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Dr. Julius Kümmerle

Julius is CEO and Co-Founder of SafeAD. He holds a PhD in autonomous driving from KIT, Germany. With SafeAD, Julius and his team build perception software for different applications in the field of ADAS/AD with the focus on fleet deployment.Read more

Vijitha Chekuri

Vijitha Chekuri is responsible for AWS go-to-market strategy and business development for ADAS solutions. Her focus includes cultivating strategic partnerships and engagements with autonomous ecosystem of customers and partners, industry organizations and research institutes to advance the development of autonomous technologies. Prior to joining AWS, Vijitha has accrued over 25 years of engineering, consulting, management,Read more

Karthik Krishnan

Karthik Krishnan is Head of AV/ADAS Strategy And Business Development at AWS. He has more than 15 years of professional experience with Software sales, Smart mobility, autonomous systems, ADAS, business development and strategy, Complex deal negotiations with large automotive OEMs and suppliers, creating partnership ecosystems, machine learning, cloud computing, process automation, Design of Experiments andRead more

Anurag Ganguli

Dr. Anurag Ganguli leads deep learning and computer vision researchers and software engineers to enable autonomy for commercial vehicles, focusing on perception and adjacent areas including localization, offline event mining to provide continuous improvement of machine learning models, diagnostics and calibration. Prior to joining Plus, Dr Ganguli was a research manager at the Palo AltoRead more

Advait Valluri

Advait works as Senior Application Engineer ADAS/AD at MathWorks. His focus is on providing workflow solutions to customers with MathWorks products for ADAS/AD development, mainly using RoadRunner and Automated Driving Toolbox. Prior to MathWorks, Advait worked for 8+ years in Pre-Development and Product Module Management in Chassis and ADAS/AD domains at AUDI AG. He holdsRead more

Frank Kraemer

Frank Kraemer is an IBM Systems Architect for large scale IT solutions. He has a very good understanding of Data Management solutions for Autonomous Driving (AD) and AI in the Automotive Industry. In addition, Frank Kraemer also has intensive Information Technology Consulting Skills related to Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Open Systems, Container Technologies, and modern networking.Read more

Dr. Ayhan Mehmed

Hi! I am a Ph.D. graduate in Automated Driving and Safety from Mälardalen University, Sweden. My journey in the Automotive domain began in 2014 as a Research Engineer, System Architect, and Technology Expert, and has continued to evolve. Currently, as a Lead Business Consultant at msg Plaut, I am focused on a wide range ofRead more

Hagen Boehmert

Hagen Boehmert received his diploma in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hanover in 2007 before working within the automotive industry (focus on verification and validation) in Michigan, USA. After his return in 2010 he was employed as safety engineer for series development of chassis components beforeRead more

Dr. Daniel Petrisor

Since 2017 Daniel Petrisor is working as a Senior Systems Safety Engineer at Continental Automotive Romania. His responsibilities include: Support product engineering team, providing safety process-specific knowledge. Lead informal team reviews and formal Safety Peer Reviews for safety process work products. Participate in safety strategy design discussions and help ensure that the safety requirements willRead more

Andreas Plonka

Andreas Plonka has been with Cariad since 2021, where he is currently Senior Development Quality Specialist – ADAS & AD. He has previously worked at Hella, Faurecia, Butsch and Hydrodivide, among others. Andreas Plonka studied industrial engineering at the Rhine-Main University of Applied Sciences.Read more