SAE International Journal of Connected and Automated Vehicles

Prof. Dr. Daniel Watzenig, Graz University of Technology and Virtual Vehicle Research Center, Austria
Daniel Watzenig received his doctoral degree in electrical engineering from Graz University of Technology, Austria, in 2006. In 2009 he received the venia docendi (associate professorship) for Electrical Measurement and Signal Processing. Since 2017 he has been a Full Professor of Automated Driving at the Institute of Automation and Control, Graz University of Technology. In addition, he is Divisional Director and Scientific Head of the Automotive Electronics and Software Department of the Virtual Vehicle Research Center in Graz. Since 2015, he has been the Vice President of the ARTEMIS Industry Association (European Research Association on Embedded Control Systems).

His research interests focus on sense & control of automated vehicles, digital signal processing, uncertainty estimation and quantification, and stochastic optimization. He is the author or co-author of more than 160 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, patents, and articles. In 2005 he served as a visiting researcher at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, working on multi-sensor data fusion. In 2011 and 2017 he served as a visiting researcher and guest lecturer at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is the Austrian representative (appointed by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport) of Electrified, Connected, and Automated Vehicles within the International Energy Agency (IEA). Since 2016 he has been the Chair of the Task Force on “Methods and Tools for Virtual Development and Validation” of the European Automotive Research Partners Association (EARPA).

Terry Fruehling, LionThorn, LLC, USA
Terry Fruehling’s 40-year engineering career includes positions with Medical, Automotive, and Communication companies. He has served in a technical leadership position for the design, development, and manufacturing of mission critical systems. This effort has resulted in the production and deployment of more than 10 million units related to safety critical systems such as ABS electronic controllers, pressure transducers, and speed/position sensors for GM, Ford, Chrysler and Harley Davidson Vehicles. His medical-based product release repertoire also includes heart-lung machines, kidney dialysis pumps, Cardioplegia machines and air bubble detectors. He has also launched secured rack modems for the banking industry. He holds nine functional safety patents that expanded the diagnostic monitoring and safety mechanism capabilities of embedded microcontrollers, such as the lock-step CPU with functional compare (including real-time BIST), data stream monitor and on chip instrumentation. He is a recognized International lecturer and consultant serving numerous companies to assess safety architectures and develop safety-related process methodologies. His work included SBIR efforts with Honeywell aerospace to develop improved prognostic/diagnostic tools for fault-tolerant data busses.

Terry has been a member of the ISO 26262 working group since 2010, US part 2 lead, and an expert for the SOTIF committee. He is also a member of the SAE J3131 On Road Automated Driving Reference Architecture Interface Committee. He holds a Biomedical Engineering Degree from Purdue University and is a member of SAE, IEEE, and ISSS.