Dr. Huafeng Yu is a Senior Scientist specializing in Safety and AI Assurance at the U.S. Department of Transportation, Highly Automated Systems Safety Center of Excellence (HASS COE). Dr. Yu’s expertise includes Verification and Validation, Formal Methods, Safety and AI Assurance, and Certification for highly automated transportation systems. He works on AI Assurance, functional safety, and safety standards at U.S. DOT, and he is the lead of the AI Assurance Program. Prior to joining U.S. DOT, he worked at Boeing, TOYOTA, ALTRAN, INRIA, Gemplus (acquired by Thales), and Panasonic. Dr. Yu received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Lille, an M.S. in Computer Science from Université Grenoble Alpes, both in France.

Dr. Yu is a member of IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), AIAA Technical Committee on Intelligent Systems, and SAE S-18A Autonomy Working Group. He serves as associate editor of IET Journal on Cyber-Physical Systems,  guest editor of IEEE Transaction on Sustainable Computing,  ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, and SAE journal Aerospace. Dr. Yu has served on Program Committee of NFM, DAC, RTSS, ICAA, NSV, SAC, ICPS, DATE, ICCAD, DASC, SmartWorld, ARCH, SLIP, WICSA and CompArch, and AVICPS. 

Contact: huafeng.yu@gmail.com/huafeng.yu@dot.gov