Keynote Talks
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Alberto BroggiAlberto Broggi is General Manager at VisLab srl (spinoff of the University of Parma acquired by Silicon-Valley company Ambarella Inc. on June 2015) and professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Parma in Italy. Prof. Broggi graduated in Electronic Engineering and got his Ph.D. in Information Technology at the University of Parma, Italy, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. Prof. Broggi got a position as Researcher at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, University of Parma in 1994; shortly after he got his PhD in Information Technology. In 1998 he was with the University of Pavia as Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence. From 2001 he has been Associate Professor and then Full Professor at the University of Parma, where he has been the founder and leader of the artificial vision research group, VisLab. On April 3, 2015, he received a PhD Honoris Causa from INSA, Rouen, France, for his lifetime achievement in computer vision with applications to vehicles. He acted as Program Chair of the main conference in the field of intelligent vehicles (the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2000 in Detroit, MI) and as General Chair of the same conference in 2004; from 2004 to 2008 he served the most important scientific Journal in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems, the IEEE Trans on ITS, as Editor-in-Chief; He served the IEEE ITS Society as President for the term 2010-2011, and in 2012 he held the position of Past-President. Professor Broggi’s pioneering activities in the field of vehicular robotics are recognized worldwide as milestones that have shaped the early stages of perception for intelligent vehicles and the leading efforts in autonomous driving. He founded the VisLab startup and organized unique autonomous driving challenges, serving as reference to many other companies and car makers, that followed with similar activities. In 2017 he got the IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies, “for leadership in vehicular environmental perception, and for setting worldwide milestones in safe and reliable intelligent vehicles.
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Cristina Olaverri-MonrealDr. Cristina Olaverri Monreal graduated with a Master’s degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science and Phonetics from the Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich 2002 and received her PhD 2006 in cooperation with BMW. She is the head of the Competence Team “Intelligent Technologies in Smart Cities” at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, Austria. Her research aims to minimize the barrier between users and systems in complex, dynamic scenarios that are critical to decision making processes, such as driving a vehicle and innovative forms of mobile and ubiquitous interaction approaches to human mobility. Her research interests lie in automated driving, multi-functional systems for in-vehicle information; overall efficiency of user and system utilization; driver behavior; simulation tools and research concerning Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Dr. Olaverri is chair of the Technical Activities Committee on Human Factors in ITS. She is Vice-president of Educational Activities in the IEEE ITS Council Executive Committee and a member of the IEEE ITS Board of Governors (BoG). In addition, she serves as an associate editor and editorial board member of several journals in the field, including the IEEE ITS Transactions and the IEEE ITS Magazine. She was recently recognized for her dedicated contribution to continuing education in the field of ITS with the 2017 IEEE Educational Activities Board Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education.
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Ghanim PutrusGhanim Putrus is Professor of Electrical Power Engineering and leads the Power and Wind Energy Research group within the Faculty of Engineering and Environment at Northumbria University, UK. He has over 25 years of research experience with over 170 publications, including one patent, and has given several invited talks at national and international events. He has also been involved in several research projects and has often provided consultancy for industry. He is involved in the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) professional activities and served on the executive committee of their Power Trading and Control Professional Network (2001-2009) and chairman of the IET Northumbria branch for 2004/2005 session. He is Associate Editor of the Elsevier Renewable Energy journal. He organised UPEC2006 conference at Northumbria and is member of the steering committees for several international conferences. His main research interests are the application of power electronics in power systems, power quality, integration of renewable energy resources and electric vehicles into power distribution networks (smart grids).
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