Davide Casini graduated in mechanical engineering at the Politecnico of Turin in 1998. He joined Italdesign-Giugiaro in 1999 where he worked as CAE engineer for 5 years. He covered then the role of BIW leader for two years before moving in 2006 to China to manage the setup activities of Giugiaro Shanghai office.

Back in Italy in 2007, he joined the project leading department working as technical project leader for European and Asian customers and from 2010 to 2014 as technical coordination responsible for Audi projects developed at Italdesign-Giugiaro. Since 2015, he is responsible for vehicle safety and functional development, coordinating the teams of active and passive safety, numerical simulation, aerodynamics, thermal management, and air conditioning.

Bodo Seifert received his Master of Sciences in electrical engineering from the University GH Siegen in 1994. He has been working in the automotive industry since 1999 for companies like GM, Audi, and FCA supporting electronic control unit development and testing processes. At Audi he was responsible for running large global test fleets to collect vehicle performance data. His team developed the software and infrastructure for the data collection and tested over the air software updates several years ago. At Magna Electronics in Auburn Hills, MI, he is leading the Advanced Engineering department and is responsible for developing functions and technologies that will emerge in the automotive field in several years.

Avinash Penumaka graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) New Delhi in the area of mechanical engineering in 2007. He received his Marie Curie Fellowship from European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7) at the University of Florence (Italy) in 2008. He worked in various EU projects like PISa, MYMOSA, 2BESAFE, etc. on topics related to accident research, data analysis, and integrated safety of motorcycles. He received a doctorate degree from the University of Florence (Italy) in 2011. During his post-doc period (2012-13), he worked on motorcycle naturalistic behavioural studies and investigated near miss accidents.

In 2014, he joined MBRDI as a functional specialist for accident research activities in MBRDI. Since 2017, he is leading accident research activities in MBRDI. He has over 10 years of experience in the field of accident research, data analysis, and integrated safety.

Catalin Meirosu holds a bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Transport, Automotive Engineering Department at University Politehnica of Bucharest, which he obtained in 2013. He wrote a thesis on the effects of turbo-charging a small displacement gasoline engine and the influence of using ethanol for gasoline engines. He obtained his master’s degree from the Faculty of Transport, Automotive Engineering Department at University Politehnica of Bucharest in 2016 and wrote his master’s thesis on ADAS – tomorrow’s technology in today’s vehicles. Currently, he is HMI, ADAS, multimedia, and connected services local technical leader for Renault Technologie Roumanie. He has vast experience in-cockpit HMI, instrument cluster information, radio, navigation, and IoT. Catalin also has experience on ADAS systems including parking sensors, rearview camera, DVR cameras, and Blind Spot warning systems.

Maricel Ventura is the SSF PT E&E global functional safety manager (since March 2017) for Delphi Technologies located at Bascharage Luxembourg. She earned her B.S. in electronics and communication engineering at Mapua Institute of Technology (Philippines). She joined Delphi in October 2007, as senior software quality engineer for powertrain gas/diesel and electrification products, she was appointed European power electronics functional safety manager in July 2012. She is currently responsible for managing a team of functional safety managers assigned to system-software powertrain electronics and electrification projects and ensuring that projects are implementing Delphi’s Generic Functional Safety Concept (SooC) and/or customer specific allocated functional safety requirements with respect to ISO2626. Prior to her current role, she had led several multi-regional functional safety development projects classified ASIL A to C (System, Hardware, Software) mainly Power Electronics ECUs (Charger, Inverter and DCDC Converter) for BMW, Daimler, and Volvo projects.

Ariane Favreul is an automobile engineer from ESTACA University (Ecole Supérieure des Techniques Aéronautiques et de Construction Automobile) in France and has a master’s degree focused on new energies and environment. In the past year, she has been working as a test engineer in France at UTAC CERAM, a global leader providing homologation and testing services for vehicles and equipment.

She currently performs tests for EuroNCAP AEB protocols (car, pedestrian, and bicycle), and works also on the MUSE (Motorcycle Users Safety Enhancement) project, a private initiative for the development of testing tools and standards for the ADAS systems designed to address motorbike accidents.

Mr. De Rosa received the MSc degree (with honours) in electronic engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, in 2005, and an M.Tech. in design and development of embedded electronic systems from the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, in 2008. He joined Alstom Ferroviaria, Bologna, Italy as project safety assurance manager, in 2006. In 2013, he joined CNH Industrial, Modena, Italy and in 2015 he joined RINA Services, Naples, Italy as lead independent safety assessor. He is currently the CNHi worldwide functional safety manager for Agriculture and Earth-moving business line. He was a member of the ISO technical committees for the definition of the safety standards related to the Tractors and machinery for agriculture and forestry and Earth-moving machinery.

Mr. Negri received the MSc degree summa cum laude in computer science from Salerno University, a postgraduate master’s in industrial research, mechatronics, and automation from CNR-ITIA (Italian National Research Council, Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation, 2005), and a postgraduate master in functional safety from CNH Industrial. He’s currently R&D project safety manager for several CNH Industrial programs (autonomous vehicles, worldwide construction equipment etc.) In 2004 he joined Italian National Research Council (CNR) as a researcher in the field of mechatronics. Since 2007 he has been a technical leader and scientific responsible for several R&D programs in the field of advanced mechatronics, robotics and industrial automation. In 2012 he joined CNH Industrial, in the R&D electronic-electrohydraulic and system architecture department as a senior system engineer, where he was responsible for the development of new generation construction equipment electronic control system. In 2017, he entered as an independent scientific expert the European Commission register of Expert Peer Reviewer – European Research Council (ERC). Since 2017, he is a member of Joint ISO/TC 127/SC 2 - ISO/TC 82 WG22: Autonomous machine safety. Since 2018, he is a scientific reviewer of IEEE Computer Society – IEEE Software.

His current research interests include mechatronics, functional safety, automotive control systems, sensors, system engineering, robotics, electronic control system of advanced machines, scientific dissemination, and artificial intelligence. He is author of several scientific and dissemination papers in the field of mechatronics, robotics and artificial intelligence.

Mr. Saibel graduated from the State Technical University in Tula, Russia with an M.Sc. in computer science in 1994. After several years working as a software developer in different IT organizations for banking and finance, he switched focuses towards robotics and automation. Since 2012, he has been working at Scania R&D in Södertälje, Sweden. As a senior engineer in connected and autonomous systems, he participates in many development projects for autonomous driving and platooning.

Having focused on off-board systems for autonomous fleets, he has worked as a team leader and a senior solution architect for Scania Intelligent Control Environment that is an important part of Scania Autonomous System (ATS). Sergej’s team has introduced a lot of fundamental concepts and patented ideas for Scania’s ATS off-board system. Most of them have an influence on safety and security for heavy autonomous vehicles.