Keynote Speakers
Dr. Jorge Villagra​
Jorge Villagra graduated in Industrial Engineering at the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid in 2002. He received his PhD in Real-Time Computer Science, Robotics and Automatic Control at the École des Mines de Paris (France) in 2006. From 2007 to 2009 he held a position of Visiting Professor at the University Carlos III (Spain). He then received a 3-year JAE Doc fellowship at the AUTOPIA Program in the Centre for Automation and Robotics, UPM-CSIC (Spain). From 2013 until 2016 he led the Department of ADAS and Autonomous Driving Systems at Ixion Industry & Aerospace SL. He is leading AUTOPIA Program at CSIC since October 2016. He has been involved in 38 projects – 13 European, 20 national and 5 private contracts. He is or has been IP in 17 of these projects. He has participated in the Program Committee of several international conferences, and published over 100 papers in international journals and conferences on connected and automated driving. Learn More.
Prof. Olivier Sename
Olivier Sename received a Ph.D. degree from Ecole Centrale Nantes in 1994. He is now Professor at the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble within GIPSA-lab. His main research interests include Linear Parameter Varying systems and automotive applications. He is the (co-)author of 2 books, 60 international journal papers, and more than 200 international conference papers. He was the General Chair of the IFAC Joint Conference SSSC-TDS-FDA 2013, of the 1st IFAC Workshop on Linear Parameter Varying Systems 2015 and he was the IPC Chair of the 2nd IFAC Workshop LPVS 2018. He has led several industrial (Renault, Volvo Trucks, JTEKT, Delphi) and international (Mexico, Italy, Hungary) collaboration projects. He has supervised 32 Ph.D. students. Learn More.
Workshop Papers
Dr. Moad Kissai
Moad Kissai received his PhD degree on automotive and control engineering from ENSTA Paris, France in 2019, his M.Sc. in mobility and electric vehicles from Arts et Métiers ParisTech, France in 2015, and his degree of Engineer in Electromechanics from National Graduate Engineering School – Mines Rabat, Morocco in 2014. His current research interests include vehicle motion control, chassis systems coordination, control allocation, and robust control. Dr. Kissai is an active Member of IEEE Control Systems and Intelligent Transportation Systems Societies. He has more than 15 research publications. He was finalist in the best student paper award at The 2018 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV’18), the premier annual technical forum sponsored by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS), received best oral presentation award at 2018 7th International Conference on Mechatronics and Control Engineering (ICMCE 2018), and the outstanding paper award from ICROS at the 2019 19th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS 2019). Finally, Dr. Kissai was also an associate editor at ITSC 2019, and he is currently an associate editor at both IV and ITSC 2020. Learn More.
Mr. Matthew Brown
Matthew Brown received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, in 2013. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering with Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. His current research interests include architecture of autonomous vehicle systems and the interaction between trajectory planning and lower level control. Mr. Brown was a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award in 2013. Learn More.