Keynote: Prof. Mary Cummings
Autonomous system safety; Human-autonomous System Collaboration
Title: What California’s Self Driving Car Data Tells Us About Academia’s Shortcomings
As one of the U.S. Navy’s first female fighter pilots and an engineer, Mary “Missy” Cummings is accustomed to breaking barriers and solving problems.
A naval officer and military pilot from 1988-1999, Cummings was one of the U.S. Navy’s first female fighter pilots. She is now the director of Mason’s Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC) and a professor at George Mason University. She holds faculty appointments in the Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science departments. She is an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Fellow and recently served as the senior safety advisor to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Cummings received her BS in Mathematics from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1988, her MS in Space Systems Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1994, and her PhD in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2004.
Keynote: Dr. Marc Duranton
Senior Fellow of CEA
Title: The Next Computing Paradigm: where the computing continuum and AI meet the physical world
Dr. Marc Duranton is Senior Fellow of CEA and member of the Digital Systems and Integrated Circuits Division of CEA, where he is involved in realizations (hardware accelerators and software tools) for Artificial Intelligence, for Cyber Physical Systems and for distributed systems from IoT to HPC.
He previously worked in Philips and NXP where he led the development of the family of L-Neuro chips, digital processors using artificial neural networks and on several video coprocessors for the VLIW processor TriMedia.
His interests include High Performance Computing, Deep Learning, distributed and embedded Artificial Intelligence systems, emerging paradigms for computing systems, distributed and federated computing, models of computation and communication with time guaranties.
He is in charge of the roadmap activities of the HiPEAC community ( https://www.hipeac.net/vision/ ) and is involved in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda of the Electronics Components and Systems (ECS SRIA) and in the SRA of the European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing (ETP4HPC SRA).
Keynote: Dr Sebastian Hallensleben
Chair of CEN-CENELEC JTC 21
Title: The emerging European AI standardisation ecosystem
Dr Sebastian Hallensleben is the Chair of CEN-CENELEC JTC 21 where European AI standards to underpin EU regulation are being developed, and co-chairs the AI risk and accountability work at OECD. Sebastian is the initiator and Programme Chair of the Digital Trust Convention and is Principal Advisor Digital Trust at KI Park. As Chief Trust Officer at resaro, he works towards drilling down to ground truths about capabilities of AI systems. – Previously, Sebastian Hallensleben headed Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence at VDE Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies. He focuses in particular on operationalising AI ethics, on characterizing AI quality and on building privacy-preserving trust infrastructures for a more resilient digital space.
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