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Biographies
Jean-Marie Bonnin,
Institut TELECOM /TELECOM
Bretagne
Jean-Marie Bonnin is born in
1968 in Paris/France. After a
PhD degree in computer science
at the university of Strasbourg
in 1998, he came to TELECOM
Bretagne for a research
position.
He is currently associate
professor in the “Networks,
Security and Multimedia”
department where he leads the
Mobility research team.
Since September 2001, he is
mainly interested in the
convergence between IP networks
and mobile telephony networks,
and therefore in heterogeneous
handover. More recently he has
been involved in projects
dealing with the mobility of the
networks and its application to
ITS (Intelligent Transportation
System).
He is involved in several
collaborative research projects
at European level and through
international academic
collaborations (mainly with Asia
and North Africa). |
Adam Brzozowski, Avanti
Communications
Adam Brzozowski joined Avanti in
2007 as Project Manager and has
been the SISTER Consortium
Manager since then. He has ten
years of Project Management
experience following the
completion of his degree in
Project Management and Business
Management and gaining Prince 2
accreditation. Adam has
extensive experience in managing
complex projects in telematics,
marketing, satellite technology
and European projects. He
specialises in multi criteria
decision analysis, risk and
feasibility analysis and multi
attribute value theory. Adam is
also skilled in soft system
methodology for strategic system
analysis. |
Ivan Capelli, F1 driver,
Monza Research Institute
Ivan Capelli, born in Milan,
Italy, on 24 May 1963, began his
career as a kart driver when he
was 15 years old. After four
years he moved to the Italian
Formula Three Championship, in
1983 he became Italian Formula
Three champion, in 1985 he
graduated to the European
Formula 3000 Championship and
the same year he debuted in
Formula 1, driving a Tyrrell,
and finishing a tremendous 4th
in Australia. Despite this
outstanding result, he was not
picked up for a full time F1
drive in 1986. Only in 1987
Capelli was F1 full-time with
the March team, in 1992 with
Ferrari Team and in 1993 with
Jordan.
Besides, he’s been Commentator
of the whole Formula One events
for the Italian National Channel
Television RAI from 1998,
Director Of the driving school
“Master GT Maserati” from 1999,
Instructor at the driving school
“Pilota Ferrari” from 1998 and
CEO of Motivegeeks Labs, company
involved in identification,
tracking and security
technological systems for
people, vehicles and goods. |
Wai Chen, Telcordia
Technologies and Toyota
InfoTechnology Center
Wai Chen received his B.S.E.E.
degree from Zhejiang University;
M.S.E.E., M.Phil., and Ph.D.
degrees from Columbia University
in the City of New York.
Currently, he is a Director and
Chief Scientist at Applied
Research, Telcordia Technologies
Inc. (formerly known as Bellcore).
Dr. Chen has been leading a
vehicular communications
research program in
collaboration with a major
automaker, since 2000, on
automotive networking
technologies for vehicle safety
and information applications. He
has also been the Principal
Investigator of several
government funded projects on
advanced networking technologies
research. Dr. Chen is the Series
Editor for Automotive Networking
– Technology, Design, and
Applications of the IEEE
Communications Magazine, served
as a Guest Editor for Special
Issue on Inter Vehicular
Communication (IVC) for IEEE
Wireless Communications Magazine
(2006), the IEEE Distinguished
Lecturer (2004-2006), the
Co-Chair for Vehicle-to-Vehicle
Communications Workshop (V2VCOM
2005–2008) co-located at IEEE
Intelligent Vehicles Symposium,
the Co-Chair for the IEEE
Workshop on Automotive
Networking and Applications (AutoNet
2006–2008) co-located with IEEE
Globecom, the Co-Chair for
Vehicular Communication
Technologies and Systems Track
for IEEE Vehicular Technology
Conference (VTC) 2009 Spring, a
Guest Editor for Special Issue
on Wireless Vehicular
Communications for the Wireless
Communications and Mobile
Computing (2009), a Guest Editor
for Special Issue on Delay
Tolerant Networks for the
Journal of Communications, and
the Co-Chair for the upcoming
IEEE Vehicle Networking
Conference 2009. |
Francesco Di Corpo, TeMa.Mobility Consortium
Francesco Di Corpo is a Research
Staff Member and Project Leader
in Telecom Italia Innovation
Center TILAB in Turin.
He received his master degree in
telecommunication engineering
from University of L'Aquila
(Italy).
He has been working for several
years in TIM prototyping and
implementing value added
services for consumer market in
particular GIS services.
He is an Engineering Staff
Member of TelecomItalia Service
Delivery Platform working group
and he’s focused on network
capabilities exposure for M2M
interaction.
He's currently collaborating
with TeMa.Mobility consortium
(between TelecomItalia and
Magneti Marelli) in which he’s
involved in designing and
deploying innovative
VehicleTracking and Infomobility
applications. |
Bernard Dugerdil, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Bernard Dugerdil is working in
the Telecommunication Industry
for more than 30 years and is
currently responsible to
Coordinate Standards within
Freescale Semiconductor (Freescale
became a publicly traded company
in July 2004 after more than 50
years as part of Motorola, Inc).
Bernard is involved in Standards
for more than 15 years. He is
part of Broadband Forum
Technical committee leadership
team (and one of the founder of
DSL Forum), member of HGI (Home
Gateway Initiative) Board of
Director and member of ETSI
Board of Director.
Bernard is an active participant
to ITU-T and first contact for
Freescale Semiconductor.
Bernard is currently involved in
the ETSI ITS (Intelligent
Transport System) TC (Technical
Committee) and in the M2M
(Machine to Machine) TC.
Bernard is part of ITU-T “The
Fully Networked Car” workshop
steering committee. |
Guido Gehlen, Ericsson GmbH
Guido Gehlen received his
diploma degree in Electrical
Engineering from the RWTH Aachen
University, Germany, in 2001. In
2002 he joined the Chair of
Communication Networks (ComNets),
RWTH Aachen University, as a
Research Engineer where he was
involved in a German logistics
project and in the European
research project IST-MYCAREVENT.
He has finished in Oct. 2007 his
PhD thesis entitled “Mobile Web
Services - Concepts, Prototype,
and Traffic Performance”. Since
March 2007 he is working for
Ericsson Eurolab as a project
leader of the German research
project “Cooperative Cars” (CoCar,
part of the AKTIV initiative). |
Hans Gierlich,
Head Acoustics GmbH
H. W. Gierlich was born in 1957
in Bergisch Gladbach, FRG. In 1976 he graduated from high school and began
his studies of electrotechnique at the university RWTH Aachen. In 1983 he
received his diploma and from 1983 March to 1988 December he worked at the
Institute for Communication Engineering at RWTH, Aachen. In 1988 February he
received a Ph. D. in electrical engineering. Special topics of his work:
Speech intelligibility aspects of telephones and hands-free telephony. In
1988 he was the leader of the acoustic research group at this institute. In
1989 he joined HEAD acoustics GmbH in Aachen where he is as vice president
responsible for research and development. He is mainly involved in
acoustics, specifically psychoacoustics, binaural simulation, measurement
technology and speech transmission in telecommunication. His main activities
are in the fields of speech intelligibility and speech quality especially in
modern telecommunication systems, binaural signal processing especially
binaural simulation
technology and digital signal processing. He is active in the international
standardization organizations ITU-T, ISO and ETSI as well as in the national
standardization DIN and ZVEI. Amongst other he is currently involved in
various European projects.
He is author of more than 150 scientific papers in the field of binaural
technology, telecommunication and signal processing published in various
magazines and proceedings. H. W. Gierlich holds three patents in the field
of telecommunication and two patents in binaural technology. He is member of
DEGA and VDE and vice president of ETSI STQ. |
Burkhard Göschel,
CTO Vehicles & Powertrain Group Magna International,
Chairman to the Grand Prix Manufacturers Association (GPMA),
Chairman to the Formula 1 Manufacturers Advisory
Committee
29.10.1945 Born in Ranis,
Germany
1965 Abitur (final
school-leaving examination
qualifying for university
studies)
1965 - 1970 Studied mechanical
engineering at Munich Technical
University, graduated as a
Diplom-Ingenieur
1971 - 1976 Institute for Engine
Construction, Munich
1976 Doctor`s degree at
Stuttgart Technical University
1976 - 1977 Engineer at
Daimler-Benz AG
January 1978 Joined BMW AG,
Engine Development
1989 - 1992 Director of
Motorcycle Development
1992 - 1993 Project Manager
Roadster
1993 - 1999 Director of Special
Models Series
1999 - 2000 Director of Overall
Vehicle Development
March 2000 Member of the Board
of Management of BMW AG,
Development and Purchasing
October 2003 Honorary
Professorship University of
Technology Graz
July 2004 Honorary Doctorate
University of Technology Munich
Nov. 2006 retired Member of the
Board of Management of BMW AG
Feb. 2007 Member of the Board of
Directors of Maxwell
Technologies
Sept. 2007 CTO Vehicles and
Powertrain MAGNA International |
James Gover,
IEEE
James Gover has BS and MS
degrees in electrical
engineering and a Ph.D. in
nuclear engineering from the
University of New Mexico. He was
employed at Sandia National
Laboratories in Albuquerque, New
Mexico, for 35 years with much
of his work directed to the
study of the effects of nuclear
countermeasures in nuclear
systems. He was named an IEEE
Fellow for work he did in
radiation effects. During his
tenure at Sandia he spent ten
years in public policy research
including five years in
Washington, DC, serving as an
IEEE Congressional Fellow and
IEEE Competiveness Fellow
working as a science and
technology advisor in the
offices of Senator Domenici,
Senator Roth, The US House of
Representatives Science
Committee, Department of Energy
and the Technology
Administration of the Department
of Commerce. IEEE awarded him
the Citation of Honor for his
policy work. He has been
Professor of Electrical
Engineering at Kettering
University (formerly General
Motors Institute) in Flint, MI
for the past ten years.. His
major research interest is
electrical drive trains for
hybrid vehicles. His numerous
IEEE activitities include Vice
President of Automotive, IEEE
Vehicular Technology Society
Board of Governors. |
Denis Griot,
Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
Denis Griot is senior vice
president and chairman, Europe,
Middle East & Africa (EMEA)
region, and Global Automotive
Marketing Lead for Freescale
Semiconductor, the global leader
in embedded processing
solutions.
Denis joined Motorola's European
semiconductor business in 1984
as director of operations for
the Logic Analog and Intelligent
Power Systems Division of
Motorola in Europe. Before that
he served as director of Analog
Integrated Circuits European
operations.
In 1988, he was appointed vice
president and director of wafer
manufacturing. Most recently, he
was instrumental in the creation
and management of the Crolles2
Alliance, which represents an
unprecedented business model for
research and development in the
semiconductor industry.
In 1997, prior to his current
role, Denis managed the only
Motorola semiconductor division
headquartered outside the United
States. Based in Toulouse,
France he led the Transportation
Systems Group's Body Electronics
and Occupant Safety division.
This division ranks as the
world's No. 1 producer of
embedded solutions to the body
electronics and occupant safety
market. One year later, in 1998,
he was appointed corporate vice
president.
Denis was appointed Global
Automotive Marketing Lead in
2008, in addition to its
Freescale EMEA Chairman
responsibilities.
Before joining Motorola, Denis
spent 14 years with Philips
Corporation.
Denis holds five semiconductor
patents and earned the
Semiconductor International
Award in 1984 for outstanding
achievements in process
engineering for semiconductor
manufacturing. He earned
master's degrees in solid-state
physics and nuclear physics
respectively from INSEA Lyon and
INPG Grenoble, France. |
Tim Haulick,
Harman/Becker Automotive Systems
GmbH
TIM HAULICK received his
diploma degree and his doctoral degree in electrical engineering in 1992 and
1998, respectively from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Between 1993
and 1998 he worked as a research scientist for the Daimler-Benz Research
Institute in Ulm. In October 1998 he joined the department of speech
processing of the DaimlerChrysler Aerospace in Ulm. There he was responsible
for the development of hands-free algorithms for telephony and speech dialog
system applications. 1999 transition of the department of speech processing
from the DaimlerChrysler Aerospace to the TEMIC Telefunken Mikroelektronik
GmbH. As of 2002 he was appointed head of the acoustics team. In this
function he was responsible for all issues concerning acoustics, hands-free
telephony and speech enhancement. Early 2002 the separated TEMIC Speech
Dialog Systems GmbH became part of Harman/Becker Automotive Systems GmbH.
Since 2005 he has been responsible for the department of acoustic signal
processing as senior manager. |
Jean-Pierre Jallet, NXP
Semiconductors
Jean-Pierre Jallet is Technology
Program Leader within NXP
Corporate Innovation &
Technology Research, responsible
for speech processing
technology. He is active in
digital signal processing since
1981 and more specific in speech
processing since 1992. First at
SAIT Electronics (now Zenitel)
then, from 1987, at Philips and
since 2006 at NXP
Semiconductors, the independent
semiconductor company created
from the semiconductors division
of Philips.
The technologies he is
responsible for and he has been
working on since 1992 are
acoustical performances
improvement (acoustic echo
cancellation, noise reduction,
multiple microphone processing,
active noise reduction…) and
automatic speech recognition.
These technologies were applied
in car, mobile, home and office
applications. |
Markus Lienkamp, Group
Research, Volkswagen AG
1991 – Mechanical Engineering
Cornell University
1992 – 1995 PHD Materials
Science
1995 – 1996 International
Trainee, VW Kassel
1996 – 1998 Head of SET Chassis
AutoEuropa, Portugal
1998 – 2002 Head of brakes
testing, light trucks VW
2002 – 2003 Head of driving
dynamics + comfort, group
research, VW
2003 – 2004 Head of vehicle
dynamics, group research, VW
2004 – 2007 Head of vehicle
research, group research, VW
since 2008 Head of electronics
and vehicle research, group
research, VW |
Rainer Makowitz,
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Rainer Makowitz received the
Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical
Engineering from the University
of Stuttgart in 1981, and the
Dr.-Ing. degree from the
University of Kassel in 1990. He
joined Motorola Semiconductor
Products Sector in 1990, where
he held various positions in
product development and Systems
Engineering. Since 2008 he is
leading the global Automotive
System Solutions Engineering
team of Freescale Semiconductor,
headquartered in Munich,
Germany. |
Julien Masson, Connexis
Julien Masson, Director French
Operations, Connexis LLC, has
extensive experience in the
European Automotive Industry and
Telematics: after two years of
Engineering at Clarion, a
Radio-Navigation Tier1
Automotive supplier, he served
Nissan Europe Marketing and
Product Planning for five years,
defining cross-car-line audio,
telephony, and navigation
strategies in cooperation with
the Renault Product Planning and
e-Vehicle departments. He also
worked with Nissan’s telematics
division in Japan, studying
potential rollout of Carwings
Telematics services in other
regions. Before joining Connexis,
Mr. Masson was OEM account
manager for Renault and PSA at
Parrot, a French leader in
Bluetooth technology. Mr. Masson
holds a degree in engineering,
with a specialization in
electrical engineering and
telecommunications, from ENSI de
Caen (France). |
Kevin McKinley, Deputy
Secretary-General, ISO
Since 2003, Deputy
Secretary-General of the
International Organization for
Standardization (ISO). Based in
Geneva Switzerland, ISO is the
leading international
non-governmental standardization
organization comprising a
network of institutes from 157
countries, with a collection of
more than 17'700 published
standards and having an
extensive work programme dealing
with key global challenges in
such areas as healthcare, public
safety, information technology,
services, climate change,
energy, security and the social
responsibility of organizations.
Served three years as a Director
at the Standards Council of
Canada, a Crown Corporation
responsible for Canada's
National Standards System and
relations with key regional and
international organizations.
Previously held posts at the
Canadian Standards Association,
Canada's largest standards
development organization and
addressed national
standardization challenges in
business management, worker
safety and public services.
Professional career started in
1988 in the oil and gas industry
at Esso Petroleum Canada serving
as a Construction Project
Engineer and later as the
Contact Engineer supporting
Esso's environmental operations
at Sarnia Refinery in Ontario,
Canada.
Conducted studies in Canada
obtaining a Bachelor of Science
in 1985 from the University of
Ottawa and then a Mechanical
Engineering degree from Queens
University in Kingston, Ontario. |
Arnaud de Meulemeester, ATX Europe GmbH
GmbH
Arnaud de Meulemeester is
managing director of ATX Europe,
responsible for OEM sales
initiatives with European
automobile manufacturers. He
also assists in establishing the
strategy for and development of
new services.
De Meulemeester joined ATX from
PSA Peugeot Citroën, where he
was senior manager of telematics.
During his five years at PSA and
previously with Citroën, he was
responsible for deploying
telematics-based emergency and
traffic services, as well as
fleet management applications
within nine countries in western
Europe.
De Meulemeester holds an
engineering degree from Saint
Etienne and a post-graduate
degree from ISIA, Ecole des
Mines de Paris. |
Hermann Meyer, CEO, ERTICO
(ITS Europe)
Hermann Meyer was appointed
Chief Executive Officer of
ERTICO in December 2007 and took
up his responsibilities at the
beginning of February 2008.
Prior to this appointment, he
represented the interests of the
Volkswagen Group towards the EU
institutions in Brussels as head
of the Government Relations
Office. He joined Volkswagen in
1995 serving as manager in the
“Sustainability Strategy”
department and as head of
department “Technology and
Science” in the Government
Relations Offices in Bonn and
Berlin. He was seconded in
1996/1997 to the Principal
Policy Department in the German
Federal Ministry of Transport
and from 2003 to 2006 to the
European Car Manufacturing
Association (ACEA) as Director
Environmental Policies. Between
2001 and 2003, he was heading
the working group “vehicle
technologies” of the
“Sustainable Mobility 2030”
initiative of the World Business
Council for Sustainable
Development presenting the
conclusions to the World
Economic Forum in Davos 2003.
Hermann holds a Ph.D. from
Cambridge University and has
lectured environmental economics
and resource management at the
Edinburgh University between
1993 and 1995. |
Jean-Yves Monfort, France Telecom/Orange
Former Chair of ITU-T SG 12
(Until Oct 2008). Vice Chair of
ITU-T Focus Group CARCOM and
ETSI STQ Chairman.
Currently Senior Standardization
Manager, he was previously
Deputy Director of Standards
Steering in France Telecom, and
Senior Expert.
During 5 years, he was Deputy
Head of DIH/EQS Laboratory
(Human Interactions/ Evaluation
and acceptability of Services
Quality), in charge of studies
on subjective and objective
assessment of media (speech,
video, audio,…) and of Usability
testing of new equipments and
services.
He was before Manager of
Research and Development Units
specialized in voice
transmission quality, telephony
terminals and Electroacoustics.
Doctor Engineer of Applied
Acoustics, Le Mans
Electronics Engineer, ENSEEIHT,
Toulouse
He is the author of a lot of
technical specifications for
France Telecom, France, of ETSI
standards and ITU-T
Recommendations, and of
technical papers.
He gave numbers of conference on
speech quality, performance and
QoS in seminars, workshops and
congresses, including in close
relationship with his activity
of SG 12 Chairmanship (for APT,
West Africa, ETSI, ITU-T
workshops,…)
General Secretary of French
Acoustical Society during 5
years
Professor of Electro-acoustics
at the University (Sound and
mage) during more than 10 years.
Chevalier des Palmes Académiques.
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Asier Alonso Muńoz, TECNALIA-TELECOM
Asier Alonso was born in
Barakaldo, Spain. In 2004 he
received the engineering degree
in Electrical engineering from
the University of Deusto,
Bilbao, Spain. At this
university, he worked for a year
in the speech processing group
and in 2005 he joined the
technological centre Robotiker –
Tecnalia, were he is currently
working.
His main research interests are
digital signal processing
algorithms for SDR devices
applied to positioning and
intelligent transport systems. |
Michael Müter, Daimler AG
Michael Müter graduated with a
degree in Computer Science from
University of Technology,
Aachen, Germany in 2007 and
joined Daimler AG as a security
researcher in the SEVECOM
project afterwards. He has been
involved in the German Honeynet
Project and several other
security-related projects in
recent years. His research
interests include secure
communication systems and
vehicular security
architectures, but also comprise
more theoretical aspects of
reliable and dependable systems. |
Yushi Naito,
Chairman, ITU-T Study Group
16, (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
Yushi Naito was appointed to
ITU-T SG16 Chairman at the
WTSA-08 meeting held in
Johannesburg, South Africa in
2008.
He is a Senior Technical Adviser
at the Information Technology R
& D Center of Mitsubishi
Electric Corporation since April
2006.
He received B. E. and M. E. in
Electronics Engineering from
Kyoto University, Japan. He
joined Mitsubishi Electric
Corporation in 1975, starting
his carrier in the development
of Satellite Communication
Systems and extended his carrer
in research and development of
Speech Coding and Network Signal
Processing.
His ITU-T experience started in
1990 in SG15, and he has also
been collaborating with SG9, SG
11, SG12 and SG13. He was taking
the Rapporteurship of Circuit
Multiplexing Equipment questions
from 1992 to 2008. He also has
been participating in SG16
studies on speech coding since
the establishment of SG 16 in
1997.
He was appointed to Working
Party 2 chairman of SG15 fFrom
2000 to 2004, and appointed to
Vice-chairman and Working Party
1 chairman of SG16 from 2005 to
2008. He has also been actively
participated in Focus Group
activities in ITU-T on IPTV ,
From/In/To/Car Communication (FG-FITCAR)
and FG-FITCAR II.
From October 2008, he is in
current position. |
Marc Osajda, Freescale,
Semiconductor, Inc.
Marc Osajda is Global Automotive
Strategy Manager for Freescale
Semiconductor, the global leader
in embedded processing
solutions.
Marc joined Motorola's European
semiconductor business, now
Freescale, in 1992 as a
mechanical design engineer.
From 1995 to 2001, Marc was
involved with the European
Automotive industry,
respectively as application
engineer and then as European
automotive marketer for sensor
products.
Between 2001 and 2004 Marc
occupied the position of program
manager in charge of new
automotive product development.
In 2005 Marc moved to Munich and
joined the Automotive Global
Sales & Marketing organization.
He is now in charge of global
automotive strategy.
Marc holds several patents in
the field of automotive sensors
and has published numerous
articles on automotive
electronics.
Marc holds an engineering degree
in mechanics and electronics
from the French “Ecole Nationale
Superieure d’Arts et Metiers” in
Paris. He resides in Munich,
Germany. |
Panos Papadimitratos, SeVeCom
PANAGIOTIS (PANOS)
PAPADIMITRATOS (panos.papadimitratos@epfl.ch)
received his Ph.D. degree from
Cornell University in 2005.
After a postdoctoral fellow
position at Virginia Tech, he is
currently a senior researcher at
the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne (EPFL). His research
is concerned with security,
networking protocols, and
wireless and mobile systems. He
has authored more than 60
technical publications on these
topics, delivered a tutorial at
ACM Mobicom '07, and has served
on the program committees of
numerous venues, including ACM
MobiHoc, WiSec, ASIACCS, and
VANET, and IEEE Infocom. His
webpage is http://people.epfl.ch/panos.papadimitratos. |
Ziva Patir,
Better Place, Global Standards, Regulations and Compliance
Ziva Patir leads international
standardization efforts for
Better Place, defining technical
standards and ensuring
compliance with requirements set
by international standards
organizations and regulatory
bodies. In this role, she
oversees collaboration with
Better Place partners on
existing and future standards to
promote the industry-wide
consensus necessary for mass
deployment of electric vehicles
and ensure the public safety and
environment interests are well
served.
Prior to joining Better Place,
Patir held the position of
director general of the Standard
Institution of Israel (SII) for
over a decade. SII, which
employs close to 1,000 staff,
including hundreds of engineers
and scientists, manages the
biggest civil laboratories in
the country and oversees
certification activities in all
areas of Israeli life. Patir
also served as Vice President
Technical of the International
Organization for Standardization
(ISO), chairing the Technical
Management Board, 2004- 2008.
She was the first woman to be
elected as an officer position
in ISO. Patir still leads the
Strategic Alliance and
Regulatory group (CASCO STAR) to
develop strategy for cooperation
between the various stakeholders
involved in Conformity
Assessment.
She served as the president of
the Israel Quality Society and
the president of the
International Women Forum [IWF]
in Israel. She also serves as
Chair of the Board of the Road
Safety Authority (RSA) in
Israel. |
Scott Pennock, QNX
Software Systems (Wavemakers)
Inc.
Scott Pennock worked at
AT&T/Lucent Bell Labs for 10
years, assessing and improving
the speech communications
performance of terminals and
networks. He then worked at
OnStar on speech technologies
for 5 years. More recently, he
worked at Apple in the iPhone
group. He joined QNX Software
Systems in 2008. Scott Pennock
received his B.S. from Michigan
State University and his M.S. in
applied psychology from the
Stevens Institute of Technology. |
Matthias Rausch,
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Mathias Rausch received the
Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical
Engineering from the University
of Magdeburg in 1991, and the
Dr.-Ing. degree from the same
University in 1996. After an 18
month scholarship at the
Carnegie Mellon University in
Pittsburgh, USA, he joined the
Systems Engineering team in the
Motorola Semiconductor Products
Sector in Munich, Germany, in
1998. Since 2000 he is involved
in the FlexRay development. He
is the editor of the protocol
specification and is also
responsible for a number of
FlexRay topics inside Free¬scale. |
Tadao Saito, CTO, Toyota InfoTechnology Center
Dr. Tadao Saito received the Ph. D degree in electronics from the University of Tokyo in 1968. Since then he was a lecture, an associate professor and a professor of the University of Tokyo, where he is now a Professor Emeritus. Since June 2001, he is a professor of Chuo University and the Chief Scientist and CTO of Toyota InfoTechnology Center, where he studies future ubiquitous information services around automobile.
He worked in variety of subjects related to digital communication and computer networks. His research includes variety of communication networks and its social applications such as ITS. He is also the chairman of Ubiquitous Networking Forum of Japan working for future vision of information society. He is also the chairman of Next Generation IP Network Promotion Forum of Japan. He wrote two books on electronic circuitry, four books on computer and two books on digital communication and multimedia.
From 1998 to 2002 he was the chairman of Telecommunication Business Committee of the Telecommunication Council of Japanese government and contributed to regulatory policy of telecommunication business for broadband network deployment in Japan. He is also the Japanese representative of International Federation of Information Processing General Assembly and Technical Committee 6 (Communication System). He is a fellow of IEEE and IEICEJ.
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Herbert Scheitler,
Wavecom
Herbert Scheitler joined Wavecom
as Vice President, Automotive
Business in August 2008. Prior
to joining Wavecom, he had
worked for Siemens for 23 years,
most recently responsible for
Industrial Business Development
(Automotive) at Siemens’
Wireless Modules Division.
Before that, he was worldwide
Sales Director for the consumer
business with particular focus
on the APAC and North American
regions. Starting 1985 at
Siemens Comp./Semiconductors he
worked in several positions in
Product Management, Sales and
Account Management before
joining Siemens Communications
and Siemens One where he was
from 2005-07 to lead Telematics/FleetManagement
activities. He holds a degree in
Electrical Engineering. Mr.
Scheitler is based in Wavecom’s
Munich office. |
Jack Sheldon on behalf of
Aharon Amit, IEC General
Secretary
Jack Sheldon has worked at the
IEC since 1983 and initially
worked in standards development
with responsibility, amongst
others, for the creation of IEC/TC
100 (Multimedia systems and
equipment). He was influential
in the transformation of the IEC
from a paper-based to a
paperless organization was
instrumental in setting-up TISS,
the IEC’s helpline to its
community.
He currently occupies the
position of Standardization
Strategy Manager, which includes
the secretariat of the SMB
(Standardization Management
Board), the secretariat of the
MSB (Market Strategy Board) and
Strategic Development in the IEC.
Prior to joining the IEC he
worked as an electronics
engineer in a number of IT and
telecommunications companies in
the United Kingdom, France and
Germany.
Born in 1954, Jack Sheldon has
an MA in Natural Sciences from
Cambridge University and an MBA
from the Open University. |
T. Russell Shields, Chairman, Ygomi
Mr. Shields has a 40-year track
record of creating and
developing businesses that
define new industries, including
software engineering, business
services, wireless
communications, and intelligent
transportation systems (ITS). In
2008, he received the
Distinguished Alumni Award for
Entrepreneurship from the
University of Chicago’s Booth
School of Business. Mr. Shields
is a Board Member of the ITS
World Congress, a former Officer
and founding Board Member of the
Intelligent Transportation
Society of America (ITS
America), former chair of the
Communications Committee of the
Transportation Research Board
(National Research Council), and
Convener of the Working Group
developing international
standards for wireless
communications for ITS
(ISO/TC204/WG16). He received
the 1998 SAE Delco Electronics
Intelligent Transportation
Systems Award for distinguished
service to the ITS industry, was
named an SAE Fellow in 2007, and
was inducted into the inaugural
class of ITS America’s ITS Hall
of Fame in 2008. Mr. Shields
holds a BA in mathematics from
Wichita State University and two
degrees (an MA in history and an
MBA) from the University of
Chicago. |
Sabine Sories, Ericsson
GmbH
Sabine Sories received her
diploma degree in Electrical
Engineering from the Aachen
University of Applied Sciences,
Germany in 2006. After that, she
joined the Ericsson GmbH as
Research Engineer. She now works
for the German research project
"Cooperative Cars", where she
leads the performance analysis
in the work package
"Communications Simulator. |
Christopher
Temple,
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Christopher Temple holds a
Dipl.-Ing. and a PhD degree from
Vienna University of Technology.
He joined Motorola in 2000 as a
Systems Engineer and leads today
an Automotive System Solutions
team at Freescale Semiconductor
in Munich, Germany. With a focus
on emerging systems technology,
the team currently addresses
areas such as in-vehicle
communication and dependable
processing. |
Bernhard H. Walke, Aachen
University
Bernhard H. Walke is
heading the Department of
Communication Networks at RWTH
Aachen University, Germany,
focusing on IMT-Advanced systems
air-interface design,
performance evaluation and
system level simulation tools
development. His work is
published in about 180
peer-reviewed conference/journal
papers and five textbooks some
of which gained more than 100
scholar.google citations. Prior
to joining academia, he worked
for 18 years in industry at EADS
AG. He holds a Dr. in
Information Engineering from
University of Stuttgart,
Germany. |
Bruno Verplancken,
Neopark
Web entrepreneur with extensive
experience of 10 years.
Founded in 2005, Neopark is the
French leader in the search for
parking via his website
Oumegarer.com.
Neopark enjoys a central
location and proximity to users
and professionals market. And an
independent intermediary who
gives it a unique perspective on
the industry and allows it to be
closer to developments market.
Current
• General Manager at NEOPARK
Past
• General Manager at ANDYMION
• Middle-Office Manager at
CA-INDOSUEZ
Education
• CNAM - PARIS
• IAE - LYON
• IMADE - AIX EN PROVENCE |
Yunpeng Zang, Aachen
University
Yunpeng Zang received his
B.Engr. and M.Sc. from Beijing
University of Posts and
Telecommunications, China, in
1999 and 2002, respectively.
Since 2003, he works as a
research assistant towards his
PhD degree in Department of
Communication Networks (ComNets),
RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
His current research interests
are in wireless vehicular
communications, wireless
personal area networks and
wireless mesh networks. He has
been involved in several
research projects on wireless
and vehicular communications
such as EU funded projects
PReVENT and MYCAREVENT, as well
as WIGWAM and Cooperative Cars (CoCar)
projects funded by German
Federal Ministry of Education
and Research (BMBF). He is a
student member of IEEE since
2000 and a student member of ACM
since 2008. His email address is
zyp@comnets.rwth-aachen.de. |
Cyril Zeller, Business
Development Director, Mobile
Devices
“Cyril Zeller: A strong and
dynamic character with excellent
communication skills aiming to
make things happen in a fast
growing organisation
Cyril Zeller is the Business
Development Director of Mobile
Devices Ingénierie, a leading
European company in Telematics
technology.
Founded in 2002, Mobile Devices
is now backed up by Innovacom
V.C. and provides its partners
with a unique ecosystem which
includes a Telematics
multi-application embedded
platform with its open SDK, and
a very powerful bidirectional
communication server that allows
any application uploaded on the
application store to run on
mobile devices in the most
efficient way.
Cyril Zeller, 41 years old,
Master of Science in Marketing,
started its career in the
Bolloré group. After he
undertook different missions in
auditing and business management
he moved to the sector of
bartering in companies such as
T.E.C. or Barterfina where he
was Managing Director. He joint
more recently Bestmarques.com an
on-line sales J.V. with Marie-Caire
and Roularta group as Director
of sales.”
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ITU: International Telecommunication Union (www.itu.int)
ISO: International Organization for Standardization (www.iso.org)
IEC: International Electrotechnical Commission (www.iec.ch)
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