 Srinivasagan Ayyappan
Senior Expert, Infotainment Systems, Aston Martin Lagonda, United Kingdom
Srinivasagan Ayyappan born in India, received his Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Sri Ram Engineering College, University of Madras, Master’s in Applies Electronics Engineering from Sathyabama University and Master’s in Business Administration with International Business specialization from Loyola College, Chennai, India. He has 19+years experience in Avionics and Automotive product development. He worked in Avionics cockpit displaying architecture in Honeywell, Vehicle Multimedia Infotainment architecture in Ford, Visteon, India and UK. He led the Architecture team for the Laser Automotive Head Up Display (HUD) in Tata Elxsi, India & Jaguar Land Rover, UK and introduced new technologies in EE architecture. As Chief Engineer in Great Wall Motors (GWM), China he worked with responsibility for EE architecture, Vehicle Multimedia Infotainment Systems, Domain controller, Cybersecurity & Functional Safety, Driver monitoring Systems and Head-Up Displays. He worked in Ford, UK in Cyber security compliance team. Since June 2021 he is working as Senior Expert - Infotainment in Aston Martin Lagonda, UK responsible for Infotainment System architecture, Instrument cluster systems, Cyber security and Functional safety. He is Senior Member of IEEE associated for past 22 years. He was editor delivering FG-VM-WG2 technical report. |
 Zehui Cheng
Changan Automobile
Zehui Cheng holds a master‘s degree in mechanical engineering (in the direction of human factors engineering) from Technical University of Munich. After study, he joined Changan Automobile Co., Ltd. He is currently responsible for vehicular human factor research, especially for human-machine-interaction.
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 Francois Fischer
Chair
ITU-T FG-VM/WG3 | Huawei
He holds an Engineer diploma (master) in electrical engineering and information technologies and is expert leader for Standardisation and Industry in the fields of Connected Vehicle, Smart Cockpit Maps and infotainment at Huawei Technologies. After working at Siemens in Germany, as software developer, he founded FSCOM to provide consultancy in different vertical domains relating to Intelligent connected devices. He strongly contributes to the standardisation at ETSI as member through many ETSI Specialist Task Forces. Before joining Huawei he worked at ERTICO leading Connected and Automated Mobility Research and Innovation, where he coordinated EU-funded actions dealing with Cooperative and Connected Automated Mobility, eCall, GNSS and 5G, Cloud computing and IoT, e.g. the AUTOPILOT innovation action about IoT for Autonomous Vehicle and the 5G-MOBIX Innovation Action about 5G for CCAM. He is the chairman of the AIOTI (Alliance for Internet of Thing Innovation) working Group on Smart Mobility and Member of the AIOTI Steering Board. He is delegate in ISO TC22, TC204 and TC211 and member of the Open AR Cloud. |
 Bilel Jamoussi
Chief of Study Groups, TSB, ITU
Tunisian born, Dr. Bilel Jamoussi is Chief of the Study Groups Department of ITU Standardization Bureau in Geneva Switzerland. Since 2010, he has been leading the bureau’s standards making activities into a new era characterized by rapid convergence and the need for increased collaboration with vertical sectors and partnership between developed and developing countries. Prior to 2010, Jamoussi worked for a Telecommunication equipment and solutions provider for 15 years in Canada and then in the United States where he held several leadership positions and was granted 22 US patents in diverse areas including packet, optical, wireless, and quality of service. He holds a BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is fluent in Arabic, French, and English and speaks some Spanish and German.
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 Andrew Richards
Director, Business Development, EMEA, SoundHound
Andrew Richards is Director of Business Development, EMEA, at SoundHound, based in France. He’s been working in the voice technology space for over 20 years and has a background in linguistics and music.
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 Zhan Shi
iFlytek
Zhan Shi holds a master’s degree from Hefei University of Technology. He has over 18 years of experience in the field of scientific and technological innovation. Currently working in the Quality Management Department of iFlytek, mainly engaged in the quality and project management of smart vehicles.
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 Feifei Tian
iFlytek
Feifei Tian holds a master’s degree in microelectronics from Beijing University of Technology. He has over 10 years of experience in the field of scientific and technological innovation. He currently serves in Legal & Intellectual Property Department of iFlytek, focuses his work mainly on standardization of AI, especially of smart vehicles.
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