Activity

 Society

• IEEE Fellow

• SAE Fellow

• ASME Fellow

• AAIA Fellow 

• AIIA Fellow

• Member, Tau Beta Pi

Awards

• Technology Innovation Awards,  Ford Motor Company (2003 - 2020)

• Controls Engineering Chief's Award, in recognition of outstanding job performance,  Ford Motor Company (2016)

• Global Diversity and Inclusion Award, for leading the way - commitment, actions, and achievements in building a diverse and inclusive culture,  Ford Motor Company (2014).

• Research & Advanced Engineering Publication Award, Ford Motor Company (2014)

• Henry Ford Technology Award, Ford Motor Company (2013)

• Henry Ford Technology Award, Ford Motor Company (2002)

Service

  Technical Committee

• Vice Chair, SAE Automobile Electronics Activity (2022 - )

• SAE Automobile Electronics Activity (2011 - 2022)

• SAE Hybrid EV Committee (2022 - )

• SAE Trust Anchors and Authentication Task (2022 - )

• SAE Truck and Bus Modeling and Simulation Task Force (2022 -)

• Member, Industry Committee, International Federation of Automatic Control (2019 - 2020) 

• Co-Chair, Tech Committee on Intelligent Vehicular Systems & Control, IEEE SMC (2009 - )

• Member, DAT/Safety System Patent Committee, Ford Motor Company (2008 - 2020)

• Member, Chassis Patent Committee, Ford Motor Company (2008 - 2020)

  Advisory

• Technology Advisory Council, Society for the Advancement of Material and Process (2021 - 2022)

• Technology Advisory Panel on Robotics, ASME (2020)

• ERC Panel, National Science Foundation, (2019)

• Technology Advisory Panel on Robotics, ASME (2018)

  Editorial

• Associate Editor, ASME J. of  Autonomous Vehicle Systems  (2020 - )

• Editorial Board Member, Int. Journal of Vehicle Performance (2014 - )

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (2010-2016)

• Associate Editor, IFAC Journal of Control Engineering Practice (2008~2014)

• Associate Editor, Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2006 - 2016)

• Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Autonomous and Semi-autonomous Control for Safe Driving of Ground Vehicles," Int. Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems (2010)

• Editorial Board Member, Int. Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems (2010 - 2018)

  Organizing

• Member of International Scientific Committee, The 28th IAVSD International Symposium on Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks  (2023)

• Member of IPC Committees, The 6th IFAC Conference on Engine and Powertrain Control, Simulation and Modeling E-COSM (2021)

• Member of Program Committee, The 5th International Symposium on Future Active Safety Technology toward Zero Accidents (2019)

• Member og Program Committee, The 2nd Connected and Automated Vehicles Symposium (IEEE CAVS) (2019)

• Vice-Chair, Industry & Applications, The 2015 American Control Conference (2015)

• Session Chair for 4 sessions at "Advanced Autonomous Vehicle Design for Severe Environments," Sponsored by NATO Advanced Study Institute/NATO Science for Peace and Security Program, Coventry University, UK. (2014)

• Session Chair, International Symposium on Agile Ground Vehicle Dynamics, Energy Efficiency, and Performance in Severe Environments (2013)

• Co-Moderator, Special session on "Strategic Technology Plan and Internal Cooperation on Future Electric Vehicle", FISITA (2012)

• Chair, Regular Session on "Test of Component, System, and Vehicle," FISITA (2012)

• Chair, Regular Session on "Test and Validation," FISITA (2012)

• Chair, Invited session on "Integrated Vehicle Dynamics and Control," The 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2011)

• Chair, Invited session on "Integrated Vehicle Dynamics and Control," The 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2010)

• Chair, Special session on "The System of Vehicle, Driver, Environment, and Control," The IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (2009)

• Chair, Invited session on "Integrated Vehicle Dynamics and Control," The 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2009)

   Speeches

• Plenary Speaker, the 3rd Conference on Vehicle Control and Intelligence, Hefei, China (2019)

• Speaker, “The Important Player for Smart Cities: Mobility and Its Systems,” IEEE Smart Cities Webinar (2019)

• Plenary Speaker, 2019 IEEE 16th International Conference on Networking, Sensing, and Control (2019)

• Speaker, Connected and Automated Vehicles, The 3rd IAVSD Workshop on Dynamics of Road Vehicles (2019)

• Panelist, “Real Player One: Rise of the Robot”, Cayman Alternative Investment Summit (2019)

• Keynote Speaker, “Intelligent Vehicles for Smart Mobility,” SAE Intelligent and Connected Vehicles Symposium, Kunshan, China (2018)

• Panelist, “How Can Autonomous Vehicles Help Shared Mobility?” SAE Intelligent and Connected Vehicles Symposium, Kunshan, China (2018)

• Keynote Speaker, "Vehicle Intelligentification: An Industry Point of View," The 1st Metro Detroit Workshop on Connected and Autonomous Driving (MetroCAD 2018), Wayne State Univ. (2018)

• Panelist, "Panel: Opportunities and Challenges of Connected and Autonomous Driving," The 1st Metro Detroit Workshop on Connected and Autonomous Driving (MetroCAD 2018), Wayne State Univ. (2018)

• Panelist, "Merging minds and machines: Using BMI to meld human minds with AI; Science fiction or inevitable future?" Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface Systems, IEEE SMC (2017)

• Panelist, Industrial Applications Panel: Intelligent Autonomy and Robotics, IEEE SMC (2017)

• Speaker, "Smart Mobility: The inevitable contributor of Smart Cities," International Symposium on Smart Grid for Smart City, Guangzhou,China (2017)

• Panelist, Panel: Mobility - autonomous driving, Michigan China Forum (2017)

• Keynote Speaker, "From Automotive Sensing, Control, and Networking Systems to Vehicle Intelligentification," The 12th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing, and Control (2015)

• Speaker, 7th Control Science and Engineering Forum, in Changchun, Jilin (2015)

• Speaker of 3 sessions at "Advanced Autonomous Vehicle Design for Severe Environments," Sponsored by NATO Advanced Study Institute/NATO Science for Peace and Security Program, Coventry University (2014)

• Speaker, International Symposium on Agile Ground Vehicle Dynamics, Energy Efficiency, and Performance in Severe Environments (2013)

• Keynote Speaker, The International Forum on Advanced Vehicle Technologies and Integration, Changchun, China (2011)

• Panelist, Education and Professional Development in Vehicle Dynamics, SAE Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress (2010)

Cooperative/Collaborative Research

• Ford Principal Investigator, Ford - MIT Alliance Research projects (MIT PI: Prof. Jonathan How) (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)

• Ford Principal Investigator, Ford - Georgia Tech Alliance Research project (Georgia Tech PI: Prof. Panagiotis Tsiotras) (2018 - 2019)

• Ford Principal Investigator, Ford - UM Alliance Research project (UM PI: Prof. Matthew Johnson-Roberson and Ram Vasudevan) (2016 - 2017)

• Ford Principal Investigator, Ford Poling Challenge Fund awarded to Prof. Lei Zuo, SUNY Stony Brook (2012-2013)

• Ford Principal Investigator, Ford-University of Michigan Innovation Alliance Research project (UM PI: Prof. Huei Peng) (2011 - 2013)

• Ford Principal Investigator, Ford-University of Michigan Innovation Alliance Research project (UM PI: Prof. Dennis Bernstein) (2008 - 2010)

• Ford Principal Investigator, University Research Program Awarded to Prof. Dave Bevly, Auburn Univ. (2008 - 2010)

• Ford Principal Investigator, Ford-University of Michigan Innovation Alliance Research project (UM Principal Investigator: Prof. Huei Peng) (2006 - 2008)

• Ford Principal Investigator, University Research Program Awarded to Prof. Panagiotis Tsiotras, Georgia Institute of Technology (2006 - 2008)

• Co-Principal Investigator, GOALI/Collaborative Research: Advanced Driver Assistance and Active Safety Systems through Driver's Controllability Augmentation and Adaptation, NSF1234286 (2012 - 2015)

• Co-Principal Investigator, GOALI: Next Generation Active Safety Control Systems for Crash-Avoidance of Passenger Vehicles Using Expert Driver Knowledge, NSF 0727768, (2007 - 2010)

• Co-Principal Investigator, Ford-University of Michigan Innovation Alliance Research project (UM PI: Prof. Dennis Bernstein) (2013 - 2015)

• Ford Secondary Investigator, Univ. Research Program awarded to Prof. Tadanari Taniguchi, Tokai Univ. (2011-2013)

• Ford Secondary Investigator, University Research Program Awarded to Prof. C. Gerders, Stanford Univ. (2011 - 2013)

Teaching

• Lecturer,  Fundamentals of Vehicle Dynamics and Control, Ford Motor Co. (2014 - 2020)

• Lecturer,  Advanced Vehicle Dynamics/Control, Ford Motor Co. (2015 - 2020)

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