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“Quantitative safety assessment: experiments and field measurements” Short Bio: Henrique Madeira is professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. His main research interest is experimental evaluation of dependable computing systems, fault injection, error detection mechanisms, and transactional systems dependability, subjects on which he has authored or co-authored more than 150 papers in refereed conferences and journals. He has coordinated or participated in tens of projects funded by the Portuguese government and by the European Union. Henrique Madeira was the Vice-Chair of the IFID Working Group 10.4 Special Interest Group (SIG) in Dependability Benchmarking from the establishment of the SIG in the summer of 1999 until 2002. He has organized several Workshops and scientific events, including serving as Program Co-Chair of the major conferences of his research area, such as the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks. Henrique Madeira was co-developer of RIFLE, a pin-level fault injection tool, and Xception a software implemented fault injection (SWIFI) tool. These tools have been used in several European universities and by the Brazilian National Institute of Space Research (INPE), NASA, ESA, among others. Henrique Madeira was a co-founder of the company Critical Software SA. |
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Philippe Quéré |
“Key Challenges for the Automotive Industry and Renault” Short Bio: Philippe Quéré is the manager of an advanced engineering team on real-time embedded software in Renault. He is involved, among other subjects, in the advanced studies related to safety for real-time embedded software. He is ISO expert in WG16 group for the development of the ISO 26262 international standard. He takes part in the discussions on cross domain comparison of safety standards in a working group of Embedded France. He is a computer science engineer with experience in embedded software. He joined Renault in 2005 as an “advanced engineering” engineer to work on software development subjects. He took the lead of the team in 2010. Before joining Renault Philippe has been involved in the development of embedded software for the consumer electronics and the automotive industry, working for car suppliers and manufacturers via subcontracting. |
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Philip Koopman |
“Software Quality, Dependability and Safety in Embedded Systems” The video of Philip Koopman giving the Toyota UA case study talk is on line: Short Bio: Dr. Philip Koopman is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has worked in the broad areas of wearable computers, software robustness, embedded networking, dependable embedded computer systems, and autonomous vehicle safety. Previously, he was a submarine officer in the US Navy, an embedded CPU architect for Harris Semiconductor, and an embedded system researcher at United Technologies. His current research interests focus on safety critical software and Embedded/Cyber-Physical System education. He is a senior member of IEEE, senior member of the ACM, and a member of IFIP WG 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance. Recently he has served as a testifying expert witness for automotive unintended acceleration cases. He has affiliations with the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department (ECE), Institute for Software Research (ISR), and National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC). |
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Werner Steinhoegl |
“Cyber-Physical Systems in Horizon 2020 – Trends in EU research and innovation activities”
The goal is to enable every business in Europe, and notable SMEs, to get access to latest CPS technologies, knowledge and skills in order to innovate and generate higher value in its products, processes and services and to compete at a world scale.
Short Bio: Werner Steinhögl is Scientific Programme Officer at the European Commission in Brussels. He develops strategies for the ICT research workprogramme in the Cyber-Physical Systems domain and manages collaborative research projects in the directorate general for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CONNECT). Before he had been working for 6 years in the Future and Emerging Technologies programme (FET) and managing research projects in quantum information processing and atomic scale ICT devices. From 1999 to 2005 he was a research engineer and staff scientist at Siemens and Infineon Corporate Research in Munich and did R&D in advanced semiconductor technologies, materials and devices. His education is in theoretical and experimental physics where he holds a PhD acquired at the Max-Planck Institute for fluid dynamics in Göttingen, Germany. His thesis dealt with problems of surface and solid state physics. He is author and coauthor of about 45 scientific papers and filed more than 5 patents. |