Justyna Zander
Doctor of Engineering Sciences in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Dr. Justyna Zander is a founder who works on engineering software-defined devices using AI, digital simulation and computational infrastructure to foster continuous innovation and raise quality standards. Formerly, she spent 5.5 years with NVIDIA Autonomous Vehicles. Before, she was at Ford, Intel, MathWorks, White House, German car industry, and Fraunhofer Institutes. She earned two BSc-s, MSc, and PhD in Germany, and did a postdoc at Harvard University.
Dr. Zander holds 3 citizenships (Polish, German, and American) and speaks 5 languages. Frequent keynote speaker, filed for ~40 patents, published 3 books and coauthored ~40 science publications, reviewed ~1000 academic papers on simulation, model-based testing and embedded systems design.
Acknowledged internationally with countless awards (IEEE, European Union, NIST, SWE, SAE, Falling Walls, etc.). For over 20 years she has served as a technical committee member for more than 50 journals and conferences. Advises government strategy and research roadmaps; invited by NSF, EU Commission, national councils; member of multiple Steering Committees at various conferences.
She was listed on Business Insider’s annual list of the Most Powerful Women Engineers and she won SWE Emerging Leader Award as an international recognition for breakthrough work in computer science and engineering. In 2023, she won SWE Global Leader Award, Patent Recognition Award, and was nominated as IEEE Fellow.
As a student, she was recognized among very best students in Poland (<0.04%), in Germany (<1%), USA (<3%). See the documentation here.
SUMMARY
Thought leadership and large team leadership for large high-tech geographically-distributed systems.
Public speaker, author, inventor, flexible, intense, passionate.
Personality biased toward creating solutions.
Infatuated with self-driving car technologies.
Intrigued with space industry technologies and supersonic flights.
Endless desire to grow and learn, ideally together.
Aiming at greatness.
WHAT
Technology Director, Founder, Technical Teams Lead
Directs technological initiatives and demonstrations; featured at the White House
Drives lasting relationships with thought leaders; committee member of over 50 boards
Manages and performs technology research; cited almost 2000 times
Advises government strategy and research roadmaps; invited by NIST, EU, national councils
HOW
Outstanding academic background; 40 peer-reviewed publications, postdoc at Harvard, visiting professor
Stellar academic reputation; authored and co-authored 3 books, 30 awards and honors
Provides strong technical leadership and direction
Communicates well with customer, various teams, and executive management
Effectively drives and manages geographically distributed efforts and related risks
Entrepreneur spirit; founded and co-founded 3 startups and initiatives
Acquires funding from multiple sources; creates opportunities for team members
Public technical speaker; over 40 invited talks, over 30 mentions in technical media
Creative thinker with vision; 40 patent applications
Cultivates the culture of enthusiasm
WHERE
Specialized in supervised learning, generative AI, and synthetic data
Domain expert in safety-critical system development and system architecture
Domain expert in verification, validation, safety, incl. the use of scalable design and simulation
Application expert in embedded systems and cyber-physical systems; e.g., self-driving cars
CREDENTIALS
Projects at the White House, Fortune 500 companies, automotive OEMs, Harvard, MIT, WPI, Fraunhofer Institutes
SWE member and Multiple Awards
IEEE Senior Member
SAE Member
Expert in European Union Horizon2020
International Society for Modeling and Simulation Steering Committee
Exponential Organization Expert
German National Academic Foundation Alumnus
Hertie Foundation Alumnus
Singularity University Alumnus
Science Magazine reviewer
Extraordinary Ability green card (EB1)