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.

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.

Robert Vets is the Director of Sensors for Cruise leading a team of over 200 engineers, scientists, and business professionals responsible for driving the development and commercialization of sensor components and the sense environment system for Cruise platforms.

Enda is responsible for defining the satellite camera product roadmap for surround and automated driving applications within Valeo. Valeo are a multinational Tier 1 automotive supplier with the site in Galway, Ireland leading the company innovation globally for 360° camera and computer vision solutions. Valeo’s vision systems are supplied globally to multiple OEM's across a wide portfolio of applications enabling the next generation driver assistance and automated driving solutions. Working for the last 16 years on automotive vision products, Enda has worked with the key technology experts across the supply chain and within OEMs to define optimal system architectures. Lecturing for a number of years in the areas of electronics and computing systems he later moved into industry, working in the biomedical space and ultimately automotive. He holds several patents in the area of automotive vision.

I have studied Physics at the University of Barcelona, with a master’s in Applied Physics and Material Science. After a short period in renewable energies, I moved to the Automotive industry, where I has been involved in several projects since then. Starting in 2002 I switched my interest to “Advanced Driver Assistance Systems” and “Autonomous Driving”, contributing to several technologies based on vision sensing as “lane recognition”, “object/vehicle detection”, “obstacle detection”, “free space recognition”, and lately in “VRU detection”, “ViDAR” and most recently in thermal imaging applications for AD/ADAS.

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.

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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.

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

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.

Prof. Dr. Abhinav Valada is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Robot Learning Lab at the Department of Computer Science and Cluster of Excellence BrainLinks-BrainTools at the University of Freiburg. He is also a core faculty in the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) unit at University of Freiburg. He received his PhD in Computer Science specializing in Robotics and Machine Learning from the University of Freiburg and subsequently worked as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist. He co-founded and served as the Director of Operations of Platypus LLC, a company developing autonomous robotic boats, and has previously worked at the National Robotics Engineering Center and the Field Robotics Center of Carnegie Mellon University. He received his MS in Robotics from The Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University and BTech in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from VIT University.

Dr. Duong-Van Nguyen is the 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.

Ariel Lasry joined Qualcomm in 2021 as Director, Technical Standards. For more than a decade, he has been actively engaged in standardization activities across multiple SDOs including the MIPI Alliance, where he has been an active contributor to multiple working groups since 2009. He currently serves as vice chair for the MIPI A-PHY Working Group. Prior to his role at Qualcomm, Ariel was Chief Engineer at Toshiba Electronics Europe in Düsseldorf, where he was responsible for strategic business planning and standardization, and represented Toshiba on the MIPI Alliance Board of Directors from 2012-2020.

Yuichi Motohashi received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical engineering from the Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. He joined Sony corporation, Tokyo, Japan, in 2008, where he worked for development and industrialization of CMOS image sensors, especially automotive applications. He is now responsible for the technical marketing at Automotive Semiconductor which as part of Sony Semiconductor Solutions Europe.

Dr. Mario Heid joined OmniVision Technologies in 2007, tasked with business development and technical marketing for the automotive image sensors. As global marketing head for the automotive products, he has been instrumental in steering OmniVision’s success in the automotive imaging industry. Since 2013, he has been heading the OmniVision Europe Operations as General Manager, while still actively engaged in the automotive imaging field. Dr. Heid started his career in the high-tech industry by developing ultra-fast optical switches for Siemens in the Optical Networks business unit, before moving onto managing the Siemens Mobile camera development team for several years. He received his Ph.D. from University of Würzburg for his research in femtosecond laser spectroscopy.

Marius Dupuis holds a diploma in Aerospace Engineering. Having started his career in engineering flight simulation, he became co-founder of VIRES Simulationstechnologie GmbH and grew the company to a leading provider of simulation solutions. Marius left VIRES in 2020 to work as an independent consultant. During that phase, he 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 which were transferred to ASAM e.V. in 2017/18. Following these standards and his personal interest in dynamic organizations, Marius joined ASAM in May 2022 as Chief Executive Officer.

Andres works as a Functional Safety Assessor in the central NXP team. In the past Andres has acted as a Safety Architect for radar front-end devices, and also as an applications engineer for automotive sensors. He has cross-functional experience in the semiconductor industry, dealing with MEMS and millimetric wave ICs.

Gideon Kedem heads Valens' Automotive Business team. He brings over 30 years of experience in the Semiconductor and EDA industry, serving in leading companies like Intel, Cadence and Xilinx. Prior to joining Valens, Gideon was managing sales and business development activities across EMEA, Israel and India, with revenue responsibilities exceeding $200M.

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.

Matt Daley is Operations Director at rFpro – the leading simulation environment for the development and testing of ADAS, autonomous vehicles, vehicle dynamics and human factor studies. His passion for his work encourages the team to push the boundaries of simulation, ensuring rFpro continually develops how the real world is modelled for its customers. Matt’s earlier career was spent within world championship-winning F1 teams, including Ferrari and McLaren, where he honed his skill for applying fundamental engineering principles to solving important technology challenges. As part of rFpro’s expert team, Matt has enabled companies to make use of simulation in a wide variety of applications, from OEM vehicle dynamics, Tier1 sensor and system developments, through to world leading motorsports championships.

A Fellow at Analog Devices. He has architected and designed mixed-signal SerDes with adaptive equalizers for automotive and storage applications. He invented and implemented GMSL’s real-time video watermark functional safety block. He was previously a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Vitesse Semiconductor, where he designed SerDes for SONET and storage applications. He was at MIT Lincoln Laboratory for nine years, where he designed and implemented multichannel deformable-mirror adaptive optics systems, digital radar receivers, and radar tracking systems for instrumentation radars. His current area of research is full-duplex low-power adaptive equalizers for automotive video links.

Erwan Piriou is graduated from IMT Atlantique on a PhD thesis aiming at estimating the contribution of high level modelling and synthesis to the design of a flexible architecture dedicated to block turbo-codes. In 2007, he joined the CEA LIST as a research engineer on topics dedicated to the study, design and implementation of innovative hardware accelerators for embedded vision processing systems. After several contributions on computing architectures for the automotive industry, he is now interested in issues related to multi-sensor embedded systems, in particular the implementation of efficient solutions (software/hardware) on heterogeneous and highly constrained architectures.

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.

Jean-Baptiste Laudereau is R&D Project leader at Saint-Gobain Research Paris, a transversal research and development center dedicated to all business units of Saint-Gobain. He received his PhD on biophotonics and medical imaging in 2016 during which he acquired a topmost expertise in optical imaging and wave propagation in complex media. He joined Saint-Gobain in 2017 working for automotive activities. Jean-Baptiste developed an extensive know-how of the optical behavior of windshield through the development of high performance characterization methods and innovative simulation methodologies. He is now devoting his expertise in free-form optics to a better understanding of ADAS optical systems specifications.

Marcus Dahlem received his Licenciatura degree in Applied Physics from the University of Porto in 2000, and his MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 2005 and 2011, respectively. He joined imec in 2018 as Principal Member of Technical Staff, and is currently managing the Optical 3D Sensing program. He has (co-)authored over 110 peer-reviewed publications. Prior to joining imec, he was an Associate Professor at the Khalifa University of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi. He also worked at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, and at the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto.

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.

Igal Bilik received B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, in 1997, 2003, and 2006, respectively. During 2006–2008, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Duke University. During 2008-2011, he has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. During 2011-2018, he was a Staff Researcher at GM RnD, leading automotive radar technology development. During 2018-2020 lead Smart Sensing and Vision Group at GM RnD. Currently Dr. Bilik is an Assistant Professor at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Dr. Bilik received the Best Student Paper Awards at IEEE RADAR 2005 and IEEE RADAR 2006 Conferences, Student Paper Award in the 2006 IEEE 24th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, and the GM Product Excellence Recognition in 2017.

Jan Aelterman is assistant professor at Ghent University and imec. His research interest is in application-specific challenges for image processing. He has built a 10+ year academic record in different application fields like MRI, CT, microscopy, consumer video, automotive perception … As part of the Image Processing and Interpretation (IPI) research group led by Autosens 2019 speaker prof. Wilfried Philips, he is currently involved with automotive-specific perception research using sensor fusion, video quality improvement, exposure fusion, machine learning and HDR-based analytics. He is also a co-author of the 2022 Autosens Academy Module on sensor fusion.

Since 2019, Oriel Frigo works on R&D in the field of AI and machine learning at AnotherBrain (Paris). In 2018, he was working with event-based computer vision R&D at Prophesee (Paris). In 2017 he did a postdoc at INRIA Rennes, working with Christine Guillemot on Light field editing. He received his PhD in 2016, on the topic of “Example guided video editing”, within a thesis agreement between Paris Descartes University and Technicolor. In July 2013, he completed the Master program "Color in Informatics and Media Technology" (CIMET). During this period, he has studied at Jean Monnet University (Saint-Etienne, France) and University of Eastern Finland (Joensuu, Finland). In 2010 he received the BSc degree in Computer Science from Santa Catarina State Univesity (Brazil).

Pierre Yves is a senior image quality engineer in DXOMARK’s camera team. He joined DXOMARK 5 years ago after he completed Masters in Engineering specializing in Optics and Photonics from the Institut d’Optique Graduate School in France. During this time he has overseen the tests of numerous sensors, lenses and smartphones at DXOMARK, using his expertise in Image Quality and the eye of a passionate photographer. He is also a key player in the development of our future camera test protocols, to keep up with ever improving camera technologies and diversifying use-cases.

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.

Beyond 11 years of international experience in a Japanese consumer electronics company, Yoshida cut her teeth as a roving reporter in Tokyo, Silicon Valley, Paris, New York and more lately in China to find exclusive/breaking stories and write incisive analysis. Her contacts and professional experiences are truly global and multi-cultural (and multi-lingual). Her focus has been in consumer electronics, automotive, semiconductors, in emerging technologies and intellectual property, with a working knowledge of how business strategies enable companies in these areas succeed and go global.

Matthias Schulze is Vice President, Europe and Asia at Algolux. Schulze, an ADAS veteran with over 25 years of management experience, most recently served as VP, Technology Management and Head of ADAS at Visteon. Prior to that, he spent over 29 years at Daimler AG holding various positions in ADAS and Autonomous Driving research and advanced engineering. Mr. Schulze has a long record of collaboration with the European Commission, the German Federal Ministries of Economics and Technology and of Education and Research, the Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport in Japan as well as the US DoT.

Christian Stöcklein serves as a field application engineer (FAE) for AEye, based in Germany. Prior to AEye, he was an FAE for LMI Technologies, where he specialized in software and hardware development for testing, validation, demonstration and evaluation of smart 3D sensors for factory automation. He also managed key OEM and Tier 1 customer relationships on a technical level, via training and application solving. Previously, Stöcklein was the co-founder and CTO of GelTouch Technologies, a hardware startup creating smart programmable haptics, where he oversaw R&D and prototyping.

Andreas Prinz is an automotive engineering leader with more than two decades of experience in Infotainment and ADAS systems. Prior to joining AEye, Prinz served as the director of customer programs for TTTech Auto in Munich, where he led a software task force of 180 people. Prior to that, he held director roles at both Magna Electronics and Harman, as well as various engineering roles at companies such as Continental Automotive Systems and Motorola.

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.

Omar Elzeiny is the Business Development manager for data-driven development tools and methodologies at dSPACE. His goal is to support development in autonomous driving with mature tools streamlining the data flow, and thus, saving development time and costs.

David Cheskis, PhD, serves as the Senior Product Director at TriEye Ltd. where he is responsible for new SWIR imaging products. Dr. Cheskis is an expert in semiconductor, optoelectronics and communications technologies, products and markets and started the first 6-inch GaAs VCSEL wafer foundry business in 2013. Since 1996, Dr. Cheskis has led the development of semiconductor and optical technologies and products for wireless, wireline and optical products at diverse sensing and communications companies including Lumentum, LeddarTech, IQE plc, II-VI Incorporated, ANADIGICS Inc, Oclaro Inc., Sarnoff Corporation, Jazz Semiconductor, Multilink Technology Corporation, and Vitesse Semiconductor. Dr. Cheskis earned PhD and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego and a BSEE degree in Microelectronic Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Farzad M.D. Inanlou is Automotive Business Unit CTO for Radar, Sensors, and mmWave systems at Global Foundries. Farzad joined GF from PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) where he managed a team of engineers and physicists working on mmWave imaging radars, and radar-cross-section-cooperative targets with frequency-selective surfaces, through concept, design, and implementation. Prior to PARC, Farzad worked at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he was a radar RF/Microwave/mmWave Design and Technology Development Lead and an Advanced Radar Concepts Principal Investigator. At JPL Farzad led the design of several radar subsystems on multiple projects including the NISAR flagship mission, a Tri-band (W, Ku, Ka) small-sat phased array system, and a 94-GHz planetary landing radar concept. Farzad has also held positions at Qualcomm and Boston Scientific. Dr. Inanlou earned his doctoral degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology where his thesis was on the development of innovative RF/mmW transceiver approaches, up to 94 GHz, both at the system level and at the MMIC level for advanced low power autonomous applications. While there, he was a President’s Fellow and an NSF Fellow, and also served as a principal lecturer for the “Circuits and Electronics” course. Farzad has published multiple research articles in refereed high-impact journals, presented papers at competitive international conferences and workshops, and is a reviewer for a number of major journals.

Hervé joined GEO Semiconductor in 2014 as Vice President of software development with responsibilities for ISP algorithms, image quality, and the full software stack. During his tenure GEO has developed three generations of camera video processors which are recognized for their market leadership in automotive image/video quality. Along with software and imaging Hervé has been instrumental in shaping the company’s compliance to automotive safety and security processes. Over his career he has over 25 years of digital video processing experience having delivered products in professional broadcast, consumer and automotive markets. Hervé holds an engineering diploma from the “Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (Télécom Paris)”.

Dr. Vinit Dhulla is a Deputy Director of Product Management at GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF), focusing on optical imaging and sensing technologies for all end markets. Before GF, Vinit spent over 13 years at Voxtel-Inc in various roles, leading the development of LiDAR sensor technology, receiver products, and LiDAR demo systems. Vinit also managed numerous Small Business Innovation Research programs as Principal Investigator and Program Manager. Voxtel-Inc was acquired by Allegro Microsystems in 2020. At Allegro, Vinit led a cross-functional engineering team developing lidar sensors and demo systems for automotive market, before joining GF in 2021. Vinit holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stony Brook University.

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.

Dr Vidhya Sridhar leads the autonomous technologies team at TTP, Europe’s leading technology and product development company. TTP works with ambitious clients to invent, design, and develop disruptive technology enablers for safe and secure autonomy on the ground, air and in space. Vidhya is an engineer with a background in digital signal processing and communications and is deeply involved in business development activities for TTP in the sectors of autonomous vehicles, UAVs and space sustainability.

WASEEM SHARIFF received his undergraduate degree in computer science from Nagarjuna College of Engineering and Technology (India) in 2019 and his master’s degree in computer science, specializing in artificial intelligence from National University of Ireland Galway (Ireland) in 2020. He is associated with Heliaus (thermal vision augmented awareness) project. He is currently pursuing his PhD degree at NUIG, funded by Irish Research Council and Xperi, under the Employment based PhD Program. He is currently researching on “Out-cabin and In-Cabin Cognition, Wellbeing & Non-contact Health Analytics for Drivers & Occupants”

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.

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Gonen Barkan is the Chief Radar Officer at Arbe, where he oversees the technological strategy and leads product specifications and R&D execution to drive Arbe’s innovative solution and the radar industry toward market success. Prior to joining Arbe, Barkan served as the General Motors Radar Lead, where he directed a global team responsible for radar development and technology across GM. In his role, Barkan was responsible for all aspects of radar technology development, radar product development and radar integration into GM vehicles – focusing on future retail-autonomy programs (future SuperCruise, UltraCruise and beyond).

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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 since 2016. That experience includes productizing Texas Instruments’ first RFCMOS devices, and he is now responsible for the business development of Ambarella’s Oculii™ radar technology. Paul graduated from the University of Cincinnati with Masters degrees in Digital Design and Business Administration. He is most passionate about enabling high performance imaging radar to create a safer autonomous future for society.

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. Letizia Mariotti is a Senior Computer Vision Engineer in Provizio. Letizia has been working as a computer vision engineer in the automotive industry since 2017, first in Valeo Vision Systems and since 2021 as a member of Provizio. Her background includes studies in Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Trieste (Italy), after which she achieved her PhD in Physics from the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 2017.

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.

With 13+ years of experience in signal processing, Santhana Raj is in charge of the Radar program in PathPartner. His contribution to radar algorithm development has been phenomenal to the Radar SDK solution that PathPartner offers. His contribution toward optimized implementation of different Radar processing algorithms like DoA, Clustering, and classification with the knowledge of real-world problems has been significant in all the projects the company has handled.

Dr. Dongjae Shin is a principal researcher at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, and is currently working on silicon photonics to leverage the silicon infrastructure of Samsung for emerging applications. Since 2002, he has been with Samsung for silicon photonics and optical communication R&D. Prior to Samsung, he was with Bell Labs, NJ for optical crossconnect R&D. He has two decades of industrial R&D experiences with 1 book, 75+ papers, and 125+ patents.

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.

Muhammad Ali Farooq is working as a researcher and professional engineer in the consumer electronics industry for more than three years. He has received B.E. degree in electronic engineering in 2012, and M.S. degree in electrical control engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), in 2017. He has recently defended his Ph.D. in the field of electrical and electronic engineering and has worked on the ‘Evaluation of Thermal Imaging Technology for Automotive Use Cases’ with the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG). His core research interests include machine vision, computer vision, edge computing, video analytics, and sensor fusion. He has won the prestigious H2020 European Union (EU) Scholarship and currently working as a Postdoctoral researcher with the National University of Ireland and Xperi Corporation.

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.

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Adrian Bertl studied media technology at the FH Deggendorf, with the main emphasis on media computer science. He joined b-plus in 2009 and held various positions including product management and marketing. He is now team leader for technology-driven product marketing for development tools for automated driving, including a toolbox for developing autonomous and automated driving functions.

Filip Geuens (°1970) is CEO of XenomatiX, a Belgium-based tier II automotive supplier, provider of true solid state lidar technology. Filip spent his entire career in optical metrology.He started as the 7th employee at a company called Krypton, developing optical coordinate measuring machines. The company was acquired by Metris which was later bought by Nikon, evolving from 70, to 700 and finally to 27.000 employees. In his previous role Filip was CTO of Nikon Metrology, one of the 6 business units of Nikon. That business unit is developing optical 3D inspection systems for quality control in automotive and aerospace. Early 2015 Filip decides to leave Nikon to build and grow XenomatiX. His past experience in optical systems and automotive business allowed him to appreciate the technology XenomatiX started developing in 2012. Today, the company employees around 30 people in Belgium, Germany, China and the US, and has built solid partnership with key automotive players.

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Donald Peyrot graduated Physics Ph.D. from Université Laval (Québec, Canada) in 2006. The main topics of research were related to optical materials and holography. He later worked 6 years in France in different fields of biomedical optics before to join the ELI-Beamlines project in the Czech Republic in 2013. Finally, recruited by Valeo in 2016, he has been able to use his knowledge for the Automotive Industry, he placed more than 50 patent applications related to camera systems, LIDARs or rain sensors. Donald Peyrot acquired the title of Valeo Expert in the field of Physics Optics in 2019.

Wilfried Philips is a senior full professor at Ghent University, where he leads the Image on Processing and Interpretation (IPI) research group and the research consortium iKnow, which has realized 9 spin off companies. At imec, he is scientific lead of the Center of Excellence on Image Processing and Sensor Fusion. He is co-founder of the IoT company Senso2Me. He is senior member of IEEE and fellow of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation. Wilfried Philips's and IPI’s research interests relate to image real-time computer vision and fusion of “rich” sensor data (radar/video/LiDaR/thermal/hyperspectral), with a strong focus on industrial applications. IPI has founded three spin off companies. It has also created ""Quasar,"" a brand new high-performance GPU-programming solution that offers greatly reduced development time.

Son Tong is a senior research engineer and project manager at Siemens Digital Industries Software. He obtained Ph.D. degree from KULeuven in control systems. He is currently managing a R&D team of industrial PhDs and research engineers working on autonomous driving engineering topics. Son is actively involved in Siemens ADAS R&D and EU-Belgian research schemes, and was awarded Siemens PL Invention of the Year Award. He has delivered invited talks in both universities (Oxford, Tokyo, EPFL...) and industrial events (ADAS&AV Tech Expo, Autosens, JSAE...), and also serves in the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Youngkyung Park is a leader of Vision AI Unit at LG Electronics. He was also a project leader of ADAS front camera project from 2017 to 2021. Now, He has 10+ years’ experience in ADAS camera development including project management, perception development and application development. Currently, he and his team focus on developing robust perception algorithms and those applications for automotive cameras. He holds a PhD in computer vision from Sungkyunkwan University.

Dong Chen is the General Manager at Zongmu Germany, he holds master’s degree in electrical engineering and an MBA. He has extensive knowledge in developing near range sensing solutions for the L2 -L4 parking applications including sensor hardware, software, and algorithms. At the meantime he is acting as business development manager to explore business opportunities for company’s ADAS system and sensor products in the European market.

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Javier Salado is Technical Product Manager at Anyverse. He has over 30 years of experience in software development and systems integration, highlighting his time at HP and more recently at Samsung Research where he applied his experience in deep learning-related projects. He is Anyverse's product technical expert and point of contact for applications such as sensor simulation or deep learning training using advanced hyperspectral synthetic data.

Joseph Notaro is an accomplished technology industry executive with 30+ years of experience in the automotive semiconductor market. He has successfully lead R&D, business / market development, strategy, and worldwide sales organizations. He has extensive international experience across the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe. Currently, Joseph is the Chief Commercial Officer at Baraja, a global LiDAR technology company with HQ in Australia. In this role, he leads the Sales, Business Development, Marketing, and Customer Success groups responsible for commercializing the Spectrum-ScanTM platform and increasing engagements with various automotive tier1, ecosystem and OEM partners. Prior to joining Baraja, Joseph has held various management and executive positions in onsemi, Fairchild, and STMicroelectronics.

I have been at Cruise for almost 4.5 years now. Before that I worked in the EDA industry for 6 years. I then decided to work on challenging problems around the AV industry and use ML solutions for Perception algorithms. Currently I am an engineering manager within Cruise AI, bringing up our Perception stack to the next-generation of sensors for our future platforms.

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.

Dr Geir Ostrem is responsible for automotive cabin experience technology strategy at Analog Devices. He has been with Analog Devices, and previously Maxim Integrated, for more than 20 years in various IC design and engineering management roles. He has been focused on RF and high-speed physical layer ICs, primarily for communications infrastructure and for automotive video transport. He was awarded the title of Maxim Fellow in 2015, and Analog Devices Fellow in 2021.

Since 2022, Dr. Felix Mederer is the Head of Electronics and Software at Scantinel Photonics, a solid state FMCW Lidar supplier for automotive and industrial applications located in Ulm (Germany). He received his Dr.-Ing. degree from the University of Ulm (Germany), in the research area of VCSELs and their use in optical interconnect applications. 2005 Dr. Mederer jointed Nokia Mobile Phones and moved 2015 to Continental Business Unit ADAS. He worked in various position including Head of Functional-Safety & Cyber-Security Management and Senior Security Expert. As key expert for Security, he developed and introduced the new area of Automotive Security including technologies and processes. Dr. Mederer is also a guest lecturer for Automotive Cyber-Security at the Ulm University of Applied Sciences (Germany).