Keynote Speaker: Tim Johnson
Tim Johnson is the Director of NHTSA’s Vehicle Research and Test Center (VRTC) which is located near Columbus, Ohio. As the VRTC Director, he has responsibility for carrying out applied research and testing to support agency programs in several key areas including advanced driver assistance technologies; human factors; heavy vehicle safety; electronic control systems safety, and cybersecurity; emerging technologies such as automated vehicles; crashworthiness; biomechanics; and defect investigations.
Dr. Blackett is the manager of the department of Humans and Automation at the Institute for Energy Technology in Halden, Norway. She currently works on topics such as human-automation interaction and optimization, cybersecurity and risk analysis, human reliability, and human performance analysis across multiple domains and industries including automotive, nuclear, petroleum, and aviation.
Stephen Thomas is a system safety engineer specializing in self-driving cars and autonomous vehicles. He currently leads the safety architecture and analysis team at Motional. He has a deep expertise in functional safety, including holding the Certified Functional Safety Expert (CFSE), IEC 61511 Safety Instrumented Systems Expert (ISA), and Automotive Functional Safety Professional (TUV) credentials. hIS CURRENT research is focused on safety analysis for complex autonomous systems.
Dr. Slavkovik is an associate professor in Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen. Her current research interests are Machine ethics (or artificial morality): how to implement ethical behavior in computational agents? how to decide who should decide what is right/wrong for a machine? ; Logic reasoning in social networks: information distortions, social influence, information diffusion; AND Collective reasoning and decision making: computational social choice, judgment aggregation flavor.
Dr. Balk joined the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) as the Division Chief for Human Factors/Engineering Integration within the Office of Vehicle Crash Avoidance and Electronic Controls in 2019. Prior to this role, Stacy was as the Human Factors Program Manager for Leidos, where she led and managed the Office of Safety R&D on-site support contract at FHWA’s Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC), and served as a senior leader of Leidos’ Surface Transportation Portfolio. Her work has focused on human factors research related to highway safety and operations, traffic engineering, and intelligent transportation systems.
Dr. Farrell is a Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Computer Science at Maynooth University working on the VALU3S project. This work focuses on verification tools and techniques for the aerospace domain. Previously, she was at the Universities of Manchester and Liverpool on the EPSRC funded FAIR-SPACE Hub but also participating in the RAIN and ORCA Hubs. This work involved on using and combining formal methods to reason about and provide certification evidence for robotic systems that are to be deployed in hazardous environments.
