Program Manager Autonomous Systems

James Oliver holds the title of University Professor at Iowa State University (ISU), serves as the Pithan Executive Director of the Innovation and is the inaugural Director of ISU’s Student Innovation Center. In this role, Oliver provides overall leadership, vision and direction for the facility – including planning and implementing academic programming – and fosters engagement among students and external stakeholders. For the previous 15 years Oliver served as Director of ISU’s Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC), an interdisciplinary research center focused on emerging interface technologies. Professor Oliver also developed and directed ISU’s Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) that complements the VRAC’s research mission by providing PhD, MS, and Professional Certificate degrees in HCI. Professor Oliver’s research spans a wide array of emerging interface technologies, encompassing computer graphics, geometric modeling, virtual and augmented reality, and collaborative networks for applications in product development, complex system operation and training. Several Federal agencies, including the NSF, NASA, ONR, AFRL, US Army, as well as numerous industry partners have funded his research. Oliver is a Fellow of the ASME, holds three U.S. patents, and is the recipient of numerous professional honors and awards. In addition to his Iowa State responsibilities, Oliver co-founded BodyViz, a technology startup focused on low-cost, easy-to-use medical visualization with sales in the medical, education, veterinary and legal markets; and he formerly headed software product development for Engineering Animation Inc., (NASDAQ: EAII)

Head of Autonomous Vehicle Simulation & Virtual reality department, Renault, France

CTO, Cruden, The Netherlands

Managing Director, ASCS e.V, Germany

Co-founder and CTO , Pertech Solutions, France

Sharan Ramachandran serves as a Business Development Manager at rFpro, In this role he is responsible for driving the company's growth and expand its market presence globally. A highly experienced professional in the automotive technology sector, Sharan has over 12 years of experience in the Automotive Technology sector. He has worked with renowned brands such as Rheinmetall, EJOT and TVS Group delivering innovative solutions and helping customers drive growth. In addition Sharan has played a pivotal role in the rapid scaling of a tech driven logistics start-up based out of London as well. Sharan holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Anna University and an MBA from Durham University, combining technical expertise with a strong foundation in business management. Passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technologies, Sharan is committed to driving sustainable innovation and efficiency in the automotive sector.

Co-founder of Scale-1 Portal, specializing in the development of immersive technologies for industry and gaming, and Co-founder of MoveR, a startup specializing in the treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders, Emmanuel has held management and project management positions for 14 years within the Renault group, in the fields of IT, driving simulation, and immersive simulation. Since 2022, Emmanuel Icart has been a board member and treasurer of La French Tech Paris Saclay

Dr. Arnold Free has thirty years of experience in growing simulation-based technology businesses for vehicle and defense industry applications. He is the co-founder of Traxara, a Canadian technology company creating haptic robotics that interact with humans in real, virtual and teleoperated environments. Traxara’s goal is to redefine high-performance motion and haptics for driving simulators though its vertically integrated TDrive framework.

Zero Prototype Evangelist, VI-grade, Italy

Commercial Manager, Dynisma, United Kingdom Will Snyder serves as a key contact for anyone seeking advanced driving simulator solutions across the automotive and motorsport industries. With a Master of Engineering (MEng) in Automotive Engineering and over 10 years of experience in automotive design, Will has led numerous complex projects, including engine components for the Triumph 765 triple and the championship-winning Mercedes Formula 1 power units. His extensive technical expertise ensures that Dynisma's customers receive exceptional support, both technically and commercially. Transitioning into commercial roles, Will spent over two years as a Sales Engineer at IPG Automotive, delivering software and hardware packages to major OEMs. This role, in partnership with Dynisma Motion Generators, enhanced his industry knowledge, particularly in driving simulation technology and its applications.

I am Thomas Karasiewicz, a graduate engineer from Arts et Métiers in France and KIT in Germany. 7 years ago, I joined IPG Automotive in Germany at the headquarters alongside my studies. Then in 2019, I joined the French subsidiary as an Application Engineer. My role is to define and deploy MIL/HIL testing solutions to my customers and to support them in all their technical projects.

Associate Professor at University of Caen Normandy

Business Development Director / Automotive Consultant Salman has over 15 years experience in Automotive test systems, vehicle development and academic research. He qualified as an Automotive Engineer to join HORIBA Ltd as a graduate engineer working in engine, powertrain, chassis, and on-road test environments. He later specialized in homologation and successfully delivered vehicle programs for JLR and FORD. He later moved to AVL as a subject matter expert of Digital Twins. During his time with AVL, he has provided consultancy on large scale digital transformation projects to create digital twins of test tracks, vehicle as a system and components, driver behavior, and laboratories to facilitate virtual testing of ADAS and AV technology for global OEM’s like Ford, Honda, Hyundai, GM, BMW, JLR and VW. He is a member of the Industrial advisory board for Sussex university, a visiting faculty member of reputed UK universities and has partnered in numerous vehicle dynamics and human factors research projects. Currently he works for Ansible Motion, pioneer in Driver in the loop simulator technology, providing technical consultancy to customers developing vehicle powertrains, tires, sensor arrays, ADAS and AV technologies with humans at the center of development process helping make critical subjective design decisions at an early stage

InnerEye Product Line Manager at Macnica ATD Europe

Sales Manager Motion Simulation Technology, Van Halteren Technologies, Netherlands

Product Manager at Volkswagen. Responsible of a team, which develops software solutions for virtual validations in driving simulators. Main areas: In-Car-Functions User Experience (UX) Human Machine Interface (HMI) Virtual and Extended Reality (VR / XR)

Mohamed AbdElSalam received his B.Sc. and M.S Degree from Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, and Doctor of Information Science and Technology from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. He joined Mentor Graphics 1998-2002 working in development of circuit simulation, and HDL Design tools and again from 2008 to present as Software Engineering Director working in Hardware Assisted Verification Platform (HAV) division working in hardware emulation targets, memory softmodels, Virtual Devices and since 2022 targeting new vertical market segment for digital twin simulation with Pre-Silicon verification

Global SimCenter Manager Vehicle Dynamics and Race Engineering background -Working for VI-grade from/with 10 years of Driving simulator expertise -Currently takeing care of customer activities in VI-grade Simcenters worldwide

Raul Ferreira is a technical leader for EU innovative projects at Continental Engineering Services. He has a BSc, MSc, and PhD in Computer Science, focusing on Systems Engineering and AI domains

CTO, Cruden, The Netherlands

Head of Autonomous Vehicle Simulation & Virtual reality department, Renault, France

Jelte Bos holds an MSc in physics and a PhD in medicine. His professional interests concern effects of physical and visual self-motion on safety, health, performance and wellbeing, with a special interest in understanding and modelling self-motion perception and motion sickness. He is employed by TNO, a Dutch not for profit applied scientific research organisation, and holds a chair at the faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Also see www.jeltebos.info.

Hello, my name is Tessa. Almost three years ago, I graduated with a master's in Vehicle Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands. Even though I then moved abroad to Czech Republic, to contribute to automotive (pre)development for Skoda Auto and the Volkswagen Group, I have always stayed in close contact with my two supervisors from Delft. In the past years, we have continued our "hobby" (research in driving simulators and motion sickness) and they co-authored also today's contribution. What's next? I will switch from industry to academia again, to start my PhD in the Max Planck Institute of Intelligent Systems in Germany, in a few week's time.

Ammar Ridzuan is an RnD engineer at AVSimulation, currently working alongside IRT SystemX on the CVH project, with a focus on sensor modelling for the validation of connected automated vehicles.

Marco Scheffmann studied vehicle and engine engineering at the University of Stuttgart. After completing his studies, he earned his doctorate in the field of mechatronics. He currently works at the FKFS as a senior expert in the department of the Stuttgart driving simulator

Alia Salah works as R&D engineer at FKFS in Stuttgart. Her research interests are in the fields of: Fault Detection and Diagnosis Data Science Automatic control systems and fault tolerant control Currently she is perusing her PhD degree in engineering at the university of Stuttgart.

Robert is a Ph.D. student at BMW Group and Technical University of Munich, supervised by Prof. Dirk Wollherr and Prof. Marion Leibold. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich. Throughout his PhD research, he dealt with topics related to motion cueing algorithms with a particular focus on model predictive control based methods for efficient and human-centric motion cueing.

Maurice Kolff is a researcher working at BMW Group. His PhD focus and research interest lies with motion perception and subjective evaluations of motion cueing quality

Zhou FANG is expert of immersive driving simulation at Renault and his main expertise domains: vehicle dynamics driver model control-command for the motion cueing algorithm

Name: Andreas Dieing
Day of birth: 21.03.1995 Work History:

Research Associate for Automotive Mechatronics since 2022.   Education:   PhD Student since 2022, University of Stuttgart M.Sc. Fahrzeug- und Motorentechnik, University of Stuttgart 2019-2022 B.Sc. Fahrzeug- und Motorentechnik, University of Stuttgart 2015-2019

 Skills:

Matlab/Simulink CAD Siemens NX Java Exa PowerFlow   Interests   Driving Simulators Steering Systems Vehicle Dynamics

Dr. Andrea Sammartino works as Project Coordination Manager at MegaRide, a spin-off company of the University of Naples, whose target is the development of vehicle dynamics and tire/road interaction physical models. His daily work focuses on models' development, parameterization and calibration for the optimization of tire performance in motorsports, in Driver-in-the-Loop systems and in smart mobility scenarios. His most recent work experience has also allowed him to specialize in business development and partners’ engagement, supporting OEMs in the development of testing methodologies and the tire digitalization phase. His efforts in the growth of the startup project led to the Tire Technology of the Year award in 2018 and the Development Tool of the Year award in 2019