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Dr. Carl D. Marci is Chief Neuroscientist of Nielsen Consumer Neuroscience.  He is also on faculty at Harvard Medical School and is the former Director of Social Neuroscience at the Massachusetts General Hospital and past Visiting Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Program in Media Arts & Sciences.  Dr. Marci received his M.A. inRead more

Engineer II, Mitsubishi Motors, May 2013 – Today Testing Technician, Horiba, August 2011 – April 2013 NVH Engineering Intern, Tenneco, August 2010 – August 2011 ( Prototype Technician, A123 Systems, July 2010 – August 2010 Performance Testing Intern, Mitsubishi Motors, August 2008 – October 2008 Laboratory Technician, Energy Conversion Devices, October 2005 – April 2007Read more

Systems Specialist, Continental Automotive Systems, May 2005 – Today Working in the Systems and Technology group. Managing several projects to implement active safety systems on various vehicle platforms. The systems use a combination of technologies including environmental sensors and driver actions as inputs used to control the vehicle and adapt to the road and trafficRead more

Brian Lathrop is the Senior Principal Scientist for the Technology and Trend Scouting team at Volkswagen. In 2003 Brian received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2004 Brian joined VW and was responsible for human factors and usability testing activities for infotainment and driver assistance systems. In 2008Read more

Project Manager Advanced Technologies, Continental Automotive GmbH, December 2007 – Today Subproject Leader in Product Development and Project Leader in Advaced Development, Siemens VDO Automotive AG, June 2001 – November 2007 System Architect, Mannesmann VDO AG, April 1999 – May 2001 Scientist and Research Group Leader, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, May 1994 – March 1999 AssistantRead more

User Experience Researcher Jaguar Land Rover May 2014 – Present User Experience Researcher University of Mexico (UNAM) May 2010 – October 2013 User Experience Researcher at Jaguar Landrover Lecturer University of Sussex July 2003 – September 2010  Read more

Ravi Akella, a Seasoned Technology and Product Executive spearheading the Automotive and embedded Practice for PTG Ramp Group and the Automotive Centre of the Future . Scaling up and mentoring teams to deliver technology and software solutions in 2D, 3D Design , Unreal , HMI and Virtual Cockpit Electronics and Software is his Forte. AlsoRead more

Joseph Thoreson is the User Experience Architect for the Cab Systems and Environment division at Caterpillar Inc. In his role he defines and maintains standards, methods, and processes for User Experience design in the cab space including specialization in graphical user interfaces for on-board information displays. Joseph is also the lead for UX/UI on theRead more

David Silver leads the Self-Driving Car Team at Udacity, which is launching a nine-month program to train engineers to work in the autonomous vehicle industry. Prior to Udacity, David was a Research Engineer at Ford Motor Company. Before Ford, David worked in engineering and product roles at Candidate Metrics, mSpot, and AOL. He has anRead more

Graduated from Norman North High School, Norman, OK in 2001. Entered Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in August 2001. Began the cooperative education (co-op) program at Johnson Space Center in August 2002. Completed five co-op tours prior to receiving Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 2006. MS in Human Factors EngineeringRead more