AESIN Members Plenary
Our member-only plenary is one of the key events for members and a fantastic forum to engage with and influence AESIN activities. This is the first of two plenaries to be organised for 2023 and the first in-person plenary since the pandemic.
The Plenary will be a mix of presentations and workshop style break-out sessions. It is an opportunity to learn about the work of the Special Interest Groups and AESIN activities across the industry. The event is a platform for members to contribute to the shaping of AESIN activities, and to actively contribute to the areas of work pertinent for your industries.
9:00-9:30 Registration with teas/coffees
9:30-10:00 Welcome address from Dr Stephen Lambert, McLaren Applied and AESIN Industry Chair followed by Gunny Dhadyalla, AESIN Director, with a 2022 review and 2023 overview
10:00-11:00 AESIN Special Interest Groups (SIGs) with AESIN SIG Chairs
11:00-12:30 Interactive roundtables with SIG chairs
12:30-13:30 Lunch & Networking
13:30-14:45 Future trends keynote speech and interactive AESIN member discussion, with Charlie Robson – McLaren Applied Junior Product Manager, Electrification
15:00 Event close
Speakers
Dr Stephen Lambert
AESIN Chairman
Dr Stephen Lambert received his Doctorate from the University of Warwick by looking at the applicability of hybrid & electric drivetrains in motorsport. Following this he worked at Lotus Engineering, developing hybrid & electric demonstrator vehicles for a number of OEMs.
Charlie Robson
Junior Product Manager, Electrification, McLaren Applied
Future trends keynote speech and interactive AESIN member discussion.
Andrew Patterson
Chair of Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) group
Andrew was previously a Business Development Director for Mentor Graphics’ embedded software division, specializing in automotive solutions (Mentor Automotive). Prior to Mentor, Andrew spent over 25 years in the Design Automation market and IT/Engineering markets, working in the areas of vehicle networks, simulation model development, and embedded software build, validation and testing. Recently he has been focused on automotive connectivity challenges involving ADAS, Infotainment, AUTOSAR, embedded security, and the use of complex SoCs in Linux-based in-vehicle solutions. Andrew holds a master’s degree in Engineering and Electrical Sciences from Cambridge University, UK.
Siraj Shaikh
Chair of Research and Innovation group
Chair is Siraj Shaikh, a Professor in Systems Security at Swansea University. His research interests lie at the intersection of cybersecurity, systems engineering, and automotive systems. He has previously been a Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellow at HORIBA MIRA (2015-16) addressing automotive cybersecurity testing.
Peter Lockhart
Chair of Systems Engineering for Cyber Physical Systems group
This group is chaired by Peter Lockhart, Systems Engineering expert. After leaving Surrey University in 1984, Peter joined Plessey Research working on optical, acoustic and magnetic sensor research. My career has covered a broad range of sensor, communication and internet research and filed over 40 patent applications. His career has spanned both the civil and defence markets, developing bespoke sensors to full turn key systems for broadcast, transportation, defence and national security applications.
After managing Roke’s senior consultancy team for 6 years he was appointed Future Technology manager responsible for business technology strategy. He was responsible for driving Plessey’s innovation programme, covering all aspects of knowledge, technology and innovation management. He supplied consultancy on future technologies and was featured in the Financial Times as the Siemens future technologist.
Dr Valentina Donzella
Chair of Perception Sensors for CAM group
This group is chaired by Dr Valentina Donzella, Associate Professor in the Intelligent Vehicles group at WMG, University of Warwick, who is the Director of WMG’s MSc in Smart Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, managing a suite of modules in automotive sensors, sensor fusion, automotive embedded system V&V and robustness, machine intelligence, human technology interaction and communications. Valentina is leading the sensor workgroup in the AESIN ADAS & HAV workgroup.
Dr Donzella’s current research interests are: intelligent vehicle sensors, LiDARs, optical sensing, integrated optics, automotive electronics and test techniques. She currently supervises a number of doctoral, masters and undergraduate project students.
Valentina completed her Ph.D. (with honours) in Innovative Technologies for Communication and Information Engineering form SSSUP (Pisa, Italy). Before joining WMG, she was a postdoctoral researcher and then MITACS fellow at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC), working on Silicon Photonics integrated optical sensors.
Peter Davies
Chair of the Security group
Peter Davies is a Technical Director of Thales in the UK. He is their leading expert on Cryptography in the UK responsible for providing cryptography and information security direction and expertise on a variety of products and projects. Previous work includes the development and certification of flexible and interoperable commercial security solutions that are also widely used by governments; these solutions are available worldwide and support the security of both communications and infomatics in an international, multi grade environment. His specialist knowledge is at the core of the cyber defence and forensics activities that he uses to combat existential treats against business. He can, and has, interacted on security and products at any level from Prime Minister, through Board to deep technical including Agencies, Certification Labs and partners developing and sustaining business opportunities worldwide. He has generated patents in the area of digital DNA and my research covers aspects of technical security as well as aspects of super-identities and their role in combatting human based cyber-attacks. He has lead EU security research contracts and has acted as an expert on others. As well as contributing to standards He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and deliver lectures to postgraduate information and cyber security programmes in the UK and worldwide.
Jim Nicholas
Chair of UI / UX group
Jim Nicholas is the CEO of Uniphy Limited, a company dedicated to Product Designer creative freedom to realise freeform 3D products, with touch sensing on their surface, proximity sensing about the surface, the integration of displays & intuitive HMI controllers such as dials, sliders buttons & switches, whilst doing so with a breakthrough in capital investment.
Jim is also Chairman of Codeplay a world-renowned software company “Enabling AI to be Open, Safe & Accessible to all” and a board member of Silexica a disruptive startup “Mastering software/hardware complexity at the intelligent edge”. He has held a variety of executive positions. He was the CEO of MIPS Technologies, leading the transition out of Imagination Technologies into the standalone entity acquired by Tallwood Venture Capital.
Before that he was promoted to Imagination Technologies’ Executive Vice President & MIPS Business Unit General Manager. Whilst responsible for MIPS, Jim defined & executed the strategy of ensuring that MIPS was considered a leading architecture addressing autonomous driving & AI, developing a strong relationship with Mobileye.
Other appointments have included being GM of STMicroelectronics’ Microcontroller Division {creating the 8-bit STM8 & the world’s most commercially successful & ubiquitous ARM based, 32-bit microcontroller family, the STM32}, VP of Marketing for ARM’s Processor Division, VP & GM of Processors Subsystems & Productivity group for ST-Ericsson [& STMicroelectronics] and VP of Marketing for Toumaz Ltd {Healthcare & Consumer Electronics {Frontier Smart Technologies}. Jim has a track record for successfully transforming distressed businesses & ineffective R&D organizations into productive & profitable entities. He is founder/owner of AutonomyN LLC a Strategic & Operations Services Consultancy & a board member of Silexica.