Marcus Nolte works as a Research Associate at the Institute of Control Engineering at TU Braunschweig since 2014 and is currently pursuing his PhD. He received his Bachelor and Master of Science in electrical engineering from TU Braunschweig in 2011 and 2014. His main research interest is systems- and safety engineering for automated vehicles with an application to self- and risk-aware and motion planning.
Email: nolte@ifr.ing.tu-bs.de
Phone: +49 531 391 3827
Krzysztof Czarnecki is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. His research focus is on safety assurance of autonomous vehicles, and especially assuring appropriate behavior in traffic and functions that rely on machine learning. He co-leads the development of UW Moose, Canada’s first self-driving research vehicle (autonomoose.net). He also serves on Society of Automotive Engineers task forces on level of driving automation, reference architecture for automated driving systems, and maneuvers and behaviors.
Email: kczarnec@gsd.uwaterloo.ca
Phone: +1 519 888 4567 37137
J. Christian Gerdes is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University and Director of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS). His laboratory studies how cars move, how humans drive cars and how to design future cars that work cooperatively with the driver or drive themselves. When not teaching on campus, he can often be found at the racetrack with students, instrumenting race cars or trying out their latest prototypes for the future. Professor Gerdes and his team have been recognized with a number of awards including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the Ralph Teetor award from SAE International and the Rudolf Kalman Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Email: cgerdes@stanford.edu
Phone: +1 650 497 3574
Mykel Kochenderfer is Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. Prior to joining the faculty, he was at MIT Lincoln Laboratory where he worked on airspace modeling and aircraft collision avoidance, with his early work leading to the establishment of the ACAS X program. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh and B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Stanford University. Prof. Kochenderfer is the director of the Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory (SISL), conducting research on advanced algorithms and analytical methods for the design of robust decision making systems. Of particular interest are systems for air traffic control, unmanned aircraft, and other aerospace applications where decisions must be made in uncertain, dynamic environments while maintaining safety and efficiency. Research at SISL focuses on efficient computational methods for deriving optimal decision strategies from high-dimensional, probabilistic problem representations. He is the author of ”Decision Making under Uncertainty: Theory and Application” and ”Algorithms for Optimization”, both from MIT Press. He is a third generation pilot.
Email: mykel@stanford.edu
Phone: +1 650 497 3574
Fabian Oboril is a Research Scientist at the Autonomous Mobil Systems Research Research Lab in Intel Labs, since 2018. Before he worked for Intel’s automated driving division. In 2016, he received his PhD in Computer Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany and Clemson University, USA. His research interest focuses on the development of dependable automated vehicles to improve future driving experiences.
Email: fabian.oboril@intel.com
Phone: +49 721-62695085
Martin Törngren has an engineering background in mechatronics. After starting a company in the mid 90s, specializing in advanced tools for developers of embedded control systems, he embarked on an academic career, becoming a Professor in Embedded Control Systems at KTH in 2002. His core research interests are in cyber-physical systems design methodology including architecting, safety, and model based engineering. Networking, multidisciplinary research and industrial collaboration have been characteristic throughout his career. He is the initiator and Director of the Innovative Centre for Embedded Systems (www.ices.kth.se), launched in 2008.
Email: martint@kth.se
Phone: +46 8 790 6307
Bowen Weng is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Iowa State University. He received his Masters Degree in System and Control Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 2016 and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2023. Since 2016, before joining Iowa State University, he worked as a Research Engineer, Technical Specialist, and Research Scientist at Transportation Research Center Inc. on assignment to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), U.S. Department of Transportation. Dr. Weng is the organizer of the IEEE-ITSC 2022, IEEE-IV 2023, and IEEE-ITSC 2023 workshops on “Safety Testing and Validation of Connected and Automated Vehicles” and the Associate Editor of IEEE-IV 2023. He also chairs the ASTM Committee F45.06 Legged Robot Systems for standard development.
Email: bweng@iastate.edu
Ignacio Alvarez is Sr. Research Scientist at the Autonomous Driving Research Lab in Intel Labs where he develops, software, system architectures and simulation tools to accelerate the adoption of safe automated driving technologies. Prior to Intel, Ignacio worked for 8 years at BMW leading R&D and product development for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and Vehicle Telematics Services in Europe, America and Asia. Ignacio received his International Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of the Basque Country (Spain) and Clemson University (USA) in 2011 in the field of Driver Assistance Systems. Ignacio’s research is focused on the development of intelligent automated vehicles that augment human mobility with safer and more enjoyable experiences.
Email: ignacio.j.alvarez@intel.com
Phone: +1-971-223-97766
Arnaud de La Fortelle has engineering degrees from the French École Polytechnique and École des Ponts et Chaussées and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics. He managed (being coordinator twice) several French and European projects. He moves to MINES ParisTech in 2006 where he becomes director of the Center for Robotics in 2008. He was Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley in 2017-2018. He has been elected in 2009 to the Board of Governors of IEEE Intelligent Transportation System Society. He has been member of several program committees for conferences and was General Chair of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2019 in Paris. He was member, then president of the French ANR scientific evaluation committee for sustainable mobility and cities in 2008-2017. He also serves regularly as expert for the European research program (FP7, H2020). His main topic of interest is cooperative systems (perception, communication, data distribution, control, mathematical certification) and their applications (e.g. collective taxis, cooperative automated vehicles). He chairs the international research chair Drive for All with sponsors Valeo, Safran and Peugeot and partners UC Berkeley, EPFL and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Email: arnaud.de_la_fortelle@mines-paristech.fr
Phone: +33 1 4051 9408
Jia Hu works as a ZhongTe Distinguished Chair in Cooperative Automation in the College of Transportation Engineering at Tongji University. Before joining Tongji, he was a research associate at the Federal Highway Administration, USA (FHWA). He graduated with a Ph.D. degree from the University of Virginia. He received his Master degree in transportation engineering from the North Carolina State University. He holds a BS degree in Civil Engineering from Zhejiang University, China. His research interests include connected and automated vehicles, microscopic simulation model application, system optimization, and transportation energy efficiency.
Email: hujia@tongji.edu.cn
Phone: +86-13588159138
Maximilian Naumann is with Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI). Prior to joining BCAI, he was research group leader at the Institute of Measurement and Control at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) degree from KIT in 2016 and 2020. During his studies, he visited MSCL at UC Berkeley, USA, and contributed to the interaction dataset and lanelet2. His interests include safe and cooperative motion planning and human driver modelling.
Email: Maximilian.Naumann@de.bosch.com
Phone: +49 711 811-18226
Torben Stolte studied Automation Technologies at Universität Lüneburg (Diplom (FH) 2008) and Electrical Engineering at Technische Universität Braunschweig (M. Sc. 2011). From 2011 to 2022, he was a research assistant at the Institute of Control Engineering of Technische Universität Braunschweig. Parallely, he worked in a collaboration with Porsche Engineering as functional safety engineer from 2011 to 2014. Since 2022, he is with Volkswagen. His research interest is safety of automated vehicles. He focuses on safety argumentation as well as on investigating the potential of fault-tolerant vehicle motion control.
Email: stolte@ifr.ing.tu-bs.de
Phone: +49 531 391 3862
Hong Wang is currently a Research Associate Professor at Tsinghua University. From 2015 to 2019, she was working as a Research Associate of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering with the University of Waterloo. She received her Ph.D. degree in Beijing Institute of Technology in China in the year 2015. Her research focuses on SOTIF, risk assessment and crash mitigation-based decision making during critical driving scenarios, ethical decision making for autonomous vehicles, intelligent control theory and application. She becomes the IEEE member since the year 2017. She has published over sixty papers on top international journals, such as IEEE Transaction on Intelligent System, IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transaction on Mechatronics, etc. She also served as the associate editor for 2019 Intelligent Vehicles Symposium held in Paris, France.
Email: hong_wang@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Markus Maurer studied Electrical Engineering at the Technische Universität München (Diplom 1993). He then joined the group of Prof. E. D. Dickmanns at the Universität der Bundeswehr München where he finished his PhD in 2000 in the field of automated driving. From 1999 to 2007 Prof. Maurer was a project manager and head of the development department of Driver Assistance Systems at Audi. Since 2007 he has been a full professor for Automotive Electronics Systems at the Institute of Control Engineering at Technische Universität Braunschweig. His research focuses on both functional and systemic aspects of automated road vehicles.
Email: maurer@ifr.ing.tu-bs.de
Phone: +49 531 391 3838