Tony Gioutsos

Mr Gioutsos has been involved with Automotive safety systems since 1990. As Director of Electronics R&D for both Takata and Breed Technologies he was at the forefront of the safety revolution. His cutting edge work on passive safety algorithm design and testing led him to start the first Automotive Algorithm company in 1992. After receiving both his BSEE and MSEE (specializing in Communications and Signal Processing) from the University of Michigan, Mr Gioutsos worked on Satellites and Radar Imaging for Defense applications before joining Takata. He has been a consultant for various companies in areas such as Biomedical applications, gaming software, legal expert advisory, and numerous automotive systems. Mr Gioutsos is currently “Director Portfolio Development for Autonomous Americas” for Siemens PLM where he has continued to define active safety algorithm testing requirements as well as working on various other state-of-the-art approaches to enhance automated and connected car robustness. He has been awarded over 20 patents and presented over 100 technical papers.