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Vice President, Automotive Client Solutions, Nielsen, September 2015 – HToday Executive Director, Global Automotive, J.D. Power and Associates, October 2006 – December 2014 Vice President, Automotive, IAG Research, June 2005 – September 2006 Manager, Advanced Product Development, Lear Corporation, February 2002 – May 2005 Director, Automotive Accounts, JD Power and Associates, March 1998 – JanuaryRead more

Jürgen Schmidt is working as an expert for the topic driver camera at Daimler AG, since 2013. Within his research, he focused on eye tracking and the human behavior during conditionally automated driving. As a researcher he is interested in detecting the reaction ability of the driver in underload conditions (PhD candidate at the ChairRead more

2016 PhD – Linguistics and Video-Mediated Communication University of Haifa, Israel 2004 MA – Linguistics National University of Córdoba, Argentina 2000 BA – Linguistics National University of Córdoba, Argentina Professional Experience 2015-Present Speech Interaction Designer. General Motors. 2013-2014 Speech Consultant, Technical Transcriber. IGMI, Israel. Research Assistant, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel 2009-2010 Member of theRead more

With 20 years of experience ranging from product development to enterprise architecture, Warren provides a 360-degree perspective on technology. He takes a hands-on approach, tinkering to stay abreast of the latest innovations like rapid prototyping with 3D printers, and deriving contextual awareness from cloud based aggregation of IoT sensor data. Warren’s experience leading development teams,Read more

Design Engineer of Product Group 3 R&D (HMI) at DENSO International America, Inc. 2012~ present Focus of interest: Early-stage Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) evaluation; driver distraction/ inattention mitigation technique, automated vehicle HMI design. Designed and Conducted human factors studies with instrumented vehicles on a controlled testing track as the primary investigator. Lead collaborative research withRead more

Executive Director, Advanced Steering & Comfort, Nexteer Automotive, 2016 – Today Executive Director, Active Safety, Key Safety Systems, 2014 – 2016 Responsible for expanding business by creating and introducing Active Safety Technologies for Autonomous Vehicles for customers globally. Our electronic sensor and actuator systems enable the best possible personalized occupant protection in vehicles. Strategy implementationRead more

Thomas “TJ”  has his bachelor’s degree in Materials Science & Engineering from the University of Michigan. In his past he has had both hardware and software experience with optics related technologies.  At OPTIS he has focused on the SPEOS line of products.  First with SPEOS for CATIA and then with SPEOS for NX. During hisRead more

Dr. Joanne Harbluk is a Human Factors Specialist with the Human Factors and Crash Avoidance Division of Motor Vehicle Safety at Transport Canada where she investigates human-vehicle interaction with the goal of improving safety. Current work is focused on the human factors of driver interaction with automated vehicles.  Read more

CV Christian has worked in human factors since 1999. He has planned, designed, and conducted numerous research projects related to human systems integration, basic and applied human factors research, usability, and human performance evaluation. Christian has authored/co-authored many publications on human factors research topics including driver distraction, driver workload, age-related driving issues, and orienting attentionRead more

Alex Kirlik is Professor in the Department of Computer Science with additional appointments in the Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and the Information Trust Institute. He previously served as acting head of Illinois’s Human Factors program in theRead more