Welcome to my website!

My name is Justyna Zander. I am a Doctor of Engineering Sciences in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. 

For the past 20+ years I have been passionate about latest technologies, their convergence, their impact, and profoundly technical nuances of specific disciplines. My professional background is in computer science with some connotations to computational, software and electrical engineering, automotive, robotics, as well as in environmental science. I am working in AI and autonomy space, with the use of digital twins and large-scale infrastructure, often in mission-critical systems. 

Presently, I am the CEO of an artificial intelligence startup that I founded in Silicon Valley. It is currently operating in stealth mode.

Here are my biography, resume, and statement of work updated by SWE committees

Previously, I cherished my time with NVIDIA from the first moment I joined in late 2016. While there, I was distinguished with significant measures of professional recognition:

My NVIDIA GTC Talks:

I have been active at ASAM's OpenSCENARIO 2.0 to leverage simulation of autonomous vehicles for their validation and verification. All to demonstrate safety. 

https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/self-driving-cars/safety-report/NVIDIA-Self-Driving-Safety-Report-2018.pdf

I was also supporting the ANA Avatar XPrize and Dr. Harry Kloor who is leading the effort announced as ready to launch as of October 2016. 

Blast from the past: our previous deliverable is described in this video: The Smart Emergency Response System (SERS) as Actionable Intelligence (White House) followed by the What-If Search Engine participating in Global City Teams Challenge 2014-2015 (NIST). SERS Deployment was presented in "Transforming On-Demand Emergency Communications with Drones" Homeland Security Today of May 2015.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxqdXN0eW5hemFuZGVyfGd4Ojc2Y2VkNGM0Y2UzMzIzY2Q

In 2013-2014, I was proudly representing MathWorks, Inc. and I was leading an external team and a project on Smart Emergency Response System featured at the White House in June 2014 as a part of SmartAmerica Challenge 2014

I was also involved in mentoring Summer Simulation Multi-Conference 2014 as a General Chair, held early July 2014. 

Before I was at Harvard University, in the role of a postdoctoral scientist and a fellow at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative - HHI in Cambridge (Boston Area), MA, USA, where I performed research on modeling and simulation, Model-Based Design, crisis mapping, and integrated computational methods, all in the context of Computation of Things and Computation for Humanity. Whenever I can, I am with SingularityU at NASA Ames Research Park in Moffett Field, CA, USA. Recently, in Summer 2011, as a Teaching Fellow in Network and Computing Systems/Nanotechnology Tracks at SingularityU.

I also truly enjoy product management, business analysis, and technical marketing activities. In Fall 2011, I founded a company SimulatedWay with a world-wide operations focus. The company IP has then been sold late 2012. 

You can find some of my professional blogs from 2009-2010 here. Here is my MATLAB Central Profile, and here is the GitHub profile.

In 2011-2014, I was cooperating with Gdansk University of Technology in Poland as a Visiting Professor, offering a block lecture and seminar series on Engineering and Technology – Exploration of Computational Theory and Practice, Numerical Integration, and Model-Based Design for Cyber-Physical Systems.

Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems - FOKUS, a research institute located in Berlin, Germany is the place where I was employed at in years 2004-2010.

There, I was a project manager and research scientist working in the areas of software engineering, software quality assurance, modeling, simulation, business and technical analyses. Here, I also created MiLEST, with great help of Abel Marrero Pérez and Xuezheng Xiong

  I have been fortunate to be one of the forty students selected from 1200 world-wide applications at Singularity University (on technological convergence) at NASA Ames, CA, from which I graduated in 2009. Anytime I can, I enjoy working as a Teaching Fellow there. At CiviGuard, Inc. co-founded by my friends and myself in 2009 I serve as a research and development consultant. Further details on my work can be found here or downloaded. My long-term mission is to realize Computation of Things for Sustainable Development and Human Fulfillment (see, e.g., these Ignite-Style slides or presentation).

With this regards, an edited collection on Computation for Humanity just came out and has been featured in Science Magazine, following the previous book on Model-based Testing for Embedded Systems.

Here are the groups to which I used to be affiliated to.

Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany, 2004-2009

University of California, San Diego, CA, USA, 2007

Singularity University at NASA Ames, CA, USA, 2009-2011

NVIDIA Superpower Titans, 2016-2022

Ford Motor Company, 2022

Updated November, 2023 by Justyna Zander.