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Nolan Helmuth

Nolan Helmuth is an HMI researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology who graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design from Georgia Tech in December 2023. He focuses on analyzing user interactions to help craft beautiful ideas that have meaningful impact. With experience in various fields of design, his passion remains in product design,Read more

Taeho “Evan” Lee

Evan Lee serves as a research assistant at the Georgia Institute of Technology, working under Professor Wayne Li in the GM HMI Lab within the School of Industrial Design. He recently earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial design, with a focus on digital design and product visualization. Evan’s work involves creating virtual environments that facilitateRead more

Anders Wirkestrand

Anders Wirkestrand has over 20 years of experience in product management for semiconductor, software, and optical networking equipment companies. He joined Tobii in 2017, focusing on embedded eye-tracking platforms. Four years ago he shifted towards the automotive sector, where he now plays a pivotal role in spearheading driver monitoring solutions for Tier 1s and OEMs.Read more

Harsha Padmanabha

Harsha started his career in developing firmware for Gaming Systems, and since then has worked on designing middleware for large casinos, game servers, 2D/3D game engines for slot machines, progressive games, etc. In the past couple of years, he has led teams in developing complete media players, HW/SW design, 3D embedded Graphics for Dashboard ClustersRead more

Isak Hjortgren

At Kognic, Isak holds a dual role as Product and Engineering Manager driving the platform strategy for Kognic’s software tooling, including dataset exploration, annotation, verification and analytics. With a background in machine learning and data science, Isak merges industry his expertise in mobility with the demands of computer vision. Isak obtained a Master’s degree inRead more

Tom Dahlström

Working in the field of ADAS and Autonomous Driving since 2019; part of Kognic’s mission to enable budget-effective development of data-defined perception software since 2022.Read more

Ana Schmitz-Fuentes

Ana joined we.CONECT Global Leaders in 2021 and is currently Event Portfolio Director, Smart Mobility. The Pop in Your Job – What drives you? Why do you love your job? What I love about my job, is hearing first-hand about innovative programs and industry challenges and meeting experts face to face. When I am notRead more

Gary Streelman

Gary Streelman, Director Advanced Engineering and New Concepts for Magneti Marelli Electronics North America. BS and MS degrees in Engineering from the University of Michigan. Currently managing activity related to Infotainment systems, vehicle connectivity and new technology directions.Read more

Praveen Abbaraju

I’m always excited and motivated to work on robotic solutions that can serve humans. Over a decade of experience in developed AI & Machine learning algorithms for autonomous systems and their functionality. Currently, I’m a senior engineer/ researcher at Hitachi Astemo Americas Inc., working on advanced digital solutions for Software Defined Mobility using state-of-the artRead more

Gopala Garnepudi

Throughout my 25+ year career in Automotive industry, I have gained extensive experience and expertise in developing, delivering advanced and complex automotive systems. Worked as advanced technology work engineer, systems engineer, design release engineer, validation engineer and performance engineer. Worked for both OEMs and Tire 1 suppliers. My expertise is in developing and implementing solutionsRead more