Blog

Bouke Douma is the Director of Product Marketing in the Automotive Business Unit in TomTom, based in Amsterdam. In his previous roles at TomTom, he was responsible for Product Management and Business Development of TomTom’s Autonomous Driving & Connected Services products. Prior to TomTom, he worked for Sony Electronics where he has done Product ManagementRead more

As Western Digital’s Automotive Director, Russell is responsible for the global go to market and product strategies for the automotive market. Previously Russell was Western Digital’s Surveillance and Connected Home Marketing Director and prior to that was responsible for the automotive business in Korea and Japan. Prior to joining Western Digital, Russell worked at Microsemi Corp. andRead more

Himanshu Agarwal studied at the Technical University of Hamburg in Germany, where he received his M.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering. After completion of his master’s degree, he joined HELLA as a Functional Safety Expert. The focus of his work is on Functional Safety of Machine Learning/AI for Advanced Driving Assistance Systems up to Autonomous Driving LevelRead more

Dominik Dörr studied Computer science at KIT in Karlsruhe from 2006 to 2012. From 2012 until February 2017 he works as a Research Assistant at the Institute for Vehicle System Technology at KIT researching “Adaptive Driver Advices for a longitudinal driver assistance function”. From February 2017 until December 2018 he worked within IPG Automotive GmbHRead more

Electronics & Software Manager at Ford Otosan which is a joint venture of Ford with 9 years of experience in product development of light, mid and heavy commercial vehicles. Expert in engineering management, cost and timing management, system and function integration. Leading critical activities such as Autonomous Truck development, in-house SW development, introduction of high end modules fromRead more

Alex is the CTO at Autonomous Intelligent Driving GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of AUDI AG developing a full self-driving software stack. Prior to AID, Alex was a key lead in the Tesla Autopilot team. Previously he held various positions in the robotics industry, ranging from software developer to director and co-founder. Over the years,Read more

Mario Trapp is Acting Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Embedded Systems and Communication Technology ESK. In 2005, he obtained his PhD with distinction from the University of Kaiserslautern, where he also did his habilitation in 2016. In 2005, he joined Fraunhofer IESE, where he was initially responsible as a department head for theRead more

Engineering degree Electro-Mechanics from University of Leuven Started my career in 2003 as Engineer for Toyota Motor Europe Quality Division responsible for EU specific Electronics related issue resolution Moved to Toyota Motor Europe Research & Development in 2008 to support ADAS system performance target setting and validation Currently leading a team of engineers and techniciansRead more

Passionate about cars and new technologies, David MEAR graduated from the French Automotive Engineering school ESTACA, and after that, he has worked for five years at a major automotive supplier in Germany on the development of vehicle dynamics control systems for sport vehicles. Then, he led for two years the validation of Autonomous Driving (AD)Read more

Prof. Philip Koopman is a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, where he leads research on safe and secure embedded systems and teaches cost-effective embedded system design techniques. He has been involved with autonomous vehicle safety since 1996. His most recent projects include using stress testing and run time monitoring to ensure vehicle safety forRead more