CISES Speaker
Weide Zhang
Weide Zhang is chief architect of FAW (Nanjing) Technology Development Co.,Ltd supervising the development of L2-L4 development of autonomous technology. Before FAW, he was a senior architect at Baidu and one of the early founding members of Baidu Apollo team. Before Baidu, he had been working in various areas of system development as well as machine learning in the past 7 years. He has Masters degree in Computer Science and System Engineering from University of Virginia and Bachelors in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Panellist for Discussion: New Enablers Towards High Level Autonomous Driving
FAW (Nanjing) Technology Development Co., Ltd
FAW (Nanjing) Technology Development Co., LTD (referred to as FAW Nanjing Company) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of FAW Group Corporation, which was established on April 9, 2020. FAW Nanjing Company, as FAW Group Corporation’s Artificial Intelligence research and development center, mainly focus on AI perception system and AI big data platform. The AI perception system is able to support L2-L4 autonomous driving. The AI big data platform includes data analysis, customer behavior analysis, and so on. The company aim to be a reliable intelligent driving partner, who infuses vehicles with soul, and makes travel easier.
Mustafa Pinarbasi is the CTO and Sr. Vice President of Magnetics Technology at Spin Memory (Previously Spin Transfer Technologies). Before joining Spin Memory in 2013, Dr. Pinarbasi was a CTO and SVP of Technology Development at SoloPower, Advanced Technology Department Manager at Hitachi GST and Distinguished Engineer at IBM. His accomplishments at IBM include the development of the giant magneto-resistance sensor used in the first GMR-based hard disk drives (HDD) and pioneering the adoption of ion beam sputtering technology into the read sensor production. He led the development of tunneling magneto-resistance (TMR) read head processing at Hitachi GST and the development of flexible and light weight solar panels at SoloPower. Dr. Pinarbasi holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is an inventor with over 200 U.S. patents, has authored or co-authored over 30 scientific publications and has received numerous industry awards.
Mr. Ning Chen used to work in the mobile communication industry in Japan for long years. After joined Panasonic in 2003, he has been engaged in the development of advanced sensor solutions for smart systems. He is now the Director of China Technology Center of Industrial Solutions Company.
Ron, who joined CNW in early 2013 after over a decade at DHL, sees himself as customer-centric. He is available day and night to listen and help customers realize that CNW is their most reliable special logistics partner. Ron believes in open communications and making it easy for them to approach CNW with urgent and emergency shipping challenges, no matter how complicated.</span>
Hermann Waltl is currently the executive sales and customer support director for EV Group (EVG). In this role, he is responsible for overseeing EVG’s worldwide sales operations across all of the company’s product lines and key markets including Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. Waltl joined EV Group in 2002 as a sales operations manager where he was responsible for all aspects of worldwide contract management and sales administration for three years.
Julio Coppo is currently serving the role of Vice President of Sales and Strategic Business Development for Nanotronics, a technology company that builds robotic, artificially intelligent industrial grade microscopes, including nSpec® and nSpec® 3D. nSpec®’s highly customizable software and hardware, enables these products to serve the semiconductor, material sciences, rubber, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Julio joined Nanotronics in the Fall of 2016 and he oversees the global sales and customer outreach team.
Mario Morales is the program vice president of IDC’s enabling technologies, storage, and semiconductor research. He is responsible for in-depth analysis, evaluation of emerging markets and trends, forecasting, and research of major semiconductor industry segments such as embedded and intelligent systems, wireless, personal computing, networking and cloud infrastructure, automotive electronics, and consumer.