Speakers

Dr Pete Thomas (Loughborough University, UK)

Topic: Assuring the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles

Short bio: Pete Thomas, Professor of Road and Vehicle Safety at Loughborough University, is a leading figure in the development of road and vehicle safety policy resources and has led the establishment of the European Road Safety Observatory. He has advised the European Commission on its Road Safety Policy Orientations to 2020 and has co-ordinated several large research projects to gather and analyse accident and safety data which together had a value of around €20 m. Pete is a specialist in the area of accident and injury causation, publishing over 150 research papers on a broad range of vehicle safety issues, including active safety systems, injury biomechanics and causation, crash test procedures and accident data analysis. Since 2013 Pete’s responsibilities have broadened to include the area of autonomous vehicles and intelligent mobility, of which new safety technologies form a part. The research field includes human-machine interface evaluations, monitoring and outcomes assessment of ITS and systems integration of vehicle and infrastructure technologies. He is closely involved in the development and evaluation of automated driving systems and he is the academic lead of Loughborough University’s partnership with the Transport Systems Catapult.

Dr Michele Rondinone (Hyundai Europe)

Topic: Vehicle automation

Short bio: Michele Rondinone is a Telecommunication Engineer from the University of Bologna (Italy) and PhD in Industrial and Telecommunication Technologies from the UMH University of Elche (Spain). After 5 years of academic research on wireless sensor networks at the RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and vehicular networks at the UMH, he is from 2014 with HMETC - Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center (Germany). At HMETC, he is involved in the European Car2X activities of Hyundai. Initially, his focus was on preparation for Car2X Day1 system deployment with management of development and innovation projects and collaboration in Car2X infrastructure (pre-) deployment initiatives. Currently, he is involved in research on Day2 and beyond Car2X including support for automated driving. These activities include internal as well as EU funded R&D projects (H2020 MAVEN and TransAID). He also contributes to international Car2X specification in ETSI ITS and the Car2Car Communication Consortium, where he chairs the Competence Group Roadmap.

Dr Meng Lu (Dynniq, The Netherlands)

Topic: ICT infrastructure systems for automated driving

Short bio: Meng Lu, Strategic Innovation Manager at Dynniq Nederland B.V. The Netherlands; VP, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS); Steering Committee Member, IEEE Future Networks - Enabling 5G and Beyond; VP, IBEC (international forum for ITS evaluation); Editorial Board Member, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) ITS; In 2011-2015 Programme Manager at Dutch Institute of Advanced Logistics, The Netherlands; In 2009-2010 Visiting Professor at the National Laboratory for Automotive Safety and Energy, Tsinghua University, P.R. China. Participation in European initiatives and projects since 2005, as Coordinator, WP Leader and/or Partner. Education: PhD at Lund University, Sweden; Master's title and degree of Engineering in The Netherlands and P.R. China.

Dr Julian Schindler (DLR, Germany)

Topic: Infrastructure-assisted automated driving in transition areas

Short bio: Dr Julian Schindler started 2006 as computer scientist at German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Braunschweig, at the Institute of Transportation Systems in the department of Ergonomics and HMI. Responsible for fixed-based DLR driving simulators and working on Scenario Design and Traffic Simulation. Participated in several national and international EU Projects, e.g. Citymobil, ISi-PADAS, HAVEit, interACT, ecoMove, MAVEN with several WP leads.

Since April 2017 teamleader of the group responsible for the developments of vehicle function. Since September 2017 coordinator of H2020 TransAID.

Dr Henning Hamer (Continental AG)

Topic: Enabling L3 + driving through the generation of crowd-sourced maps

Short bio: Henning Hamer holds a PhD from the Computer Vision Laboratory of ETH Zurich in Switzerland. He is an expert in large-scale video analytics and machine learning with a special focus on visual object tracking, object/face recognition, and mapping.

Henning also has several years of industry experience working at Continental, AGT Group (R&D) GmbH, DaimlerChrysler, and BOSCH. He is adept in agile software development and in technology transfer, i.e. turning the results from cutting edge research into products..

David Quesada (Enide, Spain)

Topic: Preparing the road infrastructure for the introduction of Automated Driving – the INFRAMIX approach

Short bio: David QUESADA is CTO of Enide. He has a degree in Computer engineering. Based on his previous expertise in the preparation of international, multi-cultural and complex IT systems for the Athens 2004, Torino 2006 and Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at ATOS, he joined ATOS Research and Innovation department as Project Manager involved in R&D projects for automotive, mobility and logistics. Currently, he is dissemination leader of INFRAMIX, having collaborated in technical management activities in many other FP6, FP7 and H2020 projects during the last 12 years.

Antonio Kung (Trialog, France)

Topic: Management of privacy in cooperative ITS

Short bio: Antonio Kung is co-founder of Trialog. With more than 30 years of experience in the field of cyber physical systems and the Internet of Things, he brings expertise and know-how particularly on architecture, interoperability or data security and protection. He has been coordinator of numerous collaborative projects in France and Europe in these fields. He is active in the standardisation of the Internet of Things, security and data protection, in particular the publisher of the ISO/IEC standards 27550, 27030, 27570, 21823-3. In 2018 he became a senior partner of Trialog and its president.

Dr Marc Lacoste (Orange Labs, France)

Topic: Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Security: Challenges Ahead for 5G

Short bio: Marc Lacoste is a Senior Research Scientist in the Security Department of Orange Labs, where he leads research on vehicular security and data protection. His main research interests are in security of vehicular systems, cloud and virtualisation, open security kernels, and security architecture. He received engineering degrees from Ecole Polytechnique and Télécom ParisTech, and holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Grenoble. He is active in several European projects, such as recently as Technical Leader of H2020 SUPERCLOUD on user-centric multi-cloud security. He served in several major conference program committees, and published numerous security research papers in international conferences.

Nouhed Naidja (VeDeCom, France)

Topic: Base material for microscopic autonomous simulation

Short bio: Naidja Nouhed is currently Autonomous Driving Research Engineer at VeDeCom. She holds engineering diploma in automation and control from petroleum engineering institute of Algeria, and a master's degree in robotics from Paris Saclay University. She has an interdisciplinary R&D experience in multiple academic and industrial institutions: AKKA Technologie, LISV (Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes de Versailles) and Sonatrach. Nouhed skills focuses in applications of control theories to complex physical systems such as : automotive (lateral and longitudinal control, steering control), robotics, mechatronics and petrochemical process (implementation of a fuzzy-adaptative based controller on chemical reactors). Her research interests concerns : physics-based modelling and simulation, control design, implementation and integration.