SIP-adus Workshop 2018

Speakers List

  • Opening Session
  • Regional Activities and FOTs
  • Dynamic Map
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Cyber Security
  • SIP-adus Report Session
  • Impact Assessment
  • Next Generation Transport
  • Human Factors

    Welcome speech

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    Noriyuki Koda

    Vice-Minister for Policy Coordination
    Japan

    • Keynote speaker

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    Seigo Kuzumaki

    SIP-adus Program Director
    Cabinet Office
    Japan

    Seigo Kuzumaki is Executive General Manager at Advanced R&D and Engineering Company of TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION. He also works as a Chief Professional Engineer of vehicle safety. He received "Special award of appreciation from U.S. Government" in ESV 2007. Since 2016, He is a Program Director for SIP (Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program) ‘Automated driving systems’ at Cabinet Office, Government of Japan.

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    Kenneth M. Leonard

    Director
    Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office
    United States Department of Transportation
    USA

    Ken Leonard has over 30 years’ leadership experience in research, development and deployment of advanced technologies. His work to mature and develop technologies in energy; combat systems; strategic defense; aviation communications, navigation and surveillance; weather and surface transportation has guided technology systems from the laboratory to operational use. He is the Director of Intelligent Transportation Systems at the United States Department of Transportation where he works to advance a portfolio of programs designed to transform the way society moves. These include connected and automated vehicles, smart cities, accessible transportation, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and other cutting edge transportation systems designed to increase the safety and productivity of the nation’s transportation system.

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    Clara de la Torre

    Director responsible for Transport
    DG Research & Innovation
    European Commission
    Belgium

    Since 1 February 2016, Clara de la Torre is appointed Director for 'Transport' in the Directorate-General for Research & Innovation at the European Commission, marking the forth assignment at such position in the course of last 8 years. Previously, starting in 2014, she was responsible for the dossier 'Key Enabling Technologies', following a 3-years' appointment as Director in the field of 'Research and Innovation.' In her first post as a Director, from 2008 to 2010, she was in charge of 'Inter-institutional and legal matters related to the Framework Programme' at the European Commission. After a couple of years in private sector, her professional career was focussing on the research policies which became the springboard to working opportunities at the European Commission in 1987. In the late 90's, she was dealing with 'National Research Policies & Intergovernmental Cooperation.' She was also working at the EU Joint Research Centre both in Brussels and Seville, where she was Advisor to the Director of the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies. Clara de la Torre has a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid.

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    Hajime Amano

    President and CEO
    ITS Japan
    Japan

    Mr. Amano joined Toyota Motor Corporation in 1982. He started his career as a factory automation engineer, developing industrial robots and operation management systems for manufacturing and logistics. Then he expanded his areas covering transportation. He participated in pioneering Electronic Road Pricing demonstration project in Singapore from 1993 to 1995 as project manager of a consortium. Since then, he has been involved in a variety of ITS projects both in Japan and overseas. He has been a member of the International Program Committee of ITS World Congress since 2002 and also a member of the Board of Directors since 2006. He assumed the position of President and CEO of ITS Japan in 2009. He has also been the Secretary General of ITS Asia-Pacific since 2009.

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    Tom Alkim

    Senior Advisor
    Rijkswaterstaat, Ministry of Infrastructure & Water Management
    The Netherlands

    With 20 years of experience in the field of ITS, C-ITS and automated driving, Tom has been a constant factor for Rijkswaterstaat in exploring the opportunities to improve their primary processes in general and active traffic management in particular by looking for innovative solutions. Not for the sake of innovation itself but to improve traffic flow in the Netherlands in terms of throughput, safety and environmental impact.

    Tom is a member of the national working group on automated driving that’s responsible for realizing the Dutch Minister’s ambitions regarding connected and automated driving. This includes the Declaration of Amsterdam and the EU Truck Platooning Challenge during the Dutch Presidency of the EU in 2016.

    One of Tom’s continuing responsibilities is the knowledge agenda which can be found online: http://knowledgeagenda.connekt.nl/engels/

    In addition he is actively involved in realizing the current ambitions regarding Connected and Automated Driving for Rijkswaterstaat and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, as expressed by the Minister:
    - to ensure our infrastructure is ready for connected and automated driving;
    - to enable the next generation of vehicles to actually take the road by creating a legal framework (laying down requirements for reliability and safety, a driving license for self-driving cars...).
    (see https://www.government.nl/documents/speeches/2018/03/26/speech-by-cora-van-nieuwenhuizen-minister-of-infrastructure-and-water-management-at-the-opening- of-intertraffic-amsterdam-20-march-2018)

    Representing Rijkswaterstaat as a pro-active road operator striving to be a front runner in Europe regarding connected and automated driving, his focus is on cooperation. Cooperation with industry, knowledge institutes and public organizations on a national as well as on an international level.

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    Jim Barbaresso

    Senior Vice President
    HNTB
    USA

    Jim Barbaresso is an HNTB Technical Fellow, Senior Vice President and Practice Leader for HNTB's ITS and Emerging Mobility Solutions Practice. He has more than 40 years of experience in transportation planning, transportation operations, and ITS in both the public and private sectors. As leader of the HNTB ITS Practice, Jim provides subject matter expertise on highway, transit, aviation and tolling projects across the United States, including some of the nation’s most challenging emerging mobility programs like Smart Columbus and the Tampa Connected Vehicle Pilot. He is an advisor for many state DOTs and cities on smart city solutions and infrastructure planning for automated vehicles. Jim also is involved in the development of 2 of the USDOT automated vehicle proving ground initiatives.

    Jim has written numerous white papers and articles on public agency considerations regarding new mobility solutions in our age of connectivity and automation, and has given a TED talk on the impacts of connected automation. In 2014, Jim chaired the Organizing Committee for the highly successful ITS World Congress in Detroit. He is past Chair of the ITS World Congress Board of Directors and has served on that esteemed Board since 2011.

    Jim holds a Master of Science Degree in Transportation Planning from the University of Iowa.

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    Aria Etemad

    Volkswagen Group Research
    Germany

    Aria Etemad, Volkswagen Group Research, Germany. Aria Etemad is a senior project manager at Volkswagen Group Research in Wolfsburg, where he has been working in the area of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and automated driving. Before joining Volkswagen in 2013, Etemad worked for Ford Research and Advanced Engineering in Aachen and Visteon Automotive Systems in Cologne, Germany. Aria Etemad has been actively involved in several external projects: Between 2008 and 2017 he was coordinator of three leading European projects in the area of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and automated driving: ・euroFOT, the first European large-scale field operational test for studying the benefit of ADAS on traffic safety and efficiency (www.euroFOT-ip.eu), ・interactIVe, which dealt with the development of the next generation of ADAS that autonomously brakes and steers to avoid vehicle collisions (www.interactIVe-ip.eu), and; ・AdaptIVe, a major European effort for developing Automated Driving Applications & Technologies (www.AdaptIVe-ip.eu). Aria Etemad currently leads L3Pilot, a large-scale European pilot for bringing SAE level 3 automated vehicles to European roads (www.L3Pilot.eu).

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    Thomas Form

    Head of Group Research Vehicle Technology and Mobility Experience
    Vehicle Technology and Mobility Experience
    Volkswagen AG
    Germany

    Born 1959, Thomas Form studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Braunschweig, Germany, joined the Institute for Communication Engineering as research fellow in 1987 and received his Ph.D. in 1992.

    Up to 2002 he worked as a senior engineer in the Centre for Electromagnetic Compatibility of Volkswagen AG. In 2002 Dr. Form was appointed as the head of Telephone-/Telematics and Antenna systems development.

    He became a professor for „Electronic Vehicle Systems“ in the Institute of Control Engineering at the Technical University Braunschweig in 2005 and participated with the CAROLO-Team in the finals of the DARPA URBAN Challenge 2007.

    From 2007 to 2009 he was responsible for concept development, module- and project management in the VW Electric/Electronic development.

    In 2009 he was appointed as head of the “Electronics and Vehicle Research” within Volkswagen Group research. Major achievements were the presentation of AUDI “Jack” vehicle driving in L3 automatic mode with Journalists from San Francisco to CES 2015 in Las Vegas and the presentation of the autonomous driving pod “SEDRIC” in 2017.

    Since 2016 he is the coordinator of the German national funded project PEGASUS which wants to answer the question “L3 Highway Chauffeur - how safe is safe enough and how to prove it”.

    He got the Uni-DAS e.V. ADAS Award for significant influence on the development and introduction of driver assistance systems in 2017.

    Memberships: IEEE Member, VDI FVT and VDE GMM (both in advisory board)

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    Jan Hellaker

    Program Director
    Drive Sweden
    Sweden

    Mr. Jan Hellåker is the Program Director of Drive Sweden, a national strategic innovation program launched by the Swedish government to design the next generation mobility based on connected, self-driving and shared vehicles.

    Prior to joining Lindholmen Science Park which is the host organization for Drive Sweden, Jan spent 25+ years in advanced vehicle research within the Volvo Group. He was also the founder and first CEO of WirelessCar, a leading telematics service provider.

    Jan started his career with Ericsson and earned his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Chalmers University of Technology.

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    Randell H. Iwasaki

    Executive Director
    CONTRA COSTA transportation authority
    USA

    Randy Iwasaki is the Executive Director of the Contra Costa Transportation Authority.Iwasaki was appointed by the CCTA Board on April 16, 2010. In his role as Executive Director, he administers the one-half percent sales tax program. The Authority is also the Congestion Management Agency. Under his leadership, CCTA has established the largest connected and autonomous vehicle testbed at the former naval station in Concord, California. Prior to his appointment as Executive Director, Iwasaki was appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger as Director of the California Department of Transportation. Iwasaki serves on a number of national transportation panels and committees. He is the past Chairman of ITS America. He was appointed to the National Freight Advisory Committee and served as the Chair of the Committee. Iwasaki earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where he currently serves on the School of Engineering’s Industrial Advisory Board. In 2017, he received the Sandra Gardebring Ogren Leadership Award as one of the honored alumni from Cal Poly. He also earned a Master’s of Science Degree in Engineering from California State University, Fresno.

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    Alina Koskela

    Special Advisor
    Emerging services and R&D
    Finnish Transport Safety Agency (Trafi)
    Finland

    Alina Koskela (M.Soc.Sci) is Special Adviser for automartion and international RDI at the Finnish Transport Safety Agency Trafi. Her focus is within international connected automated driving initiatives as well as other RDI actions such as hosting Transport Research Arena conference in Helsinki in 2020. Alina is also in charge of the Aurora – the Arctic Intelligent Transport Test Ecosystem opened for trials since autumn 2017. The project focuses on facilitating and enabling connected and automated driving development especially in winter weather conditions. She has strong cross-sectoral experience from the public sector and has previously worked with international initiatives and cross-border projects particularly on road transport issues.

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    Keqiang Li

    Director of Research Center
    Department of Automotive Engineering
    Tsinghua University
    China

    Dr. Keqiang Li received his B. Tech. degree from Tsinghua University, China, in 1985, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Chongqing University, China, in 1988 and 1995, respectively. He worked at ISUZU Auto Corp., Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, University of Tokyo, TSNR of Japan, and Aachen University of Technology in Germany for about 6 years. He is currently a professor in the Department of Automotive Engineering at Tsinghua University. Dr. Li is an appointed Changjiang Scholar by Chinese Ministry of Education. He is the Chairperson of Technical Committee of China Industry Innovation Alliance for the Intelligent and Connected Vehicles (CAICV) and an Executive Member of the Society of Automotive Engineers of China. He is on the editorial boards of International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems. Dr. Li’s research interests include connected and intelligent vehicles, vehicle dynamics and control, etc. Currently he is leading the national key project on ICV (Intelligent and Connected Vehicles) of China. He has authored or co-authored over 200 peer reviewed journal/conference papers, and received more than 80 patents. Dr. Li received a series of important awards in and outside of China including the National Technology Invention Award, Technology Progress Award from Chinese Automotive Industry Award etc.

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    Masato Minakata

    Grand Master
    Vehicle Safety Planning R&D and Engineering Management Div. Advanced R&D and Engineering company
    TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Japan

    Masato Minakata is a member of International Corporation WG ,SIP-adus and also the secretary of FOT planning TF,SIP-adus.　Start automotive industry career in Toyota Motor Co.,Japan (1986- Electronics Engineering Div. ), and work for Toyota Technical Center, U.S.A. (2006-2008 Electronics System Div.). Since 2016, Vehicle Safety Planning, R&D and Engineering Management Div. in Toyota Motor Co.,Japan as Grand Master.

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    Takashi Oguchi

    Professor, Director of Advanced Mobility Research Center
    Institute of Industrial Science
    The University of Tokyo
    Japan

    Dr. Takashi Oguchi is a professor and Director of Advanced Mobility Research Center (ITS center), in Institute of Industrial Sciences, the University of Tokyo. He is also a member of Mobility Innovation Collaborative Research Organization (UTmobI) started on July 1st, 2018 in the university, which is aimed for interdisciplinary collaboration among different faculties in the university for wide range like engineering, law, social system, economy, psychology and so forth. He is in charge of education for the department of civil engineering, graduate school of engineering of the university. After receiving the PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1993, he joined the Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. He started to work in Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1995 and promoted to professor in 2007. He moved to the University of Tokyo in 2011 to join ITS center. His major research interests are Highway and Street/Avenue Planning and Desing, Traffic Behavior Analysis, Traffic Operation Evaluation, Mobility Systems. He is also working as a head of Next Generation Urban Transport Working Group of Japanese national project SIP-adus (Cross-Ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program in the Innovation of Automated Driving for Universal Services) since April in 2016.

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    Daniel Ruiz

    CEO
    Meridian Mobility UK
    UK

    Dr Daniel Ruiz joined Meridian Mobility UK Ltd (Meridian) as CEO in January 2018 leading the UK’s £100 million connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) programme.

    Meridian is the UK’s hub for testing and development of CAV, established in September 2017 with joint funding from industry and government to accelerate the uptake of CAV technologies and to exploit their social and economic potential.
    Meridian is currently channelling £100m of matched funding into infrastructure and associated projects which will form the core of Testbed UK: an integrated, comprehensive testing ecosystem for CAV and their environments. Meridian is responsible for scoping and overseeing the ecosystem.

    Daniel joined Meridian from Dynniq UK Ltd, where he was Managing Director. As MD of Dynniq, Daniel led a 500-strong team tackling traffic challenges on the road networks in the UK and Ireland by developing, installing and maintaining a number of technology-based solutions. He previously held roles as Head of Real Time Operations at Transport for London (TfL), Launch Director of the UK’s intelligent mobility innovation centre (the Transport Systems Catapult), and Programme Director for the Transport Coordination Centre for the London 2012 Games.
    Daniel gained his engineering degree from Selwyn College, Cambridge and his PhD in engineering from New College, Oxford.

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    Habib Shamskhou

    President
    Advanced Mobility Group
    USA

    Habib is co-founder and Program Director of the GoMentum Station Program in Northern California. GoMentum Station is one of the ten USDOT designated Autonomous Vehicle Proving Grounds, with an international precense as the largest secure Connected Autonomous Vehicle testbed in the world. He is President of Advanced Mobility Group based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

    Habib is a recognized authority on emerging advanced transportation technologies with expertise in technology facilitation, congestion management, safety, advanced mobility solutions, and program management. He has pioneered several innovative transportation projects over the past 25 years throughout the United States. Early in his career, as a Program Manger for the Automated Highway System (AHS) Program, he conducted the first precursor system analysis for the AHS from 1992-1998.Habib is Program Director and co-founder of GoMentum Station program in Northern California, the USDOT designated AV test facility and largest CV/AV testbed in the world. He is Global ITS practice leader at Stantec Consulting and he is based in San Francisco. Habib is recognized authority on emerging advanced technologies in transportation with expertise in congestion management, safety, mobility and program management. He pioneered several innovative transportation ITS projects in past 25 years. Early in his career he conducted first precursor system analysis for automated highway system for FHWA and from 1992-1998 he was one of the program manager of Automated Highway System (AHS) program. The National Automated Highway System Consortium was a $200 million program in partnership with US Department of Transportation led by General Motors that concluded successfully in summer of 1998 by demonstration of first generation of hand-off, feet-off driving on I-15 in San Diego.

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    Yoshihiro Suda

    Director of Mobility Innovation Collaborative Research Organization (UTmobI)
    Professor, Advanced Mobility Research Center, Institute of Industrial Science
    The University of Tokyo
    Japan

    1982 - 1987 Graduate Student in the Department of Engineering Synthesis, the Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Obtained Doctor Degree 1987 - 1990 Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of the College of Engineering, Hosei University 1990 - 2000 Associate Professor of Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo 1991 - 1993 Visiting Associate Professor of Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada 2000 - 2008 Professor of Center for Collaborative Research, the University of Tokyo 2006 - Professor of Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo 2007- Director of Chiba Experiment Station, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo 2008- Professor of Institute of Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo 2010- Director of Advanced Mobility Research, the University of Tokyo 2018- Director of Mobility Innovation Collaborative Research Organization

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    Satoru Nakajo

    Visiting Researcher
    The University of Tokyo
    Japan

    Satoru Nakajo　the University of Tokyo
    Center for Spatial Information Science
    Japan
    Visiting Researcher from 2017
    Project Associate Professor from 2012 to 2017
    Convenor for ISO/TC204/ SWG3.3 Location Referencing
    A member of SIP-adus
    2012: Ph.D from the University of Tokyo
    2017: MBA from McGill university

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    Katsuya Abe

    Director
    ITS Policy and Program Office, Road Bureau
    Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
    Japan

    Katsuya ABE graduated as a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA), University of Maryland, USA; Master of Business Administration (MBA), Imperial College, University of London, UK; and a Master of Engineering (MEng), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He is currently Director of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) policy and program office, Road Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Government of Japan. Major duties are to (1) make policies, manage several demo-type projects and coordinate standards with other stakeholders, in order to achieve the automated vehicle society and to (2) make policies, and lead R&D, in collaboration with private companies in order to develop and promote Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) systems connecting vehicles with road infrastructure. He is proud of being 27 years as a dedicated badminton player, having attained the level of the first grade player of Iai-do (the Japanese martial arts focusing on the draw cut), and having master of a French horn player.

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    Andras Csepinszky

    Director of Advanced Automotive Technology
    TISA
    Hungary

    András holds a diploma in biochemistry. From 2006 to 2009 he worked for Connexis Llc, a YGOMI company as senior business analyst and later as project manager contributing to a number of vehicle telematics projects with various car manufacturer OEMs. Between 2009 and 2014 he was seconded by YGOMI Llc to ERTICO-ITS Europe where he worked as project manager in a number of co-funded EU projects such as euroFOT, iMobilitySupport, HeERO, CityMobil2. During this time he was actively involved in the Intelligent Transport Systems standardization at ISO and CEN also acting as liaison officer of the Traveler Information Services Association (TISA). Since 2014 he is employed by NNG Llc, a Budapest-based automotive software supplier company in a number of roles: head of the Project Management Office, Advanced Automotive Technology advisor and more recently as Director of Advanced Automotive Technology. He is active contributor and member of the Steering Committee of the Navigation Data Standard Association (NDS), he is the convener of the Business Analysis Working Group of Traveler Information Services Association and task force leader of the Open AutoDrive Forum (OADF).

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    Prokop Jehlicka

    Manager Strategic Initiatives, Chairman of SENSORIS
    OADF/SENSORIS
    Germany

    Prokop holds a diploma in software engineering. In the years 2005 through 2010 he worked for the Department for Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering at the University of Stuttgart. His research area was on the detection and analysis of traffic state and travel behavior.

    From 2010 on, Prokop worked at NAVTEA and then HERE Technologies in the field of probe data and sensor data analytics. At his current position as Product Innovation Manager in the area of Data Monetization and Marketplace, he is involved in standardization activities on Sensor and Map Data.
    Since its constitution in 2016, Prokop is holding the chair of the Sensor Data Specification consortium SENSORIS

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    Tsutomu Nakajima

    President
    Dynamic Map Platform Co., Ltd.
    Japan

    He entered Mitsubishi Electric Co., Ltd in April, 1975. He was assigned to be the Manager of IT Space Systems Promotion Division of the company in April 2002. Managing Director of the Foundation Satellite Positioning Research and Center (SPAC) in April 2009. President and Representative Director of Dynamic Map Planning Co., Ltd in June 2016. President and Representative Director of Dynamic Map Platform Co., Ltd. in June 2017. (current position) He graduated from Keio University Graduate School of Engineering, 69 years old.

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    Jean-Charles Pandazis

    Head of Department
    Clean & Urban Mobility
    ERTICO
    Belgium

    Joined ERTICO in 2009. He holds Master degrees from the EPFL and GIT in Atlanta. He built his career at Bosch Corporate Research with focus on predictive navigation. At ERTICO he developed many activities related to map and driver assistance. He is from their launch the coordinator of the industry-driven platforms ADASIS and SENSORIS.

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    Yoshiaki Tsuda

    Chief Engineer
    Information Technology Systems Department
    KAMAKURA WORKS/Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Japan

    ITS Info-communications Forum,DSRC Platform WG Chair man

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    Alvaro Arrue

    Project Manager
    Applus IDIADA
    Spain

    Mr Álvaro Arrúe is Product Coordinator at the Electronics department in Applus IDIADA, Álvaro Arrúe holds an MsC in Telecommunications Engineering and an MsC in ICT in mobile networks by University of Zaragoza. Mr. Arrúe leads connected and automated driving activities within AppIus IDIADA. Ávaro Arrúe also represents the company in several forums and working groups: he is the chairman of the Electronics and Communications task force at EARPA, the European association of automotive and organisations and is also an active member of ERTICO – ITS Europe.

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    Kevin Dopart

    Manager
    United States Department of Transportation
    USA

    Kevin is the U.S. Department of Transportation's Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office’s Program Manager for Vehicle Safety and Automation. His research program aims to enable safe, efficient, and equitable integration of connected and automated vehicles into the transportation system. Previously, Kevin worked for Noblis, Inc. and the (now defunct) Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and began his career flying P-3 Orion aircraft worldwide for a U.S. Navy oceanographic research squadron. Kevin has B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering.

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    Maxime Flament

    Chief Technology Officer
    5GAA
    Belgium

    Dr. Flament represents 5GAA, the global cross-industry association for the development of connected and automated cars, where he works as Chief Technology Officer since April 2018. Maxime was working previously as Head of Department for Connected & Automated Driving (CAD) at ERTICO – ITS Europe, the European association promoting research and deployment on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Maxime holds a Ph.D. E.E. (2002) and M.Sc. E.E. (1997) from Chalmers Technical University, Sweden. He also holds an “Ingénieur Civil” degree from the Free university of Brussels (1997). In 2001, he was visiting researcher at Stanford University, CA, USA.

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    John Kenney

    Director
    Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA
    USA

    Dr. John Kenney is Director of networking research and a Principal Researcher at the Toyota InfoTechnology Center in Mountain View, California. He represents Toyota in international standards organizations and industry research consortia, including SAE, IEEE, ETSI and the Car2Car Communications Consortium. He also represents Toyota in DSRC Spectrum Sharing discussions with the US Government, European regulators, and the Wi-Fi industry. Prior to his work with Toyota, John was a member of the Tellabs Research Center and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame. He has graduate degrees from Stanford University and the Notre Dame.

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    Norifumi Ogawa

    Technical Research Dept. R&D Technical Administration Div.
    Mazda Motor Corporation
    Japan

    Mr. Norifumi Ogawa joined Mazda Motor Corporation in 1984 and had been working in the Electronics development department for Multimedia and Navigation engineering. In 2005 he had been dispatched to Mazda Motor Europa, R&D center as deputy general manager and had been responsible for vehicle research. In 2009, he returned to Japan and managed Advanced Driver Assistance System engineering. Since 2015, he has been working for ITS research in the Technical Research department in Tokyo.

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    Christian Rousseau

    Executive Expert
    Corporate Strategy and Business development
    RENAULT
    France

    Working at Renault, Christian Rousseau has been, since 2013 Executive Expert Leader in the Corporate Strategy, Plan and Business Development Division , leading the Strategic Domain hMobility and transport systemsh, in charge to propose corporate strategy and plan in order to meet customers mobility needs and transportation evolution for further vehicle definition (product and services) and business development. Since 2015, he is also in charge of the Connected and Automated Driving global Eco-system development. Before, he has been working for 25 years in the fields of Research , Advanced Engineering, and Development of Automotive Electronic and 10 more years in the field of worldwide technical information, customer care at the After Sales Division and then Warranty Cost Reduction Corporate Plan leader at the Quality Division. He is also member of several EU organization such as the Eu ITS advisory Committee, the C2C consortium, ACEA, EUCAR, ERTRAC and vice chair of the ERTICO Board.
    Christian hold a PhD from Polytechnic Grenoble in Solid State Physics.

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    Takashi Imai

    President
    Toyota InfoTechnology Center Co., Ltd.
    Japan

    Takashi Imai is President of Toyota InfoTechnology Center Co., Ltd. In addition to his role as President, he is President and CEO of Toyota InfoTechnology Center, U.S.A., Inc.

    Since beginning of his career with Toyota Motor Corporation in 1992, Mr. Imai has gained extensive experiences both in Japan and America. Prior to becoming President of Toyota InfoTechnology Center, he was responsible for reorganizing the Connected Function of Toyota Motor North America, Inc. as Executive Advisor. He has also held various technical and management positions, including strategic planning Manager for on-board electronic control unit; Manager of in-house development for HV’s brake system; Lead Engineer of electromagnetic compatibility for the first-generation Prius; and Engineer of development of on-board systems (e.g., in-vehicle infotainment systems).

    Mr. Imai holds a Bachelor of Science in Electromagnetic Engineering　from Tohoku University.

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    Chris Clark

    Principal Security Engineer
    Strategic Initiatives, Software Integrity Group
    Synopsys Inc.
    USA

    Chris is a twenty-three-year veteran of the Information Technology world who uses his experience in automotive systems, embedded device testing, and cyber security practices to help automotive organizations effectively integrate meaningful security solutions into their environments. Chris holds a Masters in Cyber Security from the University of Maryland University College as well as having held numerous certifications throughout his career. Chris has worn many hats, including roles as Project Manager, Product Manager, Data Center Operations Manager, Director of Information Systems, hospital system CIO, and Security Evangelist. Chris also participates with Standards bodies to ensure effective security requirements are included in the development of future Standards. Chris currently is focusing on helping customers in the automotive field to minimize their cybersecurity risks by engaging and sharing his knowledge and experiences in the hopes of building a more cyber resilient future.

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    Laszlo Toth

    Partner
    Deloitte’s Cyber Risk Services group
    Hungary

    László is a Partner in Deloitte’s Cyber Risk Services group. He has over 18 years IT security consulting experience. He performed and lead numerous IT security penetration tests and security reviews in highly sensitive areas including automotive industry, financial services, telecommunication and public sector clients.
    His expert areas are various penetration testing services and incident response. He is a specialist in automotive security and has deep knowledge about a wide range of operating systems, databases, application frameworks and automotive technologies.
    László has published his unique research results regarding Oracle database security and he is the developer of woraauthbf, which was the fastest Oracle password cracker at time of the publishing. László also published his research on Android mobile forensic and encryption.

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    Shigeyuki Kawana

    Grand Master
    TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Japan

    Chair person of Electrical subcommittee of Japan Automotive Manufacturers Association. And a technical secretary of Functional safety subcommittee, Cybersecurity subcommittee and Automated vehicle standardization committee in Japan Society Automotive Engineering. And working as a expert for ISO/SAE JWG21434 Cubersecurity Engineering standard and Functional Safety standard, ISO26262. A part time lecturer at Nagoya University.

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    Tsutomu Matsumoto

    Professor
    Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences
    Yokohama National University
    Japan

    Tsutomu Matsumoto is a professor of Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University and directing the Research Unit for Information and Physical Security at the Institute of Advanced Sciences. He is also a Joint Appointed Fellow at the Information Technology Research Institute of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). He received Doctor of Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1986. Starting from Cryptography in the early 80’s, he has opened up the field of security measuring for logical and physical security mechanisms. Currently he is interested in research and education of Embedded Security Systems such as IoT Devices, Cryptographic Hardware, In-vehicle Networks, Instrumentation and Control Security, Tamper Resistance, Biometrics, Artifact-metrics, and Countermeasure against Cyber-Physical Attacks. He is serving as the chair of the IEICE Technical Committee on Hardware Security, the Japanese National Body for ISO/TC68 (Financial Services), and the Cryptography Research and Evaluation Committees (CRYPTREC) and as an associate member of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ). He was a director of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and the chair of the IEICE Technical Committee on Information Security. He received the IEICE Achievement Award, the DoCoMo Mobile Science Award, the Culture of Information Security Award, the MEXT Prize for Science and Technology, and the Fuji Sankei Business Eye Award.

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    Hiroshi Nodomi

    Manager
    Automotive Sector
    PwC Consulting LLC
    Japan

    Manager in Automotive sector at PwC Consulting LLC., specialized in cybersecurity.
    He supported major OEM’s development of product cybersecurity policy, guidelines as well as management of vehicle penetration testing.
    He provides wide range of cyber security services in automotive sector in collaboration with PwC’s global teams.

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    Paul Wooderson

    Cybersecurity Principal Engineer & Team Leader
    HORIBA MIRA Ltd.
    UK

    Paul Wooderson is Principal Engineer and Cybersecurity team leader at HORIBA MIRA. He holds a MEng degree in Electronic Engineering and is a Chartered Engineer with 17 years’ experience in embedded systems security in the automotive and previously smartcard domains.

    Paul's experience includes security testing and validation of cryptographic hardware and software, threat analysis and risk assessment, security concept development for connected vehicle applications, secure hardware and software design consultancy, and security certification. He is a UK Expert to the joint working group developing the international standard ISO/SAE 21434 on automotive cybersecurity engineering, and a member of the SAE Task Forces Vehicle Electrical Hardware Security and Cybersecurity Assurance Testing.

    Paul has also contributed to development of industry standards in the areas of V2X communications security and Common Criteria security certification. He is author/co-author of publications on side channel attacks and automotive cybersecurity.

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    Katsuya Abe

    Director
    ITS Policy and Program Office, Road Bureau
    Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
    Japan

    Katsuya ABE graduated as a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA), University of Maryland, USA; Master of Business Administration (MBA), Imperial College, University of London, UK; and a Master of Engineering (MEng), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He is currently Director of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) policy and program office, Road Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Government of Japan. Major duties are to (1) make policies, manage several demo-type projects and coordinate standards with other stakeholders, in order to achieve the automated vehicle society and to (2) make policies, and lead R&D, in collaboration with private companies in order to develop and promote Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) systems connecting vehicles with road infrastructure. He is proud of being 27 years as a dedicated badminton player, having attained the level of the first grade player of Iai-do (the Japanese martial arts focusing on the draw cut), and having master of a French horn player.

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    Koji Hachiyama

    Counsellor
    National Strategy Office of ICT, Cabinet Secretariat
    Japan

    He joined in Ministry of International Trade and Industry: MITI (currently, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry: METI) in 1992. He worked at several positions, such as;
    - Director, Chemical weapon office, METI
    - Advisor to Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
    - Director for Bio Industry, METI
    - Director, Medical Innovation office, Cabinet Secretariat
    - Director, Global Environment Partnership and Technologies office, METI
    Before current position, he was a Director at Information Technology Department in JETRO New York, and head of Representative Office of Information Technology Promotion Agency (IPA).
    Currently, he is a counsellor of National Strategy Office of ICT, Cabinet Secretariat, and in charge of general and international affairs, ITS and other issues.
    He graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1992 (Master of Engineer). His major is Metal engineering.

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    Takahiro Hirasawa

    Director of Automated Driving Technology
    Road Transport Bureau
    Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
    Japan

    Mr. Hirasawa is Director Policy planning office for Automated Driving Technology, Engineering Policy Division, Road Transport Bureau, and in charge of planning for the safety of automated driving vehicles.
    He joined Ministry of Transport (MOT) in 1995. His recent career is as follows, Deputy-Director, Engineering Planning Division, Engineering and Safety Department, Road Transport Bureau, MLIT (2012-2014); Director, Vehicle Engineering and Safety Department, Kanto District Transport Bureau, MLIT (2014-2016); Director, Recall Enforcement Office, Type Approvals Division, Road Transport Bureau, MLIT (2016-2018)

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    Yasuyuki Koga

    Counsellor for SIP
    Bureau of Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet Office
    Japan

    He joined Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (formerly Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication) in 1995 and was mainly responsible for Telecommunications and ICT Policy and International Coordination and Standardization in the Ministry.
    He also worked at Research Promotion Bureau of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Standardization Promotion Office of National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and Center for Research Strategy of Waseda University to promote R&D and standardization. He is now responsible for the national research initiative SIP on automated driving for universal services (SIP-adus) in the Bureau of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan.

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    Akihiro Masuda

    Deputy Director
    Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
    Japan

    Education: 2014 Master of Earth and Planetary Science, the University of Tokyo
    Experience: 2018-present Deputy Director, Auto Parts and Software Industries Office, Automobile Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI
    2016 Environmental Economics Office, Environmental Policy Division, Industrial Science and Technology Policy and. Environment Bureau, METI
    2015 Power Infrastructure Division, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI
    2014 Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Policy, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI

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    Yosuke Nishimuro

    Deputy Director
    New-Generation Mobile Communications Office, Radio Dept., Telecommunications Bureau
    Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
    Japan

    Mr Yosuke Nishimuro is the Deputy Director of New-Generation Mobile Communications Office, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC).
    In 2003 he started his career with MIC, during which he held positions in information communication technology, internet governance, as well as in land mobile communication.
    He also worked in Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) (2006-2008). And Mr. Yosuke was appointed first secretary of the Embassy of Japan in Singapore (20015-20018).
    In 2018 he was appointed the Deputy Director of MIC again, and he is in charge of land mobile communication include connected vehicle.
    He graduated with a Bachelor of information and communication at the University Of Tokyo, Japan.

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    Toshihiro Sugi

    Director
    Automated Driving Planning Office
    National Police Agency
    Japan

    Mr. Sugi joined National Police Agency (NPA) in Japan after graduation from Waseda University with Bachelor of Arts in Commerce, and has been engaged in making policies on traffic management more than 10 years.
    He also has been coping with international affairs. He worked at the Embassy of Japan in Israel as a consul from 1998 to 2001, and was engaged in international cooperation as the Assistant Director of International Affairs Division in NPA from 2005 to 2007.
    He took office as the Director of Automated Driving planning Office at NPA in June of 2017.

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    Koichi Sakai

    Associate Professor
    The University of Tokyo
    Japan

    Koichi Sakai is currently an Associate Professor at the Advanced Mobility Research Center (ITS Center), Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo from 2016. He joined the Ministry of Construction (currently the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) in 1998. He was a Senior Researcher, ITS Division, National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism from 2008 to 2014. He was involved in research and development of V2I communication systems in expressways and international collaborative activities with U.S. and EU. He was dispatched to Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, the European Commission from October 2012 to March 2013 to enhance the EU-Japan cooperation in the field of Intelligent Transport Systems. His research interests include traffic engineering and Intelligent Transport Systems.

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    Bart van Arem

    Director
    TU Delft Transport Institute
    Delft University of Technology
    The Netherlands

    Prof Dr Bart van Arem is a full professor in Transport Modellng at TU Delft since 2009 and scientific director of the TU Delft Transport Institute since 2011. His research and education evolve around analysing and modelling the implications of intelligent transport systems. He finds motivation and meaning of his scientific work in the interaction with students, fellow academics and private and public partners. He teaches courses on Intelligent Transport Systems at BSc and MSc level and supervised over 100 MSc students and 15 PhD researchers. In 2017 he received the Institutional Lead Award of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation System Society for his leadership of the TU Delft Automated Driving Research Program. Under his leadership TU Delft was ranked 1st (2017) and 3rd (2018) in Transportation Science and Technology in the Shanghai World Ranking of Academic Subjects. In his 15 year academic career so far, he co-authored over 150 papers and has a quickly growing H index of 21 (Scopus, October 2018). He is an active member of the IEEE Intelligent Transport Systems Society and various committees of the Transportation Research Board. He has worked in numerous EU funded projects such as eImpact, SAFESPOT, CVIS and HF Auto. He is Principle Investigator of the NWO funded projects Taking the Fast Lane in the Open Technology Program, Spatial and Transport impacts of Automated Driving (STAD), in the Smart Urban Regions of the Future program and of the Project ‘Meaningful Human Control over Automated Driving Systems’ in the Responsible Innovation programme.

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    Felix Fahrenkrog

    BMW
    Germany

    Felix Fahrenkrog studied mechanical engineering with the focus on automotive engineering at RWTH Aachen University. From 2009 to 2016 he has been employed as a Scientific Engineer in the ADAS Department of automotive engineering institute of the RWTH Aachen University (ika). Since 2016 he is working in the effectiveness analysis group of BMW AG. He holds a doctorate from RWTH Aachen University in mechanical engineering.

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    Hiroaki Miyoshi

    Professor
    Doshisya University
    Japan

    Hiroaki Miyoshi is the Director General of the Institute for Technology, Enterprise and Competitiveness at Doshisha University. He has conducted many analyses of diffusion policy of advanced driver-assistance systems from the view point of public economics.

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    Nobuyuki Uchida

    Manager
    Japan Automobile Research Institute
    Japan

    Nobuyuki Uchida has been a researcher at the Japan Automobile Research Institute, since 1994. His research interest include the understanding of accident causation mechanisms and simulation of the common accident scenarios, for developing better preventive measures. From 2016, he is the Japanese co-leader of Trilateral (EU-US-Japan) Impact Assessment sub-group for Automation in Road Transportation.

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    Jaap Vreeswijk

    MAP Traffic Management
    The Netherlands

    Dr.ir. Jaap Vreeswijk is Traffic Architect C-ITS at MAP traffic management since 2015. He graduated at the University of Twente as a civil engineer specialised in ITS and later received his PhD degree in travel choice behaviour. Jaap has over 10 years’ experience working on mainly international research, innovation and pilot projects dealing with smart mobility and connected and automated driving. The focus of his work has been the perspective of the infrastructure and traffic management, for example designing new ways of executing traffic management and adapting to changes to the role of traffic management. Jaap’s expertise and interest are in the design and assessment phases, new concepts of operation, societal relevance, and practical application of theory. Currently, Jaap is active in the EU-funded projects TransAID and MAVEN, both dealing with centralised management for automated vehicles.

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    Adrian Zlocki

    Head of Automated Driving
    Automated Driving
    FKA
    Germany

    Dr.-Ing. Adrian Zlocki studied automotive engineering at the RWTH-Aachen University (Technical University Aachen). During his studies he stayed abroad for one research semester at the POSTECH University in Pohang, South-Korea. Since 2004 he has been employed as a Scientific Engineer at the ADAS department of the “Institut fuer Kraftfahrzeuge der RWTH Aachen University“ (ika), the Institute for Automotive Engineering. Between 2007 and 2010 he lead a research group in the field of ADAS development and assessment at ika. He is currently head of fka’s Automated Driving department. He holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering from RWTH Aachen University.

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    Masayuki Kawamoto

    Professor
    University of Tsukuba
    Japan

    Masayuki (Mark) Kawamoto owns 35 years experience in TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION as engineer, researcher, R&D manager and corporate R&D portfolio manager in Electronic Control and Information Systems for vehicle safety and environment. In 2015 Mark started his career as a Professor at University of Tsukuba in Japan. Prof. Kawamoto’s research interests include Automation in Public Transport, First/Last Mile Mobility and Mobility Society Systems. Mark is the co-chair of Next Generation Transport WG with Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program in Japan

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    Adriano Alessandrini

    Professor
    DICEA
    University of Florence
    Italy

    Mechanical engineer with PhD in energy technologies Adriano Alessandrini (MAle) is currently associate professor of transportation (ICAR-05) at the University of Florence. Since 1998 he has participated in more than 30 research projects, including the founding project of the Centre for Transport and Logistics of the university of Rome La Sapienza (CTL) recognized as an Italian excellence centre in 2003 by the Ministry.
    His main research interests are the environmental impact of vehicles (and drivers) and automated transport systems. CityMobil2, the largest European initiative on fully automated road transport systems which he coordinated, made him one of the most visible scientists in the automated road vehicle sector generating speaking requests and participation to high level round-tables and committees.
    He was asked to hold lectures in Princeton at the Technical University of Delft and at the DG MOVE of the European Commission.
    In 2015 he was selected to be one of the 25 scientists representing Europe at the EU-US Automation symposium in Washington in April 2015.
    For his vision of a new society generated by automated transport he was shortlisted twice 2014 and 2016 for the EU Champion of Transport Research prize.
    He is regularly asked to be an evaluator for the European Commission (and its INEA agency) for research, innovation and infrastructural proposals as well as to evaluate projects.
    In 2015 he served upon request the President of the United States as Evaluator for The National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP).

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    Kian Keong Chin

    Chief Engineer
    Road & Traffic
    Land Transport Authority
    Singapore

    An engineer by training, Dr Chin has been involved in the planning, designing, implementing and managing of various road and traffic management projects in Singapore, including the current Electronic Road Pricing project that started operations in 1998. Presently, he is involved in the on-going satellite-based road pricing project and various activities for the introduction of Autonomous Vehicles in Singapore. He became a Group Director at the LTA in 2007 and is now the Chief Engineer, Road & Traffic. Over the years, he had shared his experiences at many conferences and publications, and also taught at the local Universities’ Masters programme in transportation.

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    Hidehiko Enomoto

    Deputy General Manager
    Technical Research Centre
    Hino Motors, Ltd
    Japan

    Hidehiko Enomoto has more than 30 years’ experience in research and development of safety of commercial vehicles at technical research center of Hino Motors, Ltd. He started his carrier with the passive safety of trucks and buses then moved to active safety and automated driving studies. He not only led the research activities in the company, but also had roles as an expert and working group leader in both governmental activities and industry association’s activities.
    He is now the leader of working group for truck platooning standardization in Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Inc., and also the leader of current demonstration experiments of truck platooning where all four truck manufacturers in Japan are participating.
    Hidehiko Enomoto has more than 30 years’ experience in research and development of safety of commercial vehicles at technical research center of Hino Motors, Ltd. He started his carrier with the passive safety of trucks and buses then moved to active safety and automated driving studies. He not only led the research activities in the company, but also had roles as an expert and working group leader in both governmental activities and industry association’s activities.
    He is now the leader of working group for truck platooning standardization in Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Inc., and also the leader of current demonstration experiments of truck platooning where all four truck manufacturers in Japan are participating.

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    Nadege Faul

    Project Manager
    Eco Mobility
    VEDECOM
    France

    Nadège FAUL has a 24 years’ experience as a senior executive in the automotive industry (PSA group, 1993-2014), in international distribution, dealer network management, and customer service development. She is graduated from Neoma Business School, and joined PSA Group in 1990 after a first experience in the banking sector. In 2011, she created the new mobility services division for PSA group and managed the strategic platform that ended up with the creation of the Connected Services and New mobility Business Unit in 2014. She then joined VEDECOM as Project Manager, where she is leading research projects on new mobility services based on automated vehicles. She is contributing to several European projects (ESPRIT, CoExist, CARTRE, ARCADE), and is the coordinator of the French EVAPS project for VEDECOM. She has an active role in the French NFI Programme, in the field of new mobility systems, as well as in several collaborative projects for the introduction of automated vehicles in the public transport. Her projects are focusing on the technologic and socio-economic challenges of the operation of connected and automated vehicles in urban and peri-urban areas, for the sake of safer and more intelligent cities. They are investigating the various possible types of services, infrastructures, and operating scenarios, in order to foster a quick and sustainable roadmap towards automation.

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    Sadahiro Kawahara

    JTEKT CORPORATION
    Japan

    Sadahiro Kawahara has 14 years' experience as engineer, researcher and R&D manager in R&D Headquarters of JTEKT CORPORATION, after 13 years career as an engineer of driver control devices in NISSAN MOTOR CORPORATION. His major research topics are steering and vehicle system control including human machine interface and autonomous driving. He is involving the precise docking system development for Next Generation Transport with Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program ‘Automated driving systems’ at Cabinet Office, Government of Japan.

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    Maurice Kwakkernaat

    Program Manager
    TNO
    The Netherlands

    Dr. Maurice KWAKKERNAAT holds a position at TNO – the Dutch Center for Applied Scientific Research – as Program Manager Automated Driving and deputy Research Manager of the Integrated Vehicle Safety department. He is responsible for accelerating research, development and deployment in the field of Connected Automated Driving. He actively contributes to a wide range of National and International research projects and is also initiator of several large scale projects in the field of Connected Automated Driving systems such as i-GAME (EU 2013-2016), CargoANTs (EU 2013-2016) and the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge (GCDC, 2011, 2016). He has a background in sensor and communication technology and received his PhD (2008) in electrical engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology.

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    Elizabeth Machek

    Volpe Center
    United States Department of Transportation
    USA

    Elizabeth (Eli) Machek is a Community Planner in the Technology Innovation and Policy Division of the USDOT Volpe National Transportation Systems Center. Eli joined the Volpe Center in 2003 and has experience in transportation planning and policy analysis, with applications in areas including automation, alternative transportation, parking management, accessibility, and intelligent transportation systems. She manages automation research projects for the Federal Transit Administration, Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (ITS JPO), and the Office of the Under Secretary for Policy.

    Eli was selected as a member of the 14th class of Maureen and Mike Mansfield Fellows, spending a year embedded in the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism; local government offices; and Tokyo Metro. Ms. Machek holds a Master in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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    Steven Shladover

    California PATH
    USA

    Dr. Steven Shladover has been researching road vehicle automation systems for 45 years, beginning with his masters and doctoral theses at M.I.T. He was the Program Manager, Mobility at the California PATH Program of the Institute of Transportation Studies of the University of California at Berkeley until his retirement in November 2017. He led PATH’s pioneering research on automated highway systems, including its participation in the National Automated Highway Systems Consortium from 1994-98, and has continued research on fully and partially automated vehicle systems since then. This work has included definition of operating concepts, modeling of automated system operations and benefits, and design, development and testing of full-scale prototype vehicle systems. His target applications have included cooperative adaptive cruise control, automated truck platoons, automated buses and fully-automated vehicles in an automated highway system.

    Dr. Shladover joined the PATH Program in 1989, after eleven years at Systems Control, Inc. and Systems Control Technology, Inc., where he led the company’s efforts in transportation systems engineering and computer-aided control engineering software products. He chaired the Transportation Research Board Committee on Intelligent Transportation Systems from 2004-2010, and currently chairs the TRB Committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation. Dr. Shladover leads the U.S. delegation to ISO/TC204/WG14, which is developing international standards for “vehicle-roadway warning and control systems”.

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    Satoshi Kitazaki

    Director
    Automotive Human Factors Research Center
    AIST
    Japan

    Dr. Kitazaki received his Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree of engineering from Kyoto University Japan in 1983 and 1985 respectively, and Ph.D. from the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Southampton, UK in 1995. He had been working for Nissan Motor as a human factors engineer from 1985 till 2012. His research and development in Nissan included human vibration and ride comfort, car sickness, seating ergonomics, fatigued driving, human machine interfaces, and driver support systems. Between 2012 and 2015, Dr. Kitazaki was a professor in Neurology, University of Iowa, US, where he conducted research for safety of older drivers and drivers with medical problems, and also human factors in automated driving. He has been working in AIST as the first Director of Automotive Human Factors Research Center since April 1st 2015. The vision of his Research Center is to establish human-centered methodologies to design vehicles to be safe, comfortable and enjoyable for all drivers. The researchers are conducting research in three main fields; support of older drivers, human factors in automated driving and driving pleasure based on their core competencies, which are integrative approaches to understanding of drivers using behavioral, cognitive, neurological and physiological measures. Dr. Kitazaki also has been the leader of SIP-adus Human Factors research project which started in 2016 as a three-year project by a consortium with two universities and a supplier.

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    Klaus Bengler

    Professor
    Chair of Ergonomics
    Technical University of Munich
    Germany

    Full Professor (W3) for Ergonomics, Chair of Ergonomics, Technical University of Munich

    Education and Work Experience
    1986 - 1991 Study: Psychology (Diploma), University of Regensburg
    1991 - 1991 Freelancer TUV Suddeutschland, Division "Human and Technology"
    1991 - 1992 Assistant at the Chair of Experimental Psychology and Methodology, University of Regensburg
    1992 - 1995 PhD Thesis in Cooperation with BMW AG, Topic: "Design and Experimental Evaluation of Different Forms of Presenting Navigation Information in Vehicles", University of Regensburg, magna cum laude (0,83)
    1994 - 1997 Self‐employed, Ergonomic Consulting and Evaluation of Control and Display Concepts
    1997 - 2000 Employee, Human Machine Interaction Team, BMW AG
    2000 - 2009 Head of the Team for Human Machine Interaction, BMW Research and Technology and Head of the BMW Usability Lab
    since 2009 Full Professor, Chair of Ergonomics, Technical University of Munich

    Memberships and Awards
    Chairman Work Group - Standards Committee A052‐02‐71‐10 Human as Driver
    Representative of the German Delegation ISO TC22/SC13/ SC17WG8
    Member of the VDI Work Group Reliability
    Scientific Board Member IEA Conference Digital Human Models
    Member Work Group Research, Round Table "Automated Driving" of the Federal Ministry of Transportation and Digital Infrastructure

    Research Focus
    Driver Assistance, Cooperative Driving, Human Reliability, Digital Human Modelling

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    Peter Burns

    Chief
    Human Factors and Crash Avoidance
    Transport Canada
    Canada

    Dr. Peter Burns is Chief of the Human Factors & Crash Avoidance division at Transport Canada. His division develops test methods and conducts applied research on human factors and the safety performance of vehicle systems. His research is currently examining the risks of interaction with automation, test methods, interface design and the importance of appropriate trust in automation. This work supports the development of federal and international motor vehicle safety standards. Peter is also an expert on the ISO/ SAE Joint Working Group (SAE J3016 / ISO 22736) to develop a Taxonomy and Definitions for Terms related to Driving Automation Systems for On-road Motor Vehicles.

    Before Transport Canada, Peter worked as a Research Fellow at the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) in the U.K and for Volvo in Gothenburg Sweden. He received a doctorate degree in Automotive Human Factors from Loughborough University in England and a Masters in Traffic Psychology from Queen’s University in Canada. Peter has over 25 years of experience in the field of road safety research.

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    Michiaki Sekine

    Principal Researcher
    Automotive Safety Research Department
    National Traffic Safety and Environment Laboratory
    Japan

    Dr. Sekine is a principal researcher at Traffic Safety and Environment Laboratory. His specialty is the active safety system to prevent car traffic accidents from the perspective of human factors. In particular, he clarified driver's behavior when providing auditory warnings and information, and based on these findings, his research group has proposed design methods for desirable warning and information provision system. Recent research concern is to propose appropriate driving support method for elderly drivers based on their cognitive and physical characteristics. Besides the above, he had served as a secretariat of ITS/AD informal group World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29) in the United Nations from 2014 to 2018. ITS/AD had discussed the basic concept and the direction of establishing international regulations for automated driving technology. He will introduce the issues related to human factors included in the WP.29 discussion.

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    C. Y. David Yang

    Executive Director
    AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
    USA

    Dr. C. Y. David Yang is the Executive Director of AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and he oversees the day-to-day operations of this non-profit research and education organization. Previously, he was with U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Dr. Yang was the recipient of FHWA Administrator’s Leadership Award and U.S. DOT Secretary’s Partnering for Excellence Award in 2014. Prior joining FHWA, David worked in private consulting firms and U.S. DOT’s Volpe National Transportation Systems Center.

    Dr. Yang has authored/co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, and government reports on subjects related to transportation safety, operations, planning, and Intelligent Transportation Systems. An ITE Journal article he co-authored won Institute of Transportation Engineers’ 2015 Traffic Engineering Council Best Paper Award. David is the Chair for Transportation Research Board’s Users Performance Section. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems and International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology. Dr. Yang served as a co-editor for a special issue of Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems titled ‘Connected and Automated Vehicles,’ with Volume 1 published in 2017 and Volume 2 published in 2018. Dr. Yang is currently on several advisory boards of transportation research centers/programs.

    Dr. Yang attended Purdue University and received his Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in the field of civil engineering. In April 2018, he was honored with the Civil Engineering Alumni Achievement Award from Purdue University.