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.

M. Cristina Galassi is a Scientific Project Officer of the Sustainable Transport Unit at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC). She is leading JRC activities on the development of the new EU and UN Type Approval Framework for Automated Vehicles, with focus on safety requirements and validation. She studied Aerospace Engineering and received her PhD in Nuclear and Industrial Safety from the University of Pisa.

Work experience09/2021 – to dateRadSee Technologies 2021 – to date COO Responsible for Operations, Marketing, Account management, Finance & HR 09/2014 – 08/2021Orbotech – A KLA Company 2019 – 08/2021 VP, PCB Customer Service 2017 – 2019 VP, Customer Service, Billerica MA, US 2014 – 2017 VP, Planning & Manufacturing 02/2002 – 08/2014Applied Materials Israel 2011 – 2014 Director, PDC Engineering 2008 – 2011 CPS Europe Regional Manager 2005 – 2008 Facilities Manager 2003 – 2005 Spares Planning Manager 2002 – 2003 Manufacturing Group Leader 2000 – 2002 Intel F17 Hudson, MA US (AMCG USA) Project Manager, Manufacturing Engineering (ME) Department 1998 – 2000 AVIV Management and Engineering Engineering and Consultancy firm, Semiconductors industry. Project Manager, Manufacturing Engineering (ME) Education 1995-1998 Ben Gurion University Beer Sheva, Israel, BSc, Industrial Engineering Specialised in Production Processes, Work study, Automation and Ergonomics Military ExperienceMajor in IDF reserves

Sergey Velichko is responsible for technology and product development for the Automotive Sensing Division at onsemi since 2007. He has worked before in various teaching and R&D positions at the KPI, Micron Technology, and HP. He authored and co-authored more than 50 publications and 45 issued and pending patents. His interests include intelligent sensor technology and product strategic development, novel imaging pixel architectures, and innovations in imaging sensor designs. He is a Senior IEEE Member.

Dr Laurent Chanas has been working in image quality assessment and improvement for more the 20 years. He is now head of the image quality assessment solution, named Analyzer, at DXOMARK IMAGE LABS. Previously Laurent worked at DXO Labs, developing image processing algorithms (several international patents) and managed the test and measurement laboratory. Laurent holds a master’s degree from “Ecole Nationale de l’Electronique et ses Applications” as well as a PhD thesis in Image Processing.

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. Prior to joining Imatest, he was the leader of image quality in Google’s Android organization from 2015 to 2021, particularly focused on the Google Pixel camera and display image quality. His experience in Silicon Valley has also included managing the camera image quality lab at NVIDIA, where his work centered on optimizing the Tegra chip ISP for smartphone cameras from 2012 to 2015. Jonathan worked at Kodak from 1990 to 2012 as a key player in the photography transition from analog to digital, switching from processing in the darkroom to working on digital imaging devices and printers. Kodak sponsored his Master’s and PhD work in color science at Rochester Institute of Technology’s Munsell Color Science Laboratory.

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 Dentel is a Senior Technical Product Manager at Ambarella focusing on radar systems. He has been working with frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar systems for the majority of his career, including productizing the first 77GHz RFCMOS devices. Paul graduated from the University of Cincinnati with Masters degrees in Digital Design and Business Administration. He is currently responsible for the business development of Ambarella’s Oculii™ radar technology. He is most passionate about enabling high performance imaging radar to create a safer autonomous future for society.

After starting his career at BMW in 2007, Armin joined AVL Software & Functions in 2011 being responsible for Vehicle and Hybrid Controls Software. From 2015 to 2018, he led the ADAS / AD Controls and Software Department at AVL before joining Zenuity from 2018 to 2020. Since June 2020, Armin is back at AVL, taking over the Product Management for DGT Perception Software and managing the newly founded AVL Sensor Lab at Roding/Bavaria.