiconductor experience from Silicon Valley. He has been responsible for product line management and global business development in both F500 and unicorn startup . He has profound insight into the semiconductor ecosystem. Eugene Wang is now responsible for global business and product strategy for SemiDrive.
Yaniv Avital
Vice President and the Radar General Manager
Yaniv Avital
Yaniv Avital is a Mobileye Vice President and the Radar General Manager.
Yaniv has an experience of over 25 years in RF systems , Cellular, GNSS and Radar.
Yaniv founded the Radar organization within Intel, is leading it since, and has moved it to Mobileye in 2022.
The organization was set to develop the best performing Radar, with a vision of enabling Autonomous vehicles by Best Sensing the world in 4D, allowing driving by Radar.
Before leading the Radar, Yaniv led Intel GNSS and was a Senior Director of Intel.
The GNSS organization made an amazing achievement becoming the GNSS/Location Solution of over 200Milion iPhones.
Before leading the GNSS of Intel, Yaniv was the GNSS PMO, leading Intel 1st GNSS solution and over 10 different projects using intel GNSS solution, delivering it to entry phones and modules.
Yaniv Joined Intel from Comsys communication and Signal Processing. Comsys designed CoMAX, a solution for WiMAX&2G. Yaniv was the VLSI Chief Architect and later the Program Manager of Comsys flagship product, CoMAX.
Yaniv was a mentor in Intel Start Ups Accelerator, Intel Ignite, where he mentored few of the brightest founders of the most promising Startups in Israel.
Yaniv holds a BA in Computer Science from the Open University and MBA from studying in the Executive MBA program in the Tel Aviv University.
Andreas Lauringer
CEO
Andreas Lauringer
Born in 1980, Austria, studied mechanical engineering and economics on the TU Graz and University of Linköping (degree). Started working in the automotive industry at Continental in Berlin 2007, building up a prototype shop for high voltage Lithium-Ion Batteries, followed by roles in Purchasing and Launch Management.
Moving back to Austria the major step was global program management at Magna, responsible for the eDrive platform development, vehicle integration and acquisition programs for various OEMs. Part of the team that established the Magna JV with Hasco in Shanghai.
Launched Kontrol in 2017, building an end to end complience platform for products with the focus on the automotive industry.
Bill Russo
Founder & CEO
Bill Russo
Bill Russo is the Founder and CEO of Automobility Ltd, a strategy and investment advisory firm that helps its clients to build and profit from the future of mobility. He is a globally recognized automotive and mobility expert with nearly four decades of experience including 15+ years as an automotive executive, and has lived in China since 2004.
Bill is a frequent guest on Bloomberg TV, CNBC, BBC and CGTN and contributes regularly to the major news media outlets on developments in the China automotive industry. Bill co-authored the book “Selling to China: Stories of Success, Failure and Constant Change” [2023], and wrote the chapter titled “China’s Auto Industry: The Race to a Sustainable Future”.
Bill currently serves as the Chairman of the Automotive Committee at the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.
Emir Causevic
CEO
Emir Causevic
Emir Causevic holds a master’s degree in Computer Engineering from TU Vienna. He began his career as a software developer and later a software architect at Thales Austria. At TTTech Auto, he managed autonomous driving projects with companies like Samsung and led the rollout of a software platform used by brands like VW and Audi. Building on his extensive automotive experience, he founded Sleeve to transform the way development infrastructure is accessed in the industry.
Uwe Artmann
CTO
Uwe Artmann
Uwe Artmann studied photo technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne following an apprenticeship as a photographer and finished with the German ‘Diploma Engineer’. He is now the CTO at Image Engineering, an independent test lab for imaging devices and manufacturer of all kinds of test equipment for these devices. His special interest is the influence of noise reduction on image quality and MTF measurement in general.
Jason Zhang
Manager of Ultrasonic Products
Jason Zhang
Focusing on development of ultrasonic based products for more than 10 years. Jason has been responsible for the success of many projects with multiple major global OEMs. He’s in charge of development of diverse automotive electronics products ranging from conventional to cutting-edge application utilizing ultrasonic detection
Dr Ing Wogong Zhang
Managing Director
Riccardo Groppo
CTO and Co-Founder
Riccardo Groppo
Riccardo Groppo has a long-lasting experience in the automotive domain. He worked at FIAT Research Centre for almost 25 yrs, being the Head of Automotive Electronics Dept. He has been involved in several successful technological transfer (e.g. Common Rail, MultiAir) and has promoted the development of a family of intelligent smart drivers in cooperation with BOSCH and Freescale Semiconductors. He owns 33 patents. He is Chairman of Automotive Working Group and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors within EPoSS (European Platform on Smart Systems Integration). He is the CTO and founder of Sleep Advice Technologies, an innovative start-up in Turin (Italy)
JH Park
CEO and Founder
JH Park
Jongho Park was born in 1968 in Busan, Republic of Korea. He graduated from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and has been working on various innovative technology investment projects for over 20 years. He is currently the CEO and founder of RVS Lab. Co., Ltd. He has successfully commercialized a micro drone detection radar system based on advanced RF and radar technology in Korea. Recently, he is in charge of developing investment projects for radar sensors (ARBAS) for autonomous vehicles/drones and establishing global sales strategies.
Young-Jun Yoo
Vice President
Young-Jun Yoo
Young-Jun Yoo is the Vice President for Nextchip in Korea with 16 years’ experience in image signal processing for embedded vision system. Nextchip is a fabless company and the oldest one in South Korea with Vision technology. Working for the last 13 years at Nextchip, he has extensively led the Automotive business globally to succeed to OEM, Tier1 and Tier2. He also specializes in planning strategy and is responsible for partnership, technical marketing for designing the product portfolio by build-up the robust eco-system. He is now focusing on the business of the image signal processing technology into ADAS and AD market for both stand-alone ASIC and IPs. From Vision camera for both viewing and sensing to Edge processing with small computing power required in affordable vehicle line-up, he represents them in the market as well as.
Shanning Zhang
Tire Insights and Business Development Manager
Shanning Zhang
Shanning Zhang is the Tire Insights and Business Development Manager at Goodyear Asia Pacific, where she leads a team focused on developing tire intelligence and mobility solutions.
With extensive experience in both business and technical fields within the automotive industry, Shanning has been dedicated to the development and commercialization of new technologies. Before joining Goodyear, she held positions at GEFIT, BOSCH Automotive, and the Bekaert Technology Center.
Shanning holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Nanjing University and master’s degrees in Materials Engineering from both the Université Catholique de Louvain and Grenoble INP. She had also obtained the licensee to practice law in China.
08 - 10 October 2024 | Palau de Congressos, Barcelona
AutoSens Europe
2024
Speakers
A leading line-up of distinguished influencers and specialists at the forefront of ADAS and
autonomous vehicle technology joining us
FEATURED SPEAKER
FEATURED SPEAKER
Adriano Palao
Adriano Palao
Adriano Palao has 9 years of experience in Automotive Engineering, within the Testing and Validation domain. After completing his Bachelor and Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering by Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, he worked for Nissan Motor Corporation, Applus+ IDIADA, Punch Powertrain, and Mitsubishi Electric. In January 2022 took the role of Technical Manager ADAS/AD at Euro NCAP.
FEATURED SPEAKER
FEATURED SPEAKER
Benjamin Lyon
Benjamin Lyon
Benjamin Lyon is senior vice president and chief technology officer of Aptiv, a position he has held since December 2022.
In this role, Mr. Lyon is responsible for ensuring that Aptiv remains at the forefront of emerging and disruptive technology trends and prioritizing longer-term technology and business model opportunities in mobility and adjacent markets. In addition, Mr. Lyon is responsible for the technology leadership of the global engineering organization, which includes more than 19,000 technologists located in 12 major technical centers across the globe.
Mr. Lyon has over two decades of experience in senior engineering, developing technology, commercializing products and executing program launches at leading technology companies.
Most recently, Benjamin served as Chief Engineer and Executive Vice President of Engineering and Operations of Astra Space, Inc. since 2021. In this role, he successfully deployed 22 satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) and launched the Astra Space Engine Hall-Effect thruster product line.
Before that, Benjamin served at Apple Inc. for over two decades, developing and productized sensors, displays, high-performance compute, and safety / security critical technology for scale. While at Apple, he also cofounded their autonomous systems effort.
Mr. Lyon received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
FEATURED SPEAKER
FEATURED SPEAKER
Berveleen Mashonga
Berveleen Mashonga
Berveleen Mashonga holds a masters in engineering from the University of Portsmouth, in England. Specialising in automotive advanced technology, Berveleen prides herself in being a STEM advocate and mentor for girls and women around the world
FEATURED SPEAKER
FEATURED SPEAKER
Boyd Fowler
Boyd Fowler
Dr. Boyd Fowler joined OmniVision in December 2015 as the Vice President of Marketing and was appointed Chief Technology Officer in July 2017. Prior to joining OmniVision, he was co-founder and VP of Engineering at Pixel Devices, where he focused on developing high-performance CMOS image sensors. After Pixel Devices was acquired by Agilent Technologies, Dr. Fowler was responsible for advanced development of commercial CMOS image sensor products. In 2005, Dr. Fowler joined Fairchild Imaging as the CTO and VP of Technology, where he developed SCMOS image sensors for high-performance scientific applications. After Fairchild Imaging was acquired by BAE Systems, Dr. Fowler was appointed the technology director of the CCD/CMOS image sensor business. He has authored numerous technical papers, book chapters, and patents. Dr. Fowler received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1990 and 1995 respectively.
FEATURED SPEAKER
FEATURED SPEAKER
Christian Weber
Christian Weber
Christian Weber is a seasoned automotive industry professional with over three decades of experience in engineering and leadership roles. He is currently Project House Director for Continental’s Autonomous Mobility business area, leading innovative projects in autonomous driving technologies. Previously, as Global Director, he led Continental’s Advanced Engineering ADAS activities, enhancing vehicle safety and automation. Before joining Continental in 2017, he held engineering and program management roles at Magna Electronics and Harman/Becker Automotive Systems. His entire professional career has focused on laying the groundwork for future autonomous driving functionalities and realizing automotive engineering projects on a global scale.
FEATURED SPEAKER
FEATURED SPEAKER
Duong Van Nguyen
Duong Van Nguyen
Dr. Duong-Van Nguyen is the Deputy CEO in charge of ADAS/AD at Vinfast, and was formerly Head of ADAS at Panasonic Automotive Systems Europe (PASEU) based in Germany. He is recognized as the Senior IEEE, and a member of IEEE standard P2020.
Dr. Nguyen has been a pioneer and leading scientist in the fields of ADAS, Autonomous Driving, Robotics & Machine Learning, where he has published 1 book, 9 patents and a number of journals and conference papers. His research group at Panasonic demonstrated the world-first level 4-autonomous parking at ITS World Congress 2021, and the state-of-the art of 3D Sensing and Parking in CES 2020, CES 2021, and CES 2022.
Dr. Nguyen and his PASEU team received three Research and Innovation Grants CARAMEL (2019), CPSoSAware (2020), and TRUSTEE(2022) by the European Research Council.
Before, he worked as R&D Manager at Hyundai Mobis (Germany), and as Research Engineer at Valeo (Ireland), after his Ph.D graduation in Robotics from University of Siegen (Germany, 2009-2013).
FEATURED SPEAKER
FEATURED SPEAKER
Gabriel Bowers
Gabriel Bowers
Gabriel joined Mobileye in 2018 where leads both the image path development and the planning of future image sensors at Mobileye. He holds a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the University of Victoria (2001) and an MBA from the University of Santa Clara (2012).
FEATURED SPEAKER
FEATURED SPEAKER
Kirsten Matheus
Kirsten Matheus
Dr Kirsten Matheus is engineer and economist. Since 2003, she worked in the automotive industry; since 2009 at BMW. At BMW she is responsible for the strategy for the in-vehicle networking technologies. This entails ensuring the availability of suitable in-vehicle networking technologies ahead of time. In this context she successfully introduced Ethernet as a networking technology into the automotive industry. She and her former colleague Thomas Königseder describe their experiences, background and technical concepts behind the use of Ethernet in the automotive industry in a book titled “Automotive Ethernet”. Her new book, co-authored by her colleague Michael Kaindl, “Automotive High Speed Communication Technologies, SerDes and Ethernet for Sensor and Display Applications”, will appear in Autumn 2022.
FEATURED SPEAKER
FEATURED SPEAKER
Lars Beckmann
Lars Beckmann
Master of Science (Georgia Institute of Technology) 2004 – 2008: Research on organic electronics / printable sensors @TU Braunschweig 2008 – now: Volkswagen AG, R&D Fields of expertise: optical metrology in combustion engines, accoustics incl. AVAS, metrology in automotive glazing, brake systems, flow, accoustics, enabling autonomous driving (interaction of ADAS and glazing)
FEATURED SPEAKER
FEATURED SPEAKER
Miquel Testar
Miquel Testar
ADAS product innovation professional with 15+ years background in the sensing space.
Experience leading both engineering teams and business strategy, and managing growth initiatives from the Bay Area for L4 players as well as from Germany for L2-L3 solutions with established OEMs.
FEATURED SPEAKER
FEATURED SPEAKER
Paul Schouten
Paul Schouten
Paul Schouten is a UX designer passionate about making new technologies intuitive to understand & experience by humans. His aim is to develop natural user experiences that make technology integrate into the lives of humans, so that they become invisible while at the same time enriching people’s lives.
At TomTom, Paul leads the UX concepts team, which focuses on future user interactions & technologies and make them tangible by building many prototypes in order to validate assumptions and set out north stars for future products.
Paul holds a Master degree in Industrial Design from Delft University of Technology with a specialisation in Automotive Design. Throughout his career he worked with many global automotive OEMs.
FEATURED SPEAKER
FEATURED SPEAKER
Torsten Wendler
Torsten Wendler
Leading projects and people across the automotive world of driver assistance for more than 15 years, Torsten holds a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Technische Universität Braunschweig. He began work for Volkswagen AG in 2015 and relocated to China to join VW AnHui in 2019.
Andreas Lauringer
CEO
Andreas Lauringer
Born in 1980, Austria, studied mechanical engineering and economics on the TU Graz and University of Linköping (degree). Started working in the automotive industry at Continental in Berlin 2007, building up a prototype shop for high voltage Lithium-Ion Batteries, followed by roles in Purchasing and Launch Management.
Moving back to Austria the major step was global program management at Magna, responsible for the eDrive platform development, vehicle integration and acquisition programs for various OEMs. Part of the team that established the Magna JV with Hasco in Shanghai.
Launched Kontrol in 2017, building an end to end complience platform for products with the focus on the automotive industry.
Juergen Hoellisch
CEO/Founder
Juergen Hoellisch
Juergen has an extensive success record in Application, Sales, Product Definition, Business Management and Product Marketing including set-up and management of offices around the world. He is a Strategic Advisor and Executive Management Consultant to international OEM, Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers with special focus in Asia. He has a strategic Focus on Sensors technology (Radar, Ultrasonic, Camera and Lidar) and Sensor Fusion technology (Domain Controllers) for Autonomous Drive Level 2 to Level 5. Juergen’s key Application focus is: Driver Assistance Systems (Ultra Sonic Park Assist, Radar, Camera Systems), Infotainment, Autonomous Valet Parking, Cyber Security.
Torsten Wendler
Head of Driving and ADAS / AD
Torsten Wendler
Leading projects and people across the automotive world of driver assistance for more than 15 years, Torsten holds a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Technische Universität Braunschweig. He began work for Volkswagen AG in 2015 and relocated to China to join VW AnHui in 2019.
Adrian Capata
Senior Vice President - Autosense
Adrian Capata
Adrian is the Senior Vice President Autosense at Tobii – the company’s business segment focused on interior sensing.
Adrian has two decades of experience in the space of computer vision and edge AI.
He led global technology development, product management and customer engineering teams and developed a track record of deploying edge computer vision applications on consumer products such as smart cameras, smartphones, and smart cars.Adrian has over 40 granted and published US patents in computer vision and computational imaging.
He earned his Bachelor of Science in Imaging & Artificial Intelligence and his Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Politehnica University of Bucharest.
Berveleen Mashonga
Product Manager
Berveleen Mashonga
Berveleen Mashonga holds a masters in engineering from the University of Portsmouth, in England. Specialising in automotive advanced technology, Berveleen prides herself in being a STEM advocate and mentor for girls and women around the world
Kirsten Matheus
Senior Expert
Kirsten Matheus
Dr Kirsten Matheus is engineer and economist. Since 2003, she worked in the automotive industry; since 2009 at BMW. At BMW she is responsible for the strategy for the in-vehicle networking technologies. This entails ensuring the availability of suitable in-vehicle networking technologies ahead of time. In this context she successfully introduced Ethernet as a networking technology into the automotive industry. She and her former colleague Thomas Königseder describe their experiences, background and technical concepts behind the use of Ethernet in the automotive industry in a book titled “Automotive Ethernet”. Her new book, co-authored by her colleague Michael Kaindl, “Automotive High Speed Communication Technologies, SerDes and Ethernet for Sensor and Display Applications”, will appear in Autumn 2022.
Prof Valentina Donzella
Professor
Prof Valentina Donzella
Dr Valentina Donzella received her BSc (2003) and MSc (2005) in Electronics Engineering from University of Pisa and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy), and her PhD (2010) in Innovative Technologies for Information, Communication and Perception Engineering from Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies. In 2009, she was a visiting graduate student at McMasterUniversity (Hamilton, ON, Canada) in the Engineering Physics department. She is currently Associated Professor, Head of the Sensors area in the Intelligent Vehicles group at WMG, University of Warwick, UK. She has been awarded a Royal Academy ofEngineering Industrial Fellowship on camera sensors and she is the lead of the workpackage on sensor modelling in the EU project ROADVIEW; Before joining WMG, she was a MITACS and SiEPIC postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada), in the Silicon Photonics group. She is first author, co-author, and last author of several journal papers on top tier optics and sensors journals. Her research interests are: LiDAR, Intelligent Vehicles, integrated optical sensors, noise factors, sensor fusion, and silicon photonics. Dr Donzella is Full College member of EPSRC and Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy.
Adriano Palao
Technical Manager ADAS & AD
Adriano Palao
Adriano Palao has 9 years of experience in Automotive Engineering, within the Testing and Validation domain. After completing his Bachelor and Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering by Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, he worked for Nissan Motor Corporation, Applus+ IDIADA, Punch Powertrain, and Mitsubishi Electric. In January 2022 took the role of Technical Manager ADAS/AD at Euro NCAP.
Boyd Fowler
CTO
Boyd Fowler
Dr. Boyd Fowler joined OmniVision in December 2015 as the Vice President of Marketing and was appointed Chief Technology Officer in July 2017. Prior to joining OmniVision, he was co-founder and VP of Engineering at Pixel Devices, where he focused on developing high-performance CMOS image sensors. After Pixel Devices was acquired by Agilent Technologies, Dr. Fowler was responsible for advanced development of commercial CMOS image sensor products. In 2005, Dr. Fowler joined Fairchild Imaging as the CTO and VP of Technology, where he developed SCMOS image sensors for high-performance scientific applications. After Fairchild Imaging was acquired by BAE Systems, Dr. Fowler was appointed the technology director of the CCD/CMOS image sensor business. He has authored numerous technical papers, book chapters, and patents. Dr. Fowler received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1990 and 1995 respectively.
Albert Theuwissen
Founder
Albert Theuwissen
Albert Theuwissen is author or coauthor of 200+ technical papers in the solid-state imaging field and issued several patents. He was co-editor of IEEE Micro special issue on Digital Imaging Nov./Dec. 1998 and of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices special issues on Solid-State Image Sensors, May 1991, October 1997 and January 2003. For the latest special issue IEEE-ED on image sensors, published in January 2016, he acted as the guest editor-in-chief. He was general chairman of the International Image Sensor Workshop in 1997, 2003, 2009 and 2015. He is member of the Steering Committee of the aforementioned workshop and founder of the Walter Kosonocky Award, which highlights the best paper in the field of solid-state image sensors. Together with his peers, Eric Fossum and Nobukazu Teranishi, he founded the International Image Sensor Society, a non-profit organization to stimulate sharing of technical knowledge in the field of digital image capturing.
Clément Nouvel
CTO
Clément Nouvel
Clément Nouvel is LiDAR CTO at Valeo Group, leading supplier in the field of Safety and Automated Driving, and market leader in automotive grade LiDAR sensors.
Prior to this position, Clément has been acting as Active Safety Business Development Director from 2016 to 2019 and held several positions at Renault-Nissan Alliance from 2003 focused on innovation engineering and project management, based in France and Asia.
He is currently in charge of leading Valeo LiDAR product development, a global team including functions ranging from Business Development to Engineering and Technology Partnerships.
Clément holds a Master’s degree from both Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité, as well as an Executive MBA from INSEAD.
Andras Palffy
Co-Founder
Andras Palffy
Dr. Andras Palffy, MSc from Cranfield, UK, is a machine perception expert from Hungary.
He worked at a computer vision startup acquired by Verizon before pursuing a PhD at TU Delft, specialising in Radar-Based perception for Intelligent Vehicles.
During his PhD, he recognized that while radars have been used for years in the automotive industry for functions like cruise control and emergency braking, their full potential remained unexplored, and can only be achieved through dedicated radar-focused AI solutions.
That is why with two fellow scholars (Balazs Szekeres and Srimannarayana Baratam), he founded Perciv AI, a machine perception software company providing next-generation, AI-driven perception solutions for radars and sensor fusion.
Gregor Sievers
Product Manager ESI Unit
Gregor Sievers
Experienced Product Manager and Group Lead with a focus on testing and validation of environment sensors for autonomous driving (Camera, Radar, Lidar) and FPGA technology. Background in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with a Ph.D. in chip design from Bielefeld University.
Eugene Wang
GM - Global Automotive
Eugene Wang
Eugene Wang has more than 10 years of semiconductor experience from Silicon Valley. He has been responsible for product line management and global business development in both F500 and unicorn startup . He has profound insight into the semiconductor ecosystem. Eugene Wang is now responsible for global business and product strategy for SemiDrive.
Yuanjun Liang
Co-founder and CTO
Yuanjun Liang
Yuanjun Liang, Co-founder and CTO of Rsemi, graduated with a Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and subsequently worked for Huawei and Pango Microsystems Limited. He has been engaged in the development of high-speed Serdes for many years and has overseen the mass production of numerous chips.
Marius Dupuis
CEO
Marius Dupuis
Marius Dupuis holds a diploma in aerospace engineering. He became co-founder and general manager of VIRES Simulationstechnologie GmbH in 1998 and grew the company to a leading provider of environment simulation solutions for ADAS and autonomous driving systems. Marius left VIRES in 2020 and started to work as an independent consultant. During that phase, he also founded Sim|Cert and co-founded GEONATIVES. Marius is one of the initiators and original authors of the simulation data standards OpenDRIVE, OpenCRG and OpenSCENARIO. In 2018, he supervised their transfer to ASAM e.V.. Following these standards and his personal interest in dynamic organizations, Marius joined ASAM e.V. in May 2022 as CEO.
Bill Parrish
CoFounder and CTO
Bill Parrish
Bill Parrish is perhaps one of the most well-known luminaries in thermal imaging having pioneered the technology for multiple industries, including military, industrial, consumer and more, since the early 1980s. Bill’s first company, Amber Engineering, was acquired by Raytheon (RTN) in 1992, and focused on commercializing advanced military infrared technology by applying novel engineering and business practices to dramatically reduce the cost.
In the mid-90s, Bill then launched and became the first CEO of Indigo Systems, another industry leader in thermal image technologies and products, and took the company through extraordinary growth (> $75 m Revenue in just six years) to an acquisition by FLIR in 2004. Seek Thermal is Bill’s third company in the infrared thermal imaging space and perhaps the most unique. With a vision to bring the smallest, most affordable infrared sensor and thermal imaging technology to market, Seek is opening a new world of thermal applications useful in solving everyday problems. Bill’s numerous papers, patents and awards (including MSS Fellow, The Levenstein Award for Infrared Technology Leadership and Management, South Coast Business and Technology Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002, and UCSB’s Narayanamurti Entrepreneurial Leadership Co-Award in 2004) attest to his enduring impact on infrared technology and business.
Bill received his engineering education at UCSB graduating BSEE ’73, MSEE ’74, and PhD EE ’76 emphasizing integrated circuit design and fabrication.
Matt Daley
Technical Director
Matt Daley
Matt Daley is Technical Director at rFpro – the leading simulation environment for the development and testing of ADAS, autonomous vehicles, vehicle dynamics and human factor studies. Matt’s career began in world championship-winning F1 teams where he honed his skill for applying fundamental engineering principles to solving important technology challenges. As part of rFpro’s expert team, he is enabling companies to use simulation in a wide variety of applications, from OEM vehicle dynamics to Tier1 sensor and system developments. Matt’s passion is to push the boundaries of simulation, ensuring rFpro is at the leading edge of modelling the real world.
Paola Iacomussi
Senior Researcher, Applied Metrology Dept
Paola Iacomussi
Paola Iacomussi is a senior researcher at INRIM, the Italian National Metrological Institute, in the Department of Applied Metrology and Engineering, and a lecturer at the University of Turin.
She started her research activity at the Research Centre of FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) and then moved to the National Metrological Institute, where she worked on photometry and colorimetry of materials and sources (also for road applications), performance characterisation of road lighting and digital camera. She has developed measurement instruments for third parties, such as a mobile laboratory for the characterisation of road lighting systems.
She has successfully coordinated several international and national research projects, including the EU-funded SURFACE (Road Surface Characterisation for Smart Lighting) project. She is currently coordinating the CIE group for the development of a non-biological reference observer for road and automotive applications.
Farzad Inanlou
Director, Automotive
Farzad Inanlou
Farzad Inanlou leads the Automotive ADAS, In-Vehicle Networking, and Connectivity business at GlobalFoundries. Farzad has 15+ years of experience in business and technology at GF, PARC, NASA JPL, Qualcomm. Dr. Inanlou holds a PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology and is a National Science Foundation Fellowship alumni.
Mihai Ilie
Data Science Manager
Mihai Ilie
Mihai Ilie is a Data Science Manager within the DSW Product Line at Valeo, providing solutions in the driving assistance and vision segments. Prior to this position, Mihai has been working for Wind River as a Member of the Technical Staff, developing products for industries like automotive, mobile, medical and aerospace and defence. He is currently managing the Data Science, Training Framework and MLOps components of the BEV algorithms implemented as part of the Computer Vision platform. Mihai holds a Doctorate degree in Content Based Image Retrieval, as well as a Master’s degree in Intelligent Systems.
Anto Michel
Software Architect, Driving Assistance Systems
Anto Michel
Anto Michael is a software architect at Valeo, with a masters degree from University of Stuttgart. He specializes in the implementation of complex mathematical algorithms in embedded software. He is also a system expert in Driving Assistance Systems with special focus on sensor data fusion. He has about 15 years of relevant industry experience.
Daniel Shwartzberg
Director of Automotive System Solutions
Daniel Shwartzberg
As Director of Business Development and System Solutions at Valens Semiconductor, Daniel brings more than 30 years of engineering experience to this role, working with OEMs and Tier-1s worldwide to bring innovative next-gen E/E architectures and solutions to market. Prior to Valens, Daniel was Director of Marketing at TranSwitch, and has also held positions in project management and engineering at Mindspeed Technologies, Comverse Network Systems and Ford Motor Company. Daniel holds a Master’s degree in Engineering and a Bachelor’s Degree with Honors in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
Lars Beckmann
Team Lead Glazing Systems, Technical Development
Lars Beckmann
Master of Science (Georgia Institute of Technology) 2004 – 2008: Research on organic electronics / printable sensors @TU Braunschweig 2008 – now: Volkswagen AG, R&D Fields of expertise: optical metrology in combustion engines, accoustics incl. AVAS, metrology in automotive glazing, brake systems, flow, accoustics, enabling autonomous driving (interaction of ADAS and glazing)
Conhas Thakkar
Principal Solution Architect
Conhas Thakkar
Conhas Thakkar is a Technical Solution Architect at Siemens EDA, focusing on Digital Twin implementation and innovation for automotive customers through the PAVE360 program – applying transformative technologies to the challenges of autonomous and connected vehicles. His focus areas are – Functional safety, and bringing safety into mixed-fidelity modeling techniques.
Faez Ba-Tis
CEO and Co-founder
Faez Ba-Tis
Faez Ba-Tis received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 2017 . He is specialized in the filed of MEMS actuators for camera applications such autofocus and OIS. As a young visionary entrepreneur, Faez has been leading Sheba as CEO since founded in 2016. He demonstrated his leadership skills by effectively managing Sheba team and establishing crucial partnerships with key clients across diverse markets. With his profound technical knowledge on MEMS, he possesses an in-depth understanding of the competitive landscape of the MEMS actuator market, enabling him to formulate effective and innovative strategies for Sheba’s future in actuation technology. He has over 30 international patents and patent applications.
Michele Richichi
Autonomy Principal Research Analyst
Michele Richichi
Michele is a Principal Research Analyst at S&P Global Mobility, leading the research for Autonomy in Europe.
Michele specializes in the areas of automated driving. He works as analyst researching mobility and automotive technologies with a focus on advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), sensors and related industry trends. Complementary research includes technical topics from standards to safety protocols, mandates and regulations, cost, pricing and consumer adoption.
Before joining S&P, He worked for +12 years in the ADAS design field for the industry: at Stellantis as Global Technical Leader, Performance Manager for Maserati, Functional Integrator for FCA and Research & Development for Marelli since 2010. He has extensive experience facilitating dialogue between international carmakers (OEM), major automotive suppliers and tech companies, converging to the most scalable technical solutions and developing autonomous driving strategies.
Key Expertise: ADAS Functional Integration design (OEM perspective), ADAS performance benchmarking and target definition in compliance with EuroNCAP objective & mandated regulations (such as GSR), technical project management and Automated driving legislation, strategies and sensors roadmap.
Previously Michele graduated with honours as Electronic Engineer from Politecnico di Torino. He is based in Torino (Italy) and speaks fluently English, Portugues and of course Italian.
Nicholas Du Lac
CEO
Nicholas Du Lac
Nicolas du LAC, graduated in 2000 in engineering major Robotics, he joined Intempora in 2001 as software engineer, then CTO of the company. In 2012 he was appointed CEO of Intempora. Today he manages the company and the software development engineering team.
Martin Punke
Head of Camera Product Technology
Martin Punke
Dr. Martin Punke is leading the Camera Product Technology group at Continental. His team is working on concepting, engineering and productization of camera systems for ADAS applications with a focus on optics, image sensors and image quality. Additionally, camera sensor modelling is a recent work product of his group. In his previous positions at Nokia he was responsible of camera, flashlight and illumination technologies in mobile phones. Martin received the Dipl.-Ing. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and information technology from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. In his Ph.D. thesis he worked on organic semiconductor devices for microoptical applications.
Roger Lanctot
CEO
Roger Lanctot
Roger is CEO and founder of StrategiaNow Consulting, President of the Mobile Satellite User Association, and is an advisor to the International Telecommunications Union. Roger draws on 25+ years’ experience in the technology industry as an analyst, journalist and consultant. Roger is a graduate of Dartmouth College.
Robert Vermeer
Innovation Lead
Robert Vermeer
Robert is a programme manager with InnovateUK, supporting the challenge definition and overseeing the delivery of the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles project portfolio. His role involves supporting research & development projects to help shape the future and prosper businesses in the mobility sector. InnovateUK Connected and Autonomous Vehicles work brings together consortia of academia, technology start-ups, medium and large enterprises to help solve the main challenges of our future mobility systems, infrastructure and services. He is passionate about seeing technology grow from idea, through prototype to product which result in having a positive impact on people’s lives.
Matthias Schulze
Global VP ADAS Product
Matthias Schulze
More than 20 years of experience as Project Manager, Team Manager and Executive in the area of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and Telematics for passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Familiar with all technologies involved such as vehicle control, environment perception, digital maps, positioning and vehicular communication technology. Experienced in strategy development. Very well networked within worldwide ADAS and ITS community. Long lasting contacts to R&D departments of all major European and Japanese OEMs, suppliers and electronics companies and to research institutes and universities.
Long record of collaboration with European Commission, German Federal Ministries of Economics and Technology and of Education and Research, Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport in Japan and US DoT. Well experienced in representing own company or interests of consortia in associations such as ACEA (European Automobile Manufacturers´ Association), EUCAR (European Council for Automotive R&D) or VDA (Verband der Automobilindustrie).
Peter Vastag
Development Engineer ADAS Camera
Peter Vastag
Peter Vastag received his diploma (2012) and Ph.D. (2017) in physics from Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen, Germany. He joined Robert Bosch GmbH in 2017, since then working in the hardware development of driver assistance cameras, focussing on image quality topics, esp. related to image sensors.
Benjamin Lyon
CTO
Benjamin Lyon
Benjamin Lyon is senior vice president and chief technology officer of Aptiv, a position he has held since December 2022.
In this role, Mr. Lyon is responsible for ensuring that Aptiv remains at the forefront of emerging and disruptive technology trends and prioritizing longer-term technology and business model opportunities in mobility and adjacent markets. In addition, Mr. Lyon is responsible for the technology leadership of the global engineering organization, which includes more than 19,000 technologists located in 12 major technical centers across the globe.
Mr. Lyon has over two decades of experience in senior engineering, developing technology, commercializing products and executing program launches at leading technology companies.
Most recently, Benjamin served as Chief Engineer and Executive Vice President of Engineering and Operations of Astra Space, Inc. since 2021. In this role, he successfully deployed 22 satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) and launched the Astra Space Engine Hall-Effect thruster product line.
Before that, Benjamin served at Apple Inc. for over two decades, developing and productized sensors, displays, high-performance compute, and safety / security critical technology for scale. While at Apple, he also cofounded their autonomous systems effort.
Mr. Lyon received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Brian Deegan
Lecturer and Academic Researcher in Electrical and Electronic Imaging
Brian Deegan
Expert in automotive camera and perception systems, image quality, sensors, optics, image processing, and computer vision. 11 years of industry experience at Valeo Vision systems, developing first-to-market automotive camera systems, including rearview, surround view, mirror replacement and machine vision camera systems. Co-author of IEEE P2020 Automotive Image Quality Standard. Broad experience in camera module manufacturing, including industrial vision system development, production test specification, production automation optimisation and quality control.
Alex Gerodimos
Member
Alex Gerodimos
Alex supports market expansion at Simulytic, an insurtech startup and member of PAVE Europe that provides autonomous vehicle deployment risk scores to the insurance industry. In his 25 years of experience, he has led technical and commercial teams across Europe and North America, focussing on modelling the mobility of people and goods for various B2B technology startups.
Andreas Augsten
Head of Product Planning
Andreas Augsten
Andreas Augsten holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Technical University Darmstadt (Germany). In the early days of in-car navigation systems, Andreas was engaged in launching one of the first systems in European market while he also has many years of experience in car audio products. Since 2010 he is working at Mobis Technical Center Europe in multiple roles covering Infotainment, ADAS, Autonomous Driving and required sensors. Currently, Andreas is leading product planning and technology strategy topics in Europe focusing on realizing innovations for vehicle automation and future mobility.
Igor Ivanov
Director of Technologies
Igor Ivanov
Holding a Master’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Experienced engineer and leader, with a demonstrated history of solving complex problems in various fields including Image Processing and Computer Vision, utilizing all the available techniques- from classic to Deep Learning.
Duong Van Nguyen
Deputy CEO
Duong Van Nguyen
Dr. Duong-Van Nguyen is the Deputy CEO in charge of ADAS/AD at Vinfast, and was formerly Head of ADAS at Panasonic Automotive Systems Europe (PASEU) based in Germany. He is recognized as the Senior IEEE, and a member of IEEE standard P2020.
Dr. Nguyen has been a pioneer and leading scientist in the fields of ADAS, Autonomous Driving, Robotics & Machine Learning, where he has published 1 book, 9 patents and a number of journals and conference papers. His research group at Panasonic demonstrated the world-first level 4-autonomous parking at ITS World Congress 2021, and the state-of-the art of 3D Sensing and Parking in CES 2020, CES 2021, and CES 2022.
Dr. Nguyen and his PASEU team received three Research and Innovation Grants CARAMEL (2019), CPSoSAware (2020), and TRUSTEE(2022) by the European Research Council.
Before, he worked as R&D Manager at Hyundai Mobis (Germany), and as Research Engineer at Valeo (Ireland), after his Ph.D graduation in Robotics from University of Siegen (Germany, 2009-2013).
Richard Seoane
VP Thermal Business Development
Richard Seoane
Richard Seoane is an accomplished leader with more than 30 years in the automotive industry, currently serving as Vice President of Business Development, Thermal Sensing, Magna Electronics. In his role, he leads the Thermal Business Unit, working collaboratively with various organizations to highlight the importance of thermal sensing in reducing traffic accidents and pedestrian fatalities.
Over the course of his career, Seoane has held different roles in Engineering, Operations, and General Management for vision cameras and driver monitoring systems at several companies in various countries. In these roles, he was responsible for quality, process optimization and core engineering.
Seoane holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Orleans, USA. Seoane currently resides in Santa Barbara, California.
Ian Montandon
Co-Founder
Ian Montandon
Ian has nearly 40 years of experience in the Electronics Industry, initially as an IC Design Engineer, then moving into roles in Applications Engineering, Product Marketing, Sales and Business Development. Between 2002 and 2012 he was responsible for OmniVision Technologies European CMOS Image Sensor business, from the very start of the camera phone and automotive camera businesses. Between 2012 and 2022, Ian worked in global sales and business development for Valeo, the world’s 4th-largest ADAS automotive supplier. Since the end of 2022, Ian has been running INET Europe, a consultancy and rep company.
Lionel Bennes
Senior Product Manager
Lionel Bennes
Lionel Bennes, PhD, serves as Senior Product Manager for AVxcelerate products at Ansys. Lionel has more than 10 years of experience in Optical and Real Time simulation, mainly in the Automotive and A&D fields. He has overseen the design and development of Headlamp and Sensors products, leveraging a unique combination of real time rendering techniques combined with physics based optical simulations.
Miquel Testar
Product Lead ADAS
Miquel Testar
ADAS product innovation professional with 15+ years background in the sensing space.
Experience leading both engineering teams and business strategy, and managing growth initiatives from the Bay Area for L4 players as well as from Germany for L2-L3 solutions with established OEMs.
Pier Paolo Porta
Marketing Director
Pier Paolo Porta
Pier Paolo Porta is responsible for Ambarella’s Automotive European Business Unit as well as stereovision-related product marketing. In July 2005, he received the Dr. Ing. (Master) degree in Electronic Engineering from Università di Parma, Italy. In 2005 he also joined VisLab, the Artificial Vision research group at the Università di Parma, where he earned a PhD in Information Technology in 2010. In 2009, Porta was one of the founding associates of VisLab srl, and from 2010 he was part of the Board of Governors of the company until it was acquired by Ambarella in 2015. Porta’s background is in autonomous driving and ADAS, and he is focused on stereovision, sensor fusion, and traffic sign recognition.
Dr Elliot London
Simulation Performance Engineer
Dr Elliot London
Simulation Performance Engineer at rFpro, focusing on the verification and validation of simulation and sensing software.
PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, along with an MSc by Research in Laser Physics and BSc in Physics from Swansea University.
Previously, I worked as a Fibre Laser Engineer at SPI Lasers UK, where I contributed to the testing and development of high-power CW fibre laser systems.
Prof. Alexander Braun
Professor of Physics
Prof. Alexander Braun
Professor of Physics and Optics. Expert in automotive image quality. 25 years of experience with optical technologies of all flavours, from fundamental quantum optics research to optical quality questions arising during assembly of 100.000 cameras per year. I also research explainable AI methods to further investigate the link between optical quality, image quality and the impact on AI explainability.
Sergio Fernandez
Expert in LiDAR Algorithms
Sergio Fernandez
I pursued my MsC in telecommunications in Sevilla (Spain). After finishing an european holded PhD in computer vision, I started my contact with LiDAR technologies and shortly after joined started at VALEO within the LiDAR 1st generation SW team, where I worked as algorithm developer and algorithm architect. I am VALEO expert in LiDAR technology since 2020 and currently team lead for SCALA3 LiDAR perception algorithms.
Anas Chalak
Market and Technology Analyst - Imaging
Anas Chalak
Anas Chalak is Technology & Market analyst, Imaging, at Yole Group. He is a member of the Imaging & Display team, within the More than Moore activities. Anas contributes on a day-to-day basis to follow imaging technology activity to provide market and technology analysis, as well as contributing to the production of relevant reports and projects. Previously, Anas carried out research focusing on integrated mid-infrared photonics. Later, he worked as a research engineer on the optical optimization of a 3D FMCW lidar system in CEA-Leti, France. Anas obtained a Master’s in Nanoscale Engineering from École Centrale de Lyon, France.
Pierrick Boulay
Senior Analyst - Automotive Semiconductor
Pierrick Boulay
Pierrick Boulay is Senior Technology & Market Analyst, Automotive Semiconductor at Yole Group.
He works in the fields of solid-state lighting and lighting systems, carrying out technical, economic, and marketing analyses. In addition, he leads the automotive activities within the company.
Pierrick has authored several reports and custom analyses on topics such as automotive lighting, LiDAR, sensing for ADAS vehicles, and VCSELs.
Norman Koren
Founder & CTO
Norman Koren
Norman Koren became interested in photography while growing up near the George Eastman House photographic museum in Rochester, NY. He received his BA in physics from Brown University (1965) and his Masters in physics from Wayne State University (1969). He worked in the computer storage industry simulating digital magnetic recording systems and channels for disk and tape drives from 1967-2001. He founded Imatest LLC in 2003 to develop software and test charts to measure the quality of digital imaging systems.
John Hong
CEO
John Hong
Co-founder and CEO of Obsidian Sensors. John is an electrical engineer with expertise in optics, semiconductors, microwave to terahertz systems and systems engineering and has held leadership posts at Qualcomm, Jet Propulsion Labs (NASA) and Rockwell. John also served as adjunct professor at Caltech and UCSD. John graduated from MIT with a BS and Caltech with a PhD, both in electrical engineering.
Christian Weber
Head of Advanced Engineering ADAS
Christian Weber
Christian Weber is a seasoned automotive industry professional with over three decades of experience in engineering and leadership roles. He is currently Project House Director for Continental’s Autonomous Mobility business area, leading innovative projects in autonomous driving technologies. Previously, as Global Director, he led Continental’s Advanced Engineering ADAS activities, enhancing vehicle safety and automation. Before joining Continental in 2017, he held engineering and program management roles at Magna Electronics and Harman/Becker Automotive Systems. His entire professional career has focused on laying the groundwork for future autonomous driving functionalities and realizing automotive engineering projects on a global scale.
Josh Wreford
Product Manager
Josh Wreford
Josh has a BSc in Electronic Engineering and an MSc in Space Engineering from the University of Surrey. During his last year of studies Josh joined the universities Formula Student team and quickly developed interest in the automotive sector. This lead to a job working at McLaren automotive as a gearbox control engineer. Simulation became an integral part of his job as it allowed him to rapidly develop and test the control software in the most efficient way. Driven by his passion for simulation, he joined rFpro and is now the Product Manager for AV Elevate, a fully integrated simulation solution designed for ADAS and AV development.
James Hodgson
Research Director
James Hodgson
James Hodgson, Research Director at ABI Research, conducts research related to the field of autonomous driving and smart mobility, with a focus primarily on quantitative forecasting and analysis in the areas of Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS), autonomous driving, cooperative mobility and connected infotainment.
Gulwinder Randhawa
Technical Staff
Gulwinder Randhawa
Gulwinder Randhawa is a Member of Technical Staff at onsemi based in UK, covering field applications of automotive Tier-1s & OEMs for supporting and developing cuttings edge CMOS imaging systems to facilitate autonomous driving at different levels.
He has B.Eng. degree in Electronics & Communications from the University of Nagpur, India and an MTech. degree in Digital Electronics from University of Hertfordshire in the UK.
Gulwinder has over seventeen years of experience working on camera systems, including CMOS image sensors, HDR, optics, image/video signal processing pipelines, architectures, characterization and camera drivers in R&D and Applications roles at onsemi, Aptina Imaging, Access-IS & Nokia.
Leandro Di Bella
PHD Researcher / Electrical Engineer
Leandro Di Bella
Leandro Di Bella is a 1st year PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, as part of the ETRO group. His research is centered on smart mobility. More specifically, he is focusing on AI algorithm and computer vision, including vehicle pose estimation, tracking and vision graph-based traffic understanding for Distributed Intelligent transportation systems.
Paul Schouten
Design Team Lead
Paul Schouten
Paul Schouten is a UX designer passionate about making new technologies intuitive to understand & experience by humans. His aim is to develop natural user experiences that make technology integrate into the lives of humans, so that they become invisible while at the same time enriching people’s lives.
At TomTom, Paul leads the UX concepts team, which focuses on future user interactions & technologies and make them tangible by building many prototypes in order to validate assumptions and set out north stars for future products.
Paul holds a Master degree in Industrial Design from Delft University of Technology with a specialisation in Automotive Design. Throughout his career he worked with many global automotive OEMs.
Lu Ren
Systems Engineering Manager
Lu Ren
Lu Ren, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto, is the lead of the systems engineering team at ASMPT AEi. With specialization in ADAS camera alignment and testing, Dr. Ren has actively led critical customer projects and spearheaded the design and development of optical target module designs for the past decade. His expertise extends to visible-NIR and long-wave infrared (LWIR)target projectors. Notably, Dr. Ren holds a patent for his exceptional optical target module design.
Gabriel Bowers
Sr. Principal Architect – Imaging
Gabriel Bowers
Gabriel joined Mobileye in 2018 where leads both the image path development and the planning of future image sensors at Mobileye. He holds a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the University of Victoria (2001) and an MBA from the University of Santa Clara (2012).
Felix Heide
Head of Artificial Intelligence
Felix Heide
Felix Heide is an Assistant Professor at Princeton University, Head of AI at Torc Robotics, and Founder self-driving vehicle startup Algolux (now part of Diamler Trucks and Torc Robotics). He is researching the theory and application of computational imaging and computer vision systems. Exploring imaging, vision, and display systems end-to-end, Felix’s work lies at the intersection of optics, machine learning, optimization, computer graphics, and computer vision. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia.
Agish George
Chapter Lead - Functional Safety, Jaguar Land Rover
Agish George
Agish has spent the last couple of decades in various challenging engineering and leadership roles in Automotive and Robotics. The first 14 years of his career in various engineering roles across various global locations at Bosch. He has worked on various interesting projects including autonomous driving, over the air updates, home robotics etc. He has contributed to the development of various safety standards like UL 3300 and UL 4600 and has been a speaker at SAE and IEEE. In his current role he is responsible for the engineering of functionally safe HW and SW for ADAS platforms.
Ariel Sobelman
SVP, Corporate Development
Ariel Sobelman
Dr. Ariel Sobelman is a 25 year veteran of the semiconductor industry with vast experience in standardization. He Is a senior VP at Valens semiconductor as well as a Senior Researcher at Tel Aviv University, focusing on international technology policy. Dr. sobelman served as president of the HDBaseT Alliance for 10 years and has been a leading contributor to the MIPI APhy standards development. In 2024 he published a book on technology and semiconductor strategy.
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2024
Speakers
A leading line-up of distinguished influencers and specialists at the forefront of ADAS and
autonomous vehicle technology joining us
Alex Polonsky
Founder
Alex Polonsky
A former open-wheel racing driver, Alex Polonsky is a dynamic bilingual engineer who traded Silicon Valley for the heart of Detroit in pursuit of his passion for transportation and cutting-edge technology. Currently at the forefront of innovation as an electronics engineer with the Brose Group, Alex is not just shaping the future of mobility but also founded the Detroit Autonomous Vehicle Group (DAVG) in 2017.
Alexis Lluis Gomez
Technical Director - Imaging
Alexis Lluis Gomez
Alexis has experience in multiple disciplines in the emerging field of image processing, from academia to commercial R&D, with a proven history of working in the semiconductor industry. Currently he is Technical Director – Imaging at Arm, responsible for the image signal processor (ISP) architecture and the Imaging technology research team. Alexis joined Arm in May 2016 after spending the previous 6 years with Apical, where he was responsible for Image Quality and R&D of advanced image processing models, computational algorithms and tuning for end-to-end ISP performance. Prior to joining Apical he was a researcher at Loughborough University where he studied for his PhD in Vision and Imaging Systems, and holds a BSc and MSc in computer science.
Andreas Ask
Deep Learning Researcher
Andreas Ask
Andreas is a Deep Learning researcher at Embedl. He received his PhD in Physics from Chalmers University of Technology in 2021, where he worked on quantum computing, and his M.Sc. in physics from the University of Gothenburg in 2015. With a keen interest in everything deep-learning related, Andreas specializes in optimizing deep learning models for embedded systems. He is especially interested in model compression techniques centered around network pruning, neural architecture search, and knowledge distillation, and how to tailor these techniques to industrial needs.
Antonio Puglielli
VP Engineering
Antonio Puglielli
Antonio has been working on automotive radar for 6 years at Zendar, where he is currently VP of Engineering. Prior to joining Zendar, he received his PhD in electrical engineering at the University of California Berkeley, where he worked on chip, system, and signal processing development for mm-wave communication links.
Bendix De Meulemeester
Director Marketing & Business Development
Bendix De Meulemeester
Bendix De Meulemeester, a graduate of Ghent University with a master’s in electronics and photonics, serves as the Director of Marketing & Business Development at Umicore Electro-Optic Materials. With over 20 years at Umicore and past experience in the United States, Bendix leverages his expertise to steer Umicore’s innovations in photonics and clean energy. His current focus is integrating these breakthroughs into consumer and automotive markets, fortifying Umicore’s position as a technology leader.
Berveleen Mashonga
Product Manager
Berveleen Mashonga
Berveleen Mashonga holds a masters in engineering from the University of Portsmouth, in England. Specialising in automotive advanced technology, Berveleen prides herself in being a STEM advocate and mentor for girls and women around the world
Chuck Gershman
CEO, Co-Founder
Chuck Gershman
Mr. Gershman is a Drexel University College of Engineering inductee into the Alumni Circle of Distinction, the highest honor bestowed upon alumni. He has been honored as a finalist for CMP publications (EE Times) prestigious ACE award as High Technology Executive of the Year and was previously named a Top 40 Healthcare Transformer by Medical Marketing & Media for his work on Clinical AI Decision Support for cancer patients. Chuck holds four US patents for his contributions to Microprocessor Architecture. Chuck brings over 30 years of technology and semiconductor industry experience in executive management, marketing, engineering, business development, sales, consulting, and executive advising. Including Owl Autonomous Imaging. Mr. Gershman has served as CEO/COO and a Board Director for three companies, he knows what it takes to lead a vision to reality – having led successful exits with acquisitions by Intel and PMC-Sierra. As President & CEO of Bay Microsystems (now Vcinity), Chuck guided the company through two high-tech recessions and from a pre-revenue start-up to a thriving profitable industry leader with over $100M in aggregate sales. In 2007 Bay was selected as a finalist as the Most Respected Private Semiconductor Company by the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), and in 2008 Bay was recognized by Deliotte for the Silicon Valley Technology Fast 50 (#15) and US Fast 500 (#136) with nearly 1400% growth.
Colin Kwan
CEO
Colin Kwan
Colin Kwan, President and CEO of MEMS Drive Inc., founded the company in 2014 with a team of experts in MEMS design, wafer process and packaging. MEMS is the short form of Micro-ElectroMechanical System. MEMS Drive is the first semiconductor based 5-axis Optical Image Stablization (OIS) for smartphone.
Prior to MEMS Drive, Colin joined DigitalOptics (DOC) in 2010 as VP of China (S&M), he led the team to launch the first lens based MEMS autofocus camera module with OPPO and achieved the commercialization of state-of-the-art technology. Before DOC, Colin managed the sales division in Sigmatel China and Freescale Semiconductor with a leading position in audio/video SoC for consumer electronics space.
Conhas Thakkar
Principal Solution Architect
Conhas Thakkar
Conhas Thakkar is a Technical Solution Architect at Siemens EDA, focusing on Digital Twin implementation and innovation for automotive customers through the PAVE360 program – applying transformative technologies to the challenges of autonomous and connected vehicles. His focus areas are – Functional safety, and bringing safety into mixed-fidelity modeling techniques.
Daniel Shwartzberg
Director of Automotive System Solutions
Daniel Shwartzberg
As Director of Business Development and System Solutions at Valens Semiconductor, Daniel brings more than 30 years of engineering experience to this role, working with OEMs and Tier-1s worldwide to bring innovative next-gen E/E architectures and solutions to market. Prior to Valens, Daniel was Director of Marketing at TranSwitch, and has also held positions in project management and engineering at Mindspeed Technologies, Comverse Network Systems and Ford Motor Company. Daniel holds a Master’s degree in Engineering and a Bachelor’s Degree with Honors in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
Darren Chen
Head of Automotive Technology Initiative
Darren Chen
Darren is the head of automotive technology initiative at LITE-ON Technology Corporation, focusing on the research and development of automotive vision software for ADAS solutions. Darren is also leading the technical marketing team to develop the new business about the automotive sensors which LITEON design and manufacture for OEM & Tier1. Prior to joining LITEON, Darren was the special assistant to general manager of automotive BU at Philips LITEON Digital Solutions, and joint-developed the Head-Up Display, wireless charger, ultrasonic sensor, and then led radar & LiDAR pre-developing projects. Darren has a master’s degree in engineering science from the National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan.
Dave Tokic
VP Corporate Development
Dave Tokic
Dave leads corporate development at Torc and is a deep tech executive with over 25 years of experience in the automotive, semiconductor, and electronic design automation industries. He most recently was VP of Marketing and Business Development at Algolux (acquired by Torc), for their leading AI-based robust perception technologies for automotive and autonomy. Prior to Algolux, he led Worldwide Strategic Partnerships and Alliances for Xilinx (acquired by AMD), driving solution and services partnerships. He’s held executive product and partnership positions at Cadence Design Systems, Verisity Design, and Synopsys. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University.
David L. Howard
Principal
David L. Howard
A senior executive and transformational leader with a broad range of experiences in both public and private sector industries such as transportation, smart innovation, technology, diversity, equity and inclusion, economic and real estate development, public policy strategy, and general operations. Served as the Associate Administrator of Policy & Governmental Affairs for the Federal Highway Administration, where he provided strategic direction, oversight, and management of four operational teams – Highway Policy Information, Transportation Policy Studies, International Programs & Legislative Affairs, and Policy Communication. Led the FHWA’s national Ladders of Opportunity programming, focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
Dirk Seebaum
Product Manager
Dirk Seebaum
Dirk has a degree in Mechanical Engineering, University of Hanover, Germany, a PHD in Laser Material Processing, University of Hanover, Germany, and received an MBA from WHU, Vallendar, Germany and Kellogg School of Management, Evansville, USA. He has held various positions in R&D (laser technology) and Sales and Marketing (sensors, manufacturing equipment) in addition to General Management roles in factory and process automation. He has vast industry experience in semiconductor, electronics, logistics, and automotive.
Divya Garikapati
Senior Systems Engineer
Divya Garikapati
With over a decade in the Automotive industry, Divya specializes in Autonomous Vehicles. She pioneered and enhanced Systems and Safety Engineering methods to improve perception system development efficiency. She actively engages in discussions with industry-leading organizations like IEEE and SAE on standards topics related to software-defined and connected vehicles, AI/ML, and parallel autonomy systems. Divya is a Cisco certified network associate, and TUV SUD Functional Safety Engineer and SOTIF Certified.
Egil Juliussen
Sr. Partner & Principal Analyst at VSI Labs. Contributor to EE Times
Egil Juliussen
Egil has over 40 years’ experience in the high-tech and automotive industries. He is currently a senior partner and principal analyst at VSI Labs. VSI is unique with its applied research and technical insights derived through its own test vehicles and provide perspectives, insights and analysis of ADAS/AD technologies via its portal service. Egil is also a contributor to EE Times and has written nearly 100 articles since June 2020. Egil’s recent research has been focused on autonomous driving technologies and use-cases, software-fined vehicle segments and BEVs. He has extensive experience in technology forecasting, market forecasting and competitive analysis. Egil was co-founder of Telematics Research Group, which was acquired by iSuppli in 2008. IHS acquired iSuppli in 2010. He worked for IHS Market until mid-2020 as research director of automotive technology. Egil was Chairman and co-founder of Future Computing, an information service company that was the leading market research and product testing company for the PC industry. Future Computing was sold to McGraw-Hill. He remained president of the company’s StoreBoard unit for several years following a private placement. StoreBoard tracked the sales of PC products and was later sold to Ziff-Davis. Previously, he was with Texas Instruments where he was a strategic and product planner for microprocessors, minicomputers and PCs. He has written columns and papers for technology publications and has made presentations, seminars and lectures in the USA, Asia and Europe. Egil has made over 750 papers, reports and conference presentations in the last 35 years. He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University. Egil is a life member of IEEE.
Eugene Wang
GM - Global Automotive
Eugene Wang
Eugene Wang has more than 10 years of semiconductor experience from Silicon Valley. He has been responsible for product line management and global business development in both F500 and unicorn startup . He has profound insight into the semiconductor ecosystem. Eugene Wang is now responsible for global business and product strategy for SemiDrive.
Frank Schirrmeister
Executive Director, System Solutions
Frank Schirrmeister
Frank Schirrmeister is the Executive Director, System Solutions at Synopsys. Prior to this role, he was vice president of solutions and business development at Arteris IP, where he lead activities in the automotive, enterprise & computing, communications, consumer, and industry verticals and the technology horizontals artificial intelligence, machine learning, safety, and hardware/software. Before Arteris IP, Frank held various senior leadership positions at Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys, and Imperas, focusing on product marketing and management, solutions, strategic ecosystem partner initiatives, and customer engagement.
Ghazal Farhani
Research Officer
Ghazal Farhani
Ghazal Farhani is a Research Officer with a main focus on implementing new numerical methods, such as machine learning algorithms, to gain new insights from data. She works for the National Research Council Cananda with researchers from diverse backgrounds in engineering and sciences.
Håkan Sivencrona
Senior Technical Leader - AD/ADAS Safety
Håkan Sivencrona
Doctor Håkan Sivencrona has worked with safety related automotive applications for over 25 years for various suppliers and roles, including safety manager. He has also been involved in many research projects within AD/ADAS. Dr Sivencrona is one of the originators of the ISO 26262 SEooC concept as well as the SOTIF standard, ISO 21448.
After working at Volvo cars daughter company Zenseact for a few years, Hakan was offered to transfer to Volvo cars where he will continue to work on the mission to make every mile safer.
Jim Misener
Global V2X Ecosystem Lead
Jim Misener
Jim Misener is the Global V2X Ecosystem Lead for Qualcomm where he develops and executes the company’s V2X deployment strategy across all global regions. Jim was a pioneer in vehicle-highway automation and vehicle safety communication at the California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) at UC Berkeley. He has served as the PATH Executive Director, Executive Advisor to Booz Allen Hamilton, and as an independent consultant. In these roles, Jim has garnered the experience and reputation of delivering dozens of technology projects with large scale safety impact.
Jonathan Phillips
VP of Imaging Science
Jonathan Phillips
Jonathan Phillips is VP of Imaging Science at Imatest, a leading company in image quality testing based in Boulder, Colorado that supports camera development for many of the world’s top companies across many industries, including automotive, mobile electronics, security, aerospace, and medical imaging. He is the co-author of Camera Image Quality Benchmarking, a reference book that details objective and subjective metrics fundamental to benchmarking still and video imaging devices. Prior to joining Imatest, Jonathan was the leader of image quality in Google’s Android organization, manager of the camera image quality lab at NVIDIA, and principal scientist at Kodak. Kodak sponsored his Master’s and PhD work in color science at RIT.
Leaf Jiang
CEO & Founder
Leaf Jiang
Dr. Leaf Jiang is an engineering industry executive and leading authority on 3D vision systems. Leaf received his B.S., M.Eng, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at MIT, with a focus on optoelectronics, and then went on to MIT Lincoln Laboratories for 12 years where he headed LiDAR R&D for the President’s Office and built coherent and direct detection LiDARs for the military. In 2017, as the autonomous vehicle industry gained momentum, Leaf realized that there was a substantial opportunity to service the gap between what LiDAR could deliver and the needs of the market. Leaf started NODAR to address that gap.
Dr. Jiang lives in Concord, MA with his wife Meghan and 5 children and bikes to work every day, rain or shine.
Lionel Bennes
Senior Product Manager
Lionel Bennes
Lionel Bennes, PhD, serves as Senior Product Manager for AVxcelerate products at Ansys. Lionel has more than 10 years of experience in Optical and Real Time simulation, mainly in the Automotive and A&D fields. He has overseen the design and development of Headlamp and Sensors products, leveraging a unique combination of real time rendering techniques combined with physics based optical simulations.
Margaret Belska
Chair, IEEE-SA P2020
Margaret Belska
Margaret started her career on the Mars Global Surveyor and Hubble Space Telescope camera teams. She later joined start-up Foveon, working on early digital SLR cameras. In 2006 her career shifted to mobile imaging at companies such as Danger, Microsoft, and NVIDIA. She managed the Customer Camera team at NVIDIA for 7 years, working on imaging products for mobile, automotive, surveillance, and robotics. Margaret was Chair of the IEEE P1858 Camera Phone Image Quality (CPIQ) Workgroup and is now Chair of the IEEE P2020 Automotive Image Quality Workgroup. In her spare time, Margaret is an avid world traveler and photographer.
Maria Town
President & CEO
Maria Town
Maria Town is the President and CEO of the American Association of People with Disabilities. In this role, she works to increase the political and economic power of people with disabilities.
Previously she served as the Director of the City of Houston Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities where she advocated for the rights and needs of citizens with disabilities.
Town is the former senior associate director in the Obama White House Office of Public Engagement managing White House engagement with people with disabilities. She also worked as policy advisor at the Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy to improve employment outcomes for youth and young adults with disabilities.
Mark Fitzgerald
Consultant
Mark Fitzgerald
Mark Fitzgerald supports strategic analysis, research and forecasting for clients in ADAS and AD. Mark’s 20+ years of automotive experience includes competitive market analysis, forecasting, and consulting in the areas of automotive electronics and sensor applications in ADAS and automated driving, powertrain control, passenger safety, and vehicle information systems. Prior to joining TechInsights, Mark headed the Global Automotive Technology Group at S&P Global (IHS Markit) and was a Marketing Analyst for Stoneridge/Pollak, a Tier one automotive supplier of electronic sensors and switches. Mark holds a BS in Business Management from Providence College.
Matt Daley
Technical Director
Matt Daley
Matt Daley is Technical Director at rFpro – the leading simulation environment for the development and testing of ADAS, autonomous vehicles, vehicle dynamics and human factor studies. Matt’s career began in world championship-winning F1 teams where he honed his skill for applying fundamental engineering principles to solving important technology challenges. As part of rFpro’s expert team, he is enabling companies to use simulation in a wide variety of applications, from OEM vehicle dynamics to Tier1 sensor and system developments. Matt’s passion is to push the boundaries of simulation, ensuring rFpro is at the leading edge of modelling the real world.
Norman Koren
Founder & CTO
Norman Koren
Norman Koren became interested in photography while growing up near the George Eastman House photographic museum in Rochester, NY. He received his BA in physics from Brown University (1965) and his Masters in physics from Wayne State University (1969). He worked in the computer storage industry simulating digital magnetic recording systems and channels for disk and tape drives from 1967-2001. He founded Imatest LLC in 2003 to develop software and test charts to measure the quality of digital imaging systems.
Patrice Roulet-Fontani
Vice President, Technology and Co-Founder
Patrice Roulet-Fontani
Patrice is co-founder of Immervision where he leads the engineering team, contributes to IP growth and the adoption of Immervision’s technology by global corporations. He has overseen the integration of wide-angle imaging technology in numerous industry verticals. He is an IEEE Senior Member who has spoken at various conferences and co-authored multiple publications and patents and holds a master’s degree in image processing in computer graphics.
Paul George
World Wide Specialist - Autonomous Vehicles
Paul George
Paul is an accomplished product leader with over 14 years of experience in automotive technologies. He is adept at leading product management, go-to market, pre-sales, systems engineering and strategic partnership teams. He has incubated and launched several new sensing and perception products globally. He is currently a Sr. Specialist for Autonomous Vehicles at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Prior to AWS, Paul held various roles ranging from co-founder and managing director of a successful start-up to managing and leading new product development teams at Aptiv PLC and Xperi Corp. in Automated Driving and Cockpit Technology domains. Paul holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering and an MBA from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.”
Phil Magney
Founder and Principal Analyst
Pierrick Boulay
Senior Analyst - Automotive Semiconductor
Pierrick Boulay
Pierrick Boulay is Senior Technology & Market Analyst, Automotive Semiconductor at Yole Group.
He works in the fields of solid-state lighting and lighting systems, carrying out technical, economic, and marketing analyses. In addition, he leads the automotive activities within the company.
Pierrick has authored several reports and custom analyses on topics such as automotive lighting, LiDAR, sensing for ADAS vehicles, and VCSELs.
Professor Srinivas Peeta
Frederick R. Dickerson Chair & Professor
Professor Srinivas Peeta
Dr. Srinivas Peeta became the Frederick R. Dickerson Chair in Transportation Systems in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech in August 2018 after 24 years at Purdue University. Peeta has been the Director of the NEXTRANS Center, which served as the USDOT’s Region 5 Regional University Transportation Center (UTC) from 2007 to 2018. He is also the Associate Director of the USDOT Center for Connected and Automated Transportation, the USDOT Region 5 UTC (2016-2022) led by the University of Michigan. He received his B. Tech., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and The University of Texas at Austin, respectively. During 2007-2013, Dr. Peeta served as Chair of the Transportation Network Modeling Committee (ADB30) of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies, and as a member of the Travel Analysis Methods Section. He is a board member of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee on Transportation Systems.
Quentin Noir
Product manager
Quentin Noir
A few years after obtaining his engineering degree and starting his career, Quentin Noir wrote a professional thesis on “Value creation through ecosystems”, through which he specialized in innovation marketing. He started to work as an engineer, then as a product project manager for several French industrial players, and after several years of experience in platform development and innovation technologies, he is now a Product Manager at LYNRED. His responsibilities include the identification of markets’ innovation needs, including the automotive market’s, and finding ways to deliver and increase the value proposition of thermal imaging products.
Rafel Fors
LiDAR VP Regional Operations North America
Rafel Fors
Strategist and Business Developer with strong technical background and 15+ years of international experience in the high-tech industry leading multicultural teams and manage client relations in America, Europe and Asia
Robin Jenkin
Distinguished Engineer and Lead Imaging Scientist
Robin Jenkin
Robin Jenkin works at NVIDIA Corporation where he models image quality for autonomous vehicle applications. Robin received, BSc(Hons) Photographic and Electronic Imaging Science (1995) and his PhD (2001) in the field of image science from University of Westminster. He also holds a M.Res Computer Vision and Image Processing from University College London (1996). Robin is a Fellow of The Royal Photographic Society, UK, and a Senior Member SPIE. He is a Visiting Professor at University of Westminster within the Computer Vision and Imaging Technology Research Group.
Sergey Velichko
Senior Manager, ASD Technology and Product Strategy
Sergey Velichko
Sergey Velichko has been responsible for technology and product development for the Automotive Sensing Division at onsemi since 2007. He is a Senior IEEE Member. Previously, he has worked in various teaching and R&D positions at KPI, Micron Technology, and HP. He authored and co-authored more than 50 publications and over 70 issued and pending patents. His interests include intelligent sensor technology and strategic product development, novel imaging architectures, and innovations in imaging sensor designs.
Shan Bao
Associate Research Scientist
Shan Bao
Dr. Bao is a human factors researcher who has led and conducted multiple, large, simulator and naturalistic-driving studies for industry and government sponsors. Her areas of expertise include the statistical analysis of crash datasets and naturalistic data, vulnerable road user safety, experimental design, algorithm development to identify driver states and movement, evaluation of driving-safety technologies, measurement of driver performance, driver decision making, and statistical and stochastic modeling techniques. She has been invited to give multiple keynote speeches and served on expert panels at different conferences or meetings. She has also made technical presentations on scientific project results at many international conferences with a wide range of audiences. Dr. Bao is the author of the recent IEEE e-learning course of ‘Human Factors in Automated Vehicles”.
Shashank Dabral
Director Product Management, Autonomy
Shashank Dabral
Shashank is a seasoned industry leader with 21+ years of experience in the Semiconductor and Automotive industry. His career spans a broad range of topics including all aspects of product design from automotive OEM platform architecture to algorithm development, silicon IP architecture (targeting Image processing, computer vision and AI applications), as well as software development and applications. He has over 35 patents and has published multiple papers in international conferences and is on the advisory board of the Auto-Sens conference. In his current role, Shashank is the director of product management for Qualcomm’s ADAS SoCs and is responsible for the roadmap and execution of these devices. Prior to joining Qualcomm he was working as ADAS Platform Architect with Rivian Inc. where he was responsible for leading the architecture and sensor suite definition for multiple generation of Rivian ECU(s). Shashank also has a long career history working with TI focusing on Automotive Silicon and Systems with a keen interest on Image processing.
Srinivasa S Guntur
Sr Staff Functional Safety Engineer
Srinivasa S Guntur
Srinivasa S Guntur is Currently working for Rivian Automotive as a Sr Staff Functional Safety engineer. He has been part of Electrical Architecture group at Rivian. His professional interests are into electrification & smart sensor technologies especially in the field of safety of electrical design for Autonomous vehicle & sensor technologies.
Prior to Rivian, He worked for Honeywell international for more than 14 years and most recently he worked at their headquarter location Charlotte, NC. His Core expertise at Honeywell was designing safety critical products for Honeywell’s Life safety & Industrial safety business.
He Holds a master’s degree in Control systems & Instrumentation from JNTU Hyderabad, India.
Taufiq Rahman
Team Lead, Connected & Automated Vehicles
Taufiq Rahman
Taufiq Rahman leads the Connected & Automated Vehicles (CAV) Team at the National Research Council Canada (NRC). His current research focus includes multi-modal sensor fusion, robust perception systems, SLAM systems, C-V2X application development, driver intentionality prediction, and development of automated inspection systems for the railway industry.
Tiana May
Feature Writer
Tiana May
As a Feature Writer for Future Transport-News, Tiana covers news and updates related to a broad spectrum of modes and technologies that could help shape the future of transport globally. She is passionate about safe and sustainable mobility solutions and through her role at Future Transport-News, her content provides operators and manufacturers with the latest information on the sector and suppliers in the field.
Tommy Johansson
Perception Expert
Tommy Johansson
Tommy has been working with AD/ADAS for 18 years, both at OEM’s and T1’s and now lately at Kognic that is a tool supplier for the automotive industry, with experience in most of the disciplines along the development chain of an AD/ADAS system.
He has a special interest in tracking and data fusion algorithms and also functional safety.
Weisong Shi
Director, The CAR Lab
Weisong Shi
Weisong Shi is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware (UD), where he leads the Connected and Autonomous Research (CAR) Laboratory. Dr. Shi is the Center Director (Honorary) of a recently funded NSF eCAT NSF IUCRC Center, focusing on Electric, Connected, and Autonomous Technology for Mobility. He is an internationally renowned expert in edge computing, autonomous driving, and connected health. His pioneer paper, “Edge Computing: Vision and Challenges,” has been cited more than 6900 times. He is a fellow of IEEE.
Yonatan Dishon
Director of AI
Yonatan Dishon
Yonatan Dishon is a machine perception expert from Israel. Director of AI in Adasky Ltd, Yokneam, Israel. Determined to supply thermal based ADAS & AV features to improve safety and convenience of modern vehicles. Holds a M.Sc from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Yunteng Hueng
CEO
Yunteng Hueng
Dr. Yunteng Huang is the CEO of Aeonsemi Inc., a high-speed Ethernet PHY innovator based in Santa Clara, California. Prior to co-founding Aeonsemi in 2018, Yunteng was VP and General Manager at Silicon Labs responsible for Timing and High-Speed interface products. During his tenure at Silicon Labs, Yunteng also served in various other capacities in engineering and marketing for wireless IoT, automotive and consumer products. He is an inventor of 38 US patents and co-invented the foundational DSPLL technology.
Yunteng holds a BSEE from Shanghai Jiaotong University, a Ph.D from Oregon State University and MBA from the University of Pennsylvani