Justyna Zander, Dr. Eng.

Welcome to my website!

My name is Justyna Zander.

I am a Doctor of Engineering Sciences in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and a founder in Silicon Valley. My X name is: @zanderjustyna.

Here is my resume, Google AI made an entertaining yet inflated podcast about it.

For the past 25+ 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, genAI, and autonomy space, with the use of digital twins and large-scale infrastructure, often in mission-critical systems.

Øredev 2025 Keynote.

Øredev 2025 Podcast.

In 2026, we are planning to be at CES and MotorTrend SDV gala.
In 2025, I attended various Silicon Valley events, and Øredev conference 2025 in Malmo, Sweden (see the talk, keynote slides, podcast), eager to speak about current industry and technology trends.
I enjoyed Unicorn Summit 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal (see the panel); 51. TAV 2025 in Hamburg, Germany (see the paper, source paper); and CES 2025 and MotorTrend Software-Defined Vehicle Innovator Award gala in Las Vegas, NV as I had AI nominate a true SDV & AI Pioneer and Expert, Andrej, who won.
NVIDIA GTC 2025 in Santa Clara, CA was the best week of the year so far.
Since mid 2023, I have been performing lots of consulting for investors and executives about the impact of technology exponentials.
In 2023, I won the Global Leader Award by Society of Women Engineers (see the Magazine '23). See my formal work statement.
In 2023, Society of Women Engineers honored me with Patent Recognition Award for 6 patents.
In 2022, I gave a keynote on Simulation for Automated Driving and participated in a panel discussion at NAFEMS'22 in Detroit, MI, USA.
In 2022, the Polish-American journalist Marta Zucker did an interview on the tech of the future with me.

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 keynote on self-driving at MODELS 2021 in Japan was published online in October, 2021.
In 2021, Waymo asked me for a panel discussion on self-driven women.
In 2021, Peter Diamandis asked me for Imagination in Action Clubhouse discussion on moonshots technologies and their deployment.
In 2020, Sue Nelson representing Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering asked me for a Podcast about Driverless Future.
In 2019, I was named among 9 notable female engineers.
In 2018, I landed on the Business Insider’s annual list of the Most Powerful Women Engineers 2018 and engaged in simulation again.
In 2017, I won an Individual Award of the Society of Women Engineers in the category of Emerging Leaders.

My NVIDIA GTC Talks:

2021: Automating Autonomous Vehicles Verification and Validation
2021: Automated Testing at Scale to Enable Deployment of Autonomous Vehicles
2021: AV Simulation Tool Chain - Panel Discussion
2019: Methods for Creating HD Maps (1)
2019: Methods for Updating HD Maps (2)
2018: Crowd-sourcing, Map updates, and Predictions

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.

Here is an article on AI in Forbes as of April 2017 and another Forbes mention in March 2019.
And here is our report on safety of self-driving cars of 2018 at NVIDIA.

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

Self-Driving Safety Report at NVIDIA - 2019.

Edited Collection - 2011.

Here is my podcast on autonomous transportation of 2018.
Here is NVIDIA intern's perspective from 2018.
Here are some panel discussions on autonomous vehicles in 2017 and 2018. 2019 provided new insights. 2020 entirely changed the automotive market.

Here is a podcast on autonomy created by HERE Technologies late 2018.

Here is a video that we created in November 2017 for school kids to explain the autonomy.

Here is a Huffington Post article on autonomous driving as of September 2016.
Here is the video on my previous undertaking on self-driving cars and the computing platform in a data cloud city: "Concert in the Car".

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.