Technical experts represent our high-level Advisory Board for AutoSens
AutoSens conferences are curated by a team of technical experts, representative of the full supply chain from OEMs to academia, and market tested with engineers to ensure each agenda is current and relevant for the audience.


Senior Research Engineer,
Valeo Vision Systems


Senior Video Camera Engineer,
Ford Motor Company

BOM Family Owner of Viewing Systems,
General Motors
Dr. Wende Zhang research interests include Perception and Sensing for Automated Driving, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Security, and Robotics. As BFO of viewing systems, he transferred his research innovation into multiple industry-first applications, such as Rear Camera Mirror (Named 2015 Popular Science ‘Best of What’s New’ award winner and 2016 Best New Safety Technology) and Video Trigger Recording on MY16 Cadillac CT6, Front Curb Camera System on MY 16 Chevrolet Corvette. Wende Zhang was the technical lead on computer vision and the embedded researcher in the GM-CMU autonomous driving team that won the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007. He has 80+ US patent applications and 30+ publications in sensing and viewing systems for automated driving and active safety.

Senior Manager – Core Camera Engineering,
Magna Electronics


Director of Engineering / Business Development, Vision & Imaging Engineer,
Texas Instruments


Vice President & General Manager
GEO Semiconductor


CEO & Co-Founder,
Innoviz Technologies


Manager – Camera Technology,
Continental


Founder,
Harvest Imaging
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Managing Director,
SmartSurv


Systems Architech,
Bosch
Education:
- Diploma in Applied Physics from Frankfurt University (Topics: Complex Systems and Neural Networks applied to Image Processing tasks)
- MPhil in Electrical Engineering from University of Manchester (Topics: Vision Chips and Computer Vision Algorithms)
- PhD in Physics from Heidelberg University (Topics: Computer Vision Algorithms for video based ADAS Systems)
- In Cooperation with Robert Bosch GmbH
Professional Life:
- Software engineer for video based ADAS Systems
- Focus towards the hardware-software interface and the control software for Imagers, ISPs and Safety (ISO26262, Automotive Spice)
- Since 2014:
- Software architect for optical systems in the predevelopment for Bosch’s next generation video systems
Current Work:
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- System Design with focus on Optics, Imager and ISP for next generation video based ADAS Systems.
- KPI development (also in the public with Bosch’s engagement in the IEEE P2020 Working group)


Director,
AMX13


Professor,
University of Applied Sciences Ulm


Managing Partner,
Woodside Capital Partners
Rudy is the Managing Partner of Woodside Capital Partners and works with growth stage technology companies to execute local and cross-border M&A transactions and private placements. Prior to founding WCP, he led Scipher plc through a corporate restructuring as CEO. His professional experience also includes executive roles with NEC, Visioneer and Xerox as well as founding the MIT Media Lab Europe joint venture with the Irish government. He currently serves on the boards of two UK companies, Bango plc (AIM:BGO) and Seeing Machines plc (AIM: SEE).
Rudy holds degrees from Yale (BSc and MSc in EE) and Cambridge (PhD in Digital Imaging).


Director, Connaught Automotive Research (CAR) Group,
NUI Galway
He has worked for over 17 years in collaboration with local industry in the area of digital signal processing for automotive and biomedical applications. He currently has a number of MEngSc, PhD and Postdoctoral researchers working in the areas of signal processing and embedded systems for biomedical and automotive applications. He has received funding recently from local industry and from Enterprise Ireland under the Innovations Partnerships and Proof of Concept schemes, and is also a Science Foundation Ireland funded investigator under the IvP Scheme. He has published 60 peer reviewed journal papers and more than 80 peer reviewed conference papers.

Senior Hardware Expert,
Daimler


Vice President,
imageNEXT


Group Leader for Active Safety, ADAS
Jaguar Landrover


Head of Safe Car,
SBD


Intel Fellow
Functional Safety,
Intel
Riccardo has worked for many years on the specification and design of ICs and IPs for safety critical systems in automotive, industrial, medical and railway applications. He is an active member of international committees for functional safety: in ISO 26262, he is leading the chapter about “ISO 26262 and microcontrollers. Riccardo is IEEE member and he has authored many papers related to High-Reliability Circuits, Design for Testability and Asynchronous Circuits.


Technical Lead,
Panasonic Automotive Systems
He has also served as Reviewer and Member of Technical Program Committees for a number of IEEE conferences (IV’14, ICIEV’14, IROS’13, IV’13, ICIEV’13, ICVES’12, etc.). He acted as Session Chair for a number of conferences (IEEE ITSC 2015, IEEE ICMA’12, IEEE CSAE’11, CGIM-2010, etc) and has published 1 book, 1 book chapter, 3 top-tier journals and 17 international conferences in Robotics and Computer Vision.


Safety Programme Manager,
Zenuity
In 2001 Dr Sivencrona received a research grant from Honeywell to work on improving and validating the time triggered architecture. Håkan has also worked some years for SP Swedish test and research institute where he worked in several research projects around dependable communication and architectures. 2005 Håkan joined Mecel, where he worked as an international expert in ISO 26262 and Autosar standardization.
After a few years Håkan joined QAMCOM, a high tech company focusing on radar, signal processing and safety. During this time he was a contractor working for major OEMs and Tier 1s. In2013 he started to work with Delphi E&S where he has since then been working as a Functional Safety Manger for several ADAS production projects. Håkan still maintains his interest for ISO 26262 although he has moved much more into ADAS and autonomous driving area in the recent years. Håkan drives a Volvo V70 with AEBS and ACC and really likes these applications.


Principal Analyst,
Vision Systems Intelligence
As an automotive analyst and consultant Phil provides clients with pragmatic insight on the current and future of technology deployment in automotive. Phil’s subject matter expertise includes both automotive and information technology.
In 2000, Phil co-founded the Telematics Research Group (TRG) to provide syndicated and custom market intelligence to the Automotive Industry. TRG was acquired in 2008 by iSuppli (LA) where Phil led the newly formed automotive practice focusing on automotive electronics for Infotainment and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). In 2011, iSuppli was acquired by IHS where Phil led the Automotive Technology Group within IHS Automotive.
Earlier in his career Phil co-founded Associated Research Services (Dallas) as a provider of business intelligence to the mobile computing industry. This company was the first of its kind to utilize the internet to deliver real-time industry intelligence. ARS was sold in 2000 to Current Analysis.


Founder and CEO,
PercepTonic


VP Marketing,
Videantis


Professor of Physics,
Duesseldorf University of Applied Science


Senior Research Engineer,
Hyundai Autron
In 2006, He earned his MS degree in Mechanical and Control Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. After graduation and returning back home to Republic of Korea, he devoted himself in developing line scan cameras, optical inspection units and other imaging equipments at Samsung Electronics for nearly 7 years, before joining Hyundai Autron.
The Advisory Board continues to grow, demonstrating the support for AutoSens from the length and breadth of the supply chain. If you are interested to join, please get in touch.
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