At Rivian, Abdullah leads development of cutting-edge sensors for ADAS and Autonomy applications. His team is responsible for the design, signal processing, vehicle packaging, and compute/network architecture for both exterior and in-cabin sensors. This work ensures that Rivian’s vehicles are equipped with the most advanced technology, enhancing safety and the overall driving experience.
Before joining Rivian, Abdullah made significant contributions to the field of autonomous vehicles by leading the development of multiple sensor technologies at Lyft’s self-driving division. Additionally, he led engineering for long-range imaging radars at Metawave a technology that enables perception for L4 robotaxis and Autonomous trucks. Previously, he worked on wireless technologies at Qualcomm and was part of the team that enabled the first 5G deployment.

Mr. Abhay Rai, Executive Vice President and General Manager of indie Semiconductor’s Vision business unit, is responsible for developing embedded vision processing, perception and sensor fusion solutions for automotive applications. Mr. Rai has been a leader in expanding the Company’s sensing portfolio through accelerated internal development and inorganic growth. Prior to joining indie in January 2021, Mr. Rai was the Global Vice President of Product Marketing for Visteon, responsible for new product development, introduction, and expansion into the automotive electronics and electrification market. In 2017, he was Head of Automotive Sensor Marketing for Sony, and before that held the position of Director of Sales and Product Marketing for Automotive Imaging. While at Sony, Mr. Rai was pivotal in forging new paths for the Company within the automotive industry, and is especially noted for several design wins for camera solutions in ADAS and automated driving vehicle platforms. Before that, Mr. Rai held various roles within Aptina, which was acquired by Onsemi in 2014. He went on to establish market leadership for the company as the head of Technical Marketing and Solution Architecture for Automotive Image Sensing. Mr. Rai earned his MSEE from Colorado State University and an Executive MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. Mr. Rai has lived and worked in five different countries and holds nine global patents.

Ann Mutschler is executive editor for EDA at Semiconductor Engineering. She has been an editor and journalist since 1992, focused on technology, and the semiconductor industry with an overall perspective of automotive, system-level design, and power/performance challenges and trends. Her previous experience includes a long stint as a Senior Editor at Reed Business Information for publications including EDN, Electronic News and Electronic Business.

Arthur Duhamel was born in Rouen, France in 1991. He graduated at the Institute of Electronics and Digital Engineering (ISEN) in Lille (France) in 2016 with an engineering degree in embedded electronics. In January 2017 he joined Melexis inside the OPTO business unit as Applications Engineer for Time of Flight sensors. Inside Melexis’ Time of Flight engineering team he is supporting customers developing ToF cameras systems based on Melexis ToF sensors. Richard Conroy : TBD

Based in Cepton’s Detroit office, Mr. Moretti oversees Cepton’s ongoing product development to drive business growth across automotive and smart infrastructure markets. He holds Master’s degrees from the University of Michigan and the University of Indiana in Energy Systems Engineering and Business Administration, respectively.

Byron is the leading expert and primary inventor of Ground Positioning Radar. He is a cofounder and CTO of GPR where he leads technical development internally and with the company’s industry partners. He has been building robots, developing sensors, and automating vehicles for over 25 years, including automating several military vehicles that were deployed in Afghanistan. As lead of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory program that invented the GPR technology, he captained the development and testing of this novel safety system. He holds a range of technology patents and has won an R&D 100 award as one of the top inventors worldwide. Byron has engineering SM and SB degrees from MIT.

Mr. Christian Liebl joint Continental in August 2016 as an electrical engineer developing automotive display solutions incorporating touch displays and SerDes links. In parallel he finished his master studies in electrical engineering and high frequency technology at University of Applied Sciences in Regensburg, Germany. In 2019 he took over the responsibilities of the EE development of a high-definition touch display as technical project leader EE. Since 2022 he is part of the In-Vehicle Networks team within Continental Automotive Technologies. This predevelopment group focuses on the development, evaluation, and standardization of high-speed data network communication systems for future cars.

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.

Clément Nouvel is LiDAR Technical Director 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 was Valeo Active Safety Business Development Director and held several positions at Renault-Nissan Alliance focused on innovation engineering and project management, based in France and Asia. He is currently in charge of 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.

With over 25 years of experience in the Semiconductor industry having held senior technical roles at NVidia, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and others, Mr. Fritz is the Vice President of Hybrid and Virtual Systems leading the global autonomous IC and validation initiative at Siemens EDA. Mr. Fritz brings innovation of fast-moving Silicon Valley companies to the Siemens EDA team by applying transformative technologies to the challenges of autonomous and connected vehicles.

David is responsible for developing and executing strategic plans to achieve sales targets within the Industrial & Automotive market for smartmicro GmbH. David leverages his extensive experience in wireless, radar and the automotive sectors to identify industry trends to inform both the go to market sales strategy and provide input to product marketing regarding product roadmaps focused on the needs of the Industrial and Automotive markets.

Daniel Morris is an Associate Professor at Michigan State University with a joint appointment in Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering and in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He leads the 3D Vision Lab which seeks to leverage artificial intelligence to build multi-modality automated sensing for automotive and agricultural applications. His work focuses on multi-sensor fusion including color, lidar, Doppler radar and depth sensors.

Dr. Kevin Lu is VP of Product Lines and General Manager of Zongmu Technology. He is a veteran of automotive ADAS technologies with 17 years of direct experience in automotive camera systems and 35+ years of R&D and industrialization of cameras, optical imaging and machine vision applications. A prolific innovator with 110+ issued patents and awards including 2018 Automotive PACE Award, he is instrumental in designing and introducing to mass market some of the industry-first ADAS products.

Paul F. McManamon (S’67–M’77–SM’95–F’09) received the Ph.D. degree in physics from The Ohio State University, Columbus, in 1977.,He is an independent consultant and works part-time as the Technical Director of the Ladar and Optical Communications Institute, LOCI, at the University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. He worked at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH, from 1968 to 2008. His primary work with the Air Force Research Laboratory was in electrooptical sensors. He was Chief Scientist for the Avionics Directorate, Wright Lab, for more than two-and-a-half years. He was a Senior Scientist for infrared sensors for five years. He was Chief Scientist of the Sensors Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, from June 2005 to May 2008.,Dr. McManamon was on the SPIE Board of Directors for seven years and on the SPIE Executive Committee from 2003 through 2007. He was the President of SPIE in 2006. He was primary author of “Optical Phased Array Technology,” which received the IEEE W. R. J. Baker Award for the best paper in any IEEE refereed journal or Transactions. He is a Fellow of SPIE, OSA, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the Military Sensing Symposia, MSS.

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.

Since joining TTP, he has worked on the mechanical integration of novel optical systems for autonomous vehicles with ambitious start-ups and multinational corporations. As well as the mechanical design of complex systems from diagnostics machines for life science applications to lasers suitable for HUDs. Ewan’s interests include numerical modelling of complex vibrational systems and novel materials. Ewan holds a master’s degree in engineering from the University of Cambridge.

Farzad M.D. Inanlou leads the Automotive smart sensors business at GlobalFoundries. 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.

Frank Schirrmeister is vice president of solutions and business development at Arteris IP. He leads 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.

Gordon Cooper is Product Manager for Synopsys’ AI/ML processor products. Gordon brings more than 20 years of experience in digital design, field applications and marketing at Raytheon, Analog Devices, and NXP to the role. Gordon also served as a Commanding Officer in the US Army Reserve, including a tour in Kosovo. Gordon holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University

Dr Håkan Sivencrona has worked with safety related applications for automotive since early in the 20th. He has been an international expert in both ISO 26262 and ISO 21448 (Sotif) as well as in TS5083. He is one of the fathers of SEooC concept and SOTIF. He is currently the chief safety manager at ZENSEACT a VOLVO cars subsidiary and working with their strategies for mastering highly autonomous vehicles.

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.

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.

Senior expert Level in multiple disciplines of component functional ownership, from defining requirements to leading ADAS Components to SOP with a proven history of working in the field of advance driving assistant systems. Worked as functional owner of the Lidar Object detection function and Lidar supporting functions. Currently Project Leader for the Lidar Sensor, as Major Part of the Mercedes Benz Level 3 Drive Pilot System.

With his extensive electrical and biomedical engineering background, Kyle Troutt is a dedicated leader of Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America’s Filament Labs Advanced Intelligent Cabin Solutions-Connected Vehicles team. With nearly a decade of experience in the automotive industry, Troutt is on a mission to revolutionize driver and passenger experiences. He works tirelessly to improve safety, the interaction between vehicle occupants and machines, and comfortability within connected vehicles. Troutt holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering from Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan.

Laura Shane has spent 4 years designing and testing sensor suites for autonomous long haul trucks as Kodiak Robotics’ Head of Sensors. Prior to joining Kodiak, Laura spent several years designing electric propulsion systems for EVTOL aircraft at KittyHawk. Laura graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering, focusing in mechatronics.

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.

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.

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.

Matt Last is the Director of Product at Aeva, a leader in next-generation sensing and perception systems. Within his role, Matt is responsible for leading the product development process for Aeva’s unique FMCW 4D LiDAR technology used in automotive applications and beyond. Throughout his career Matt has developed sensing technologies for Waymo and Apple, and has led high-performing engineering teams through the product development process, resulting in successful launches of multiple products with volumes ranging from 100s per year to 100s of millions per year. Matt holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Mrinal Sood – AEye Director of Technical Marketing Mrinal has more than a decade of automotive electronics design, manufacturing, vehicle integration, and go-to-market experience. In the last 6 years his focus has been on bringing complex optronics out of the lab and into the real world. Prior to AEye, he led technical sales and marketing at Innoviz and Sense Photonics, where he created their go-to-market strategy for lasers, receivers, and lidar products across automotive, smart cities, and off-highway markets. In the past, Mrinal designed and validated products within the powertrain, telematics, and ADAS divisions at Continental Automotive. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois in Chicago.

Dr, Neil Poole currently holds the position of Chemistry Fellow, working in Henkel’s Automotive Electronics Materials Application Engineering Group. He is responsible for supporting all of Henkel’s electronics materials product portfolio, specializing in working with key global customers. Neil graduated with his B.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Since then, he has held a variety of positions both in the general chemicals R& D gaining several patents. For the last 30 years he has been working with electronic materials, he has authored multiple papers on such diverse topics as heterogeneous catalysis, PCB cleaning, printing surface mount adhesives, solder joint reliability and underfills.

Additional co-speaker Brianna Braham is an Application Engineer in Henkel’s Automotive Electronics division. She began her career in July 2020 in Henkel’s PRISM Rotational Program for the industry’s top talent and has since specialized in ADAS and e-Mobility material solutions. Prior to joining Henkel, Brianna earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from West Virginia University.

Niyant Patel is Director, Field Applications Engineering at Elmos North America. He has over 17 years of experience with automotive electronics and integrated circuit development. In his current role he is responsible for product alignment and technical support of North American automotive Tier 1 and OEM market. Niyant has held roles in automotive electronics development focused on passive safety sensors and ASIC development at TRW (now ZF) as well as at Intersil (now Renesas) focused on high speed SerDes, surround and backup view video processors as well as battery cell management products. Niyant graduated from University of Detroit Mercy with Master’s degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering with focus on autonomous vehicles and mobile robotics systems. He also actively contributes in academia as a Board Member with the University of Detroit Mercy’s Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering department.

Partha Goswami has over 30 years of experience in the automotive industry, with a background spanning product development, R&D, planning and a variety of business assignments in brand strategy and capital management. As senior manager of technology insight in Global Product Planning, he is responsible for identifying evolving technology trends, exploring future implications and cascading recommendations to leadership within the company. Mr. Goswami speaks at industry forums on emerging trends and future of automotive industry. In addition to chairing SAE’s Vehicle IoT (VIoT) working committee, he is also engaged in advisory capacities with organizations like LA Automobility, IQPC, George Washington University etc. He holds a Ph.D. Applied Mechanics from Iowa State University, an MBA from University of Michigan and has a certification as foresight professional from University of Houston.

Patrick has in excess of 25 years experience in scientific and technological development internationally, 19 of these at a senior level, designing, leading, innovating and consulting on new technologies with multimillion Euro project budgets.

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.

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.”

Prof. Philip Koopman is an internationally recognized expert on Autonomous Vehicle (AV) safety whose work in that area spans over 25 years. He is also actively involved with AV policy and standards as well as more general embedded system design and software quality. His pioneering research work includes software robustness testing and run time monitoring of autonomous systems to identify how they break and how to fix them. He has extensive experience in software safety and software quality across numerous transportation, industrial, and defense application domains including conventional automotive software and hardware systems. He was the principal technical contributor to the UL 4600 standard for autonomous system safety issued in 2020. He is a faculty member of the Carnegie Mellon University ECE department where he teaches software skills for mission-critical systems. In 2018 he was awarded the highly selective IEEE-SSIT Carl Barus Award for outstanding service in the public interest for his work in promoting automotive computer-based system safety. In 2022 he was named to the National Safety Council’s Mobility Safety Advisory Group. He is the author of the books: Better Embedded System Software (2010), How Safe is Safe Enough: measuring and predicting autonomous vehicle safety (2022), and The UL 4600 Guidebook (2022).

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.

Piotr is a computer vision expert with a passion for creating innovative technology products that make a difference in the lives of millions of people. He completed his MSc in Applied Mathematics at the University of Oxford, where he became fascinated with Computer Vision and decided to pursue a career in it. Piotr went on to earn a PhD from the Technical University of Munich. Before joining Nodar, Piotr worked at an autonomous driving start-up, gaining valuable experience applying AI and computer vision technology to real-world applications. He has authored numerous scientific publications and holds several patents in the field of multi-camera vision. When he’s not working, Piotr enjoys playing soccer, sailing, and tinkering with robotic projects.

Pooyan Sadeghi joined Kognic in March 2022 as a perception expert, developing a software platform to measure and improve perception performance for increasing automated mobility. His area of focus in Kognic is to argue safety in an objective and data- driven way to validate safe perception systems right from sensor data. Before joining Kognic, Mr.Pooyan Sadeghi was a functional safety manager at Volvo GTT, ensuring the actions and activities for ISO-26262-compliance of Energy Storage Systems (ESS) were fulfilled. There, he was responsible for providing the safety artifacts, i.e., Hazard Analysis, Functional Safety Concept, Technical Safety Concept, FMEA, Safety Case, and Safety Plan. Prior to Volvo GTT, Mr. Pooyan Sadeghi was a system designer and safety engineer at Volvo Cars, developing ADAS (Advanced Driver-Assistance System) functions, e.g., CA (Collision Avoidance), and DA (Driver Assistance). Mr. Pooyan Sadeghi is a former entrepreneur in the field of telecommunication; he earned his MSEE (telecommunication) from Chalmers University of Technology.

Dr. Qing Tian is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Bowling Green State University where he founded and directs the BG Computer Vision Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McGill University. His primary research interests lie in deep neural network compression, robust neural architecture search, and adversarial AI. His current research in fast and reliable self-driving perception is generously supported by the National Science Foundation through a CRII Award. Prior to joining BGSU, he conducted research projects in visual detection at Amazon Visual Search. Before his PhD, he worked at Nakisa Inc as a software developer.

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

Ralf J. Muenster serves as the Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at SiLC. With over two decades of experience in commercializing and growing differentiated high-tech businesses, he has a proven track record of expanding customer and partnership engagements. Previously, he held the position of Director at Texas Instruments’ CTO office, where he identified and developed new growth vectors and strategic technology partnerships for the company. Muenster has held various executive positions in the semiconductor industry, including as an intrapreneur and business executive at National Semiconductor, Micrel, and AMD, where he led the automotive market segment. He also founded a successful computer start-up in Germany and conducted research in the photonics field as a scientist at the University of California at Berkeley. Muenster earned his master’s degree in physics from the Technical University in Munich and is a multiple U.S. patent holder. He is a prolific author and is frequently invited to speak at top industry events.

Richard Conroy is CEO and founder of Chronoptics, a company developing Time of Flight (ToF) 3D camera solutions for a range of industries leveraging clever technologies and know-how to enable adoption in even the most challenging of applications. From Hamilton, New Zealand, Richard holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics (honours) and has more than 17 years of technical and commercial experience in ToF sensing technology.

For over 25 years, Rudy Burger has worked with computer vision, digital imaging and embedded camera technologies as a founder, operating executive and advisor. He has developed both a deep technical expertise and an awareness of market opportunity dynamics in these sectors that he leverages to guide his clients towards strategic successes. He currently focuses on the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) sector and has written several industry research reports to profile the leading and emerging technologies and outline the market landscape. 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).

Sai Vishnu Aluru is currently a Feature Integration Engineer – Vision Systems at General Motors (GM). Sai is the Subject Matter Expert for GM’s Image Quality. Being a collaborative, cross-functional Global Autonomous Driving Center’s key team player, he is very much focused towards the ultimate customer satisfaction by developing new methods, simulation models and test equipment for vehicle level testing of Image Quality at GM. Sai’s interests include Tool Scripting, Active Safety Viewing Systems, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Object Recognition, Pattern Recognition, Cyber-Security, and Simulation. He was an Active Safety Performance Engineer – Vision Systems (2015 to 2018) at GM. His innovative approach led to outlining and execution of GM’s Image Quality vehicle level testing strategy. Sai is the technical lead on Image Quality for multiple industry-first vision systems related features. He has 10+ US patents in viewing systems, pattern recognition, object recognition. Sai got his Masters in Electrical Engineering from Wayne State University, a Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Swami Vivekananda Institute of Technology, a Diploma in Computer Applications and a Diploma in Multimedia.

Sani Ronen serves as a leader in the product group at Arbe, he has over 26 years experience in various semiconductors and systems companies. Sani experience includes expertise in Phased Array and Air born Radars, RF and Communications accumulated from his service in Microchip , Microsemi, Radwin, Siemens and the IAF. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel and a Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia.

Sebastian is the CEO of ubicept which provides new imaging solutions in challenging environments such as seeing motion in the dark at unprecedented quality. He has spent his career exploring new kinds of imaging with a focus on signal processing and information extraction. He holds BS/MS/PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.

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.

Srinivasa S Guntur is Currently working for Rivian Automotive as a 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.