From ADAS to Automated Driving

Carla Bailo is the President and CEO of the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) and is a leader in engineering and vehicle program management with 35 years of experience in the automotive industry. Bailo is also the 2016-18 Vice President of Automotive for SAE International. Prior to joining CAR, she was the Assistant Vice President for Mobility Research and Business Development at The Ohio State University. She also has 25 years of experience at Nissan North America Inc., where she served as Senior Vice President of Research and Development. She has a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Kettering University.

Michael Carpenter is the Vehicle Performance Owner for Active Safety at General Motors. Carpenter is responsible for integrating consumer metrics and regulatory requirements into GM active safety systems, participating in the development of comprehensive safety strategies for GM products, and representing GM on joint research projects related to active safety technologies. Carpenter has 20-plus years’ experience in automotive safety, including 15 years in active safety system development, and is a 2009-11 Research Fellow from the University of Michigan Program for Injury Research & Education (UMPIRE). Carpenter holds five U.S. patents and three patents pending for automotive safety devices, has multiple industry publications and presentations, is a past chair of the SAE Active Safety Systems Standards Committee, and has participated on the SAE organizing committee for the From ADAS to Automated Driving symposium for the past four years.

Dennis Craggs studied at the University of Detroit and Wayne State University achieving a master’s in engineering mechanics and operations research. He is a licensed Professional Engineer, and a quality and reliability engineer. In various roles at NASA, Teledyne CAE, Ford Motor Company. and Chrysler, he worked in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mechanical and electrical design, test and development, and computer programming. At NASA, he supported engineer test and development activities. At Teledyne CAE, Craggs designed axial and centrifugal compressors for cruise missile engines. At Ford, he worked in chassis engineering component design; and in the Ford Computer Center, where he created relational database software to store engineering test data, provide an easy graphical user interface, and statistically analyze the results.

As ON Semi’s Senior Executive Manager of Automotive, Scott Craig is responsible for new business development at key focus T1 accounts in the Americas. He leads the advancement of innovation and collaboration between ON Semi and the T1. Over the course of his 29-year career, Craig has developed a passion and expertise for sales and business development. Through building of strong industry relationships, promoting innovative ideas, and global vision, he is a contributor to the automotive market at large. Craig has been an active member of SAE since 1992. He is currently part of the Industry Leadership Coalition for SAE and a member of the Technical Council for Convergence. He serves as an organizer for the SAE Tech Hub for World Congress, and currently is an organizer for the SAE Advanced Safety Symposium.
 

Ismail Hamieh is a researcher at National Research Council working on connected and autonomous vehicle projects. He is pursuing his Ph.D. at University of Windsor, and his research interests include technical work in complex autonomous sensing and perception. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Michigan focused on computer architecture and digital controls.

Fred Huntzicker is the Technical Fellow for Active Safety and Autonomous Vehicles at General Motors. Huntzicker earned a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from GMI and a master’s in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan. He developed some of the earliest multiplex systems at GM and worked on the development of SAE J1850 data bus and was the inventor of the VPW encoding used on the bus. In the late 1980s and early ’90s, he worked in various engineering roles at Saturn, managing body, chassis, and powertrain electronics. Huntzicker later managed subsystem development of body electronics and architecture development. In the 2000s, he managed the in-house validation of telematics software, including Wi-Fi and reprogramming security. Huntzicker has been awarded the Boss Kettering Award twice and holds more than 26 patents.

Joseph N. Kanianthra, Ph.D., retired from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, where he was Senior Technical Advisor and Associate Administrator for the Office of Vehicle Safety Research, directing all vehicle safety research related to crashworthiness, crash avoidance, driver-vehicle performance, tire research, driver distraction research, and intelligent technologies research programs. He was instrumental in promoting the concept of “Total Safety” through the integration of passive and active safety as well as promoting the use of interventional technologies to help drivers overcome their own deficiencies in driving. Kanianthra has received the Presidential Rank Award and is an SAE International Fellow. He has published many technical papers and is also a contributing author for two books on human injury and active safety.

Kai Konrad works as Senior Marketing Manager, Automotive Safety Systems at Infineon Technologies in Neubiberg near Munich, Germany. He studied precision and micro engineering in Munich and has and an MBA specialized in B2B marketing. Since 2006, he has worked in Infineon’s Automotive Division in the field of automotive safety. Within the Automotive Systems Group, he is in a cross-departmental function concerned with all Infineon safety products and their use in automotive safety-related systems, ADAS, and vehicle automation.

Mahendra Muli is Director, Marketing and New Business Development for dSPACE Inc. At dSPACE, Muli is responsible for driving growth initiatives through strategic marketing for North America. He has more than 18 years of industry experience in sales, marketing, project management, product development, engineering, and business development. His background includes leading global projects, creating and leading engineering, sales, and marketing organizations.     Muli received his MBA from Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. He also has a master’s in electrical engineering from Wright State University and undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from India.

Bob Neff is engaged in sales and marketing for companies involved in high technology products, projects, and people. Neff is a corporate officer at Intrass Corp. involved in V2V communications. He is a member of the SAE Vehicle Communications Committee that has written the interoperability protocol standards J2735 and J2945 for V2V and V2I communication. Neff retired from Eaton Corp., where he held various technical, marketing, and managerial positions. Most of his time was in the VORAD Division working on collision warning, adaptive cruise control, and blind spot-warning radar.

Don Parker, Principal at Exponent Inc., is a mechanical and automotive design engineer who specializes in vehicle performance analysis and the evaluation of vehicle structures in all types of crashes, including side impacts and roof strength/roof crush in rollovers, vehicle crashworthiness, and performance of components and systems. His experience in industry and consulting includes the design, performance, testing, and manufacturing of most body structural and component systems, including roofs, door systems, and energy-absorbing frame elements, as well as collision reconstruction, vehicular insurance fraud, safety of lithium-ion batteries in vehicle applications, and the use of alternate materials such as composites and structural foams in vehicle structures. Parker holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering/automotive from General Motors Institute, a master’s in mechanical engineering from Oakland University, and has been an active member of SAE for more than 40 years.

Taufiq Rahman is with the connected & autonomous vehicle team of the National Research Council Canada. His research interests include opto-mechatronics, autonomous sensing and perception, vision systems, and FPGA acceleration of edge computing. His current focus is in autonomous and intelligent transportation systems. He obtained his Ph.D. and master’s from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, for his contributions in robotics, machine vision, and mechatronics design.

Rini Sherony is a Senior Principal Engineer at Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC), part of Toyota Motor North America in Ann Arbor, MI. She has been with Toyota for the past 20 years working in active safety research, system design, evaluation/planning and data analysis. Sherony has a master’s degree in electrical engineering. Sherony is the lead for active safety, active and passive safety integration collaboration research, and data analysis. Her responsibilities include development of standardized test procedures, test targets, testing, sensor requirements, benefit estimation, etc. for active safety systems such as pre-collision, pedestrian pre-collision system, road departure warning system, etc. She is actively involved in SAE active safety committees developing pedestrian/bicyclist target standards. Sherony has authored/co-authored more than 120 papers/publications and has been granted 13 U.S. patents.

Oliver Spiess, Director, Product Strategy and Business Development Sales ZF Active and Passive Safety Technology, is part of ZF’s sales team supporting the GM account globally. He is responsible for product strategy across all of ZF’s product portfolio for GM. His focus is on bringing ZF’s innovations to GM globally and act as engineering interface across all GM global engineering centers. Spiess rejoined ZF in 2014 in the U.S. as Director for Product Strategy. Prior to that, he worked for several restraint system suppliers and GM Holden and Ford Motor Company in Germany, U.S., Spain. and Australia in various roles with focus on automotive safety, vehicle performance and CAE.