I manage the HITACHI "Automotive & Industry Lab." (A&IL) within the European Centre for Social Innovation (CSI EU).
A&IL includes 3 sites:
- in Sophia Antipolis, FR, we innovate with Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) for the CONNECTED AUTONOMOUS CARS domain (including related Standardization) and their integration within Smart Cities.
- in Munich, DE, we innovate with SMART AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS for next generation Dynamic Control of vehicle, in particular Autonomous Vehicles, and with SMART ENGINE COMBUSTION technologies.
- in Aachen, DE, we innovate for next generation SMART MANUFACTURING PROCESSES, in particular with the application of IoT/M2M for Industrie4.0 domain.
I previously managed 2 other Social Innovation sites of HITACHI in Europe: in Manchester, UK, and in Copenhagen, DK, where we apply Big Data/Analytics for eHealth and Hospitals management.
I also contribute as Senior Researcher to HITACHI, and as bridge towards European potential partners and customers of the HITACHI Group Business Divisions.
I represent HITACHI in several European or French public projects’ Steering Committees, where I also contribute to, together with my Teams.
I was Coordinator of the EU FP7 project “eCo-FEV”, and my Team contributed to the project results. We also active partner in the Autonet2030 project.
HITACHI is Associate Member of the industrial Car-2-Car Communication Consortium (C2C-CC), with me appointed as Contact for the HITACHI Group.
HITACHI is Full Member of ETSI, with me appointed as the Contact for the HITACHI Group, and where I am active in the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Technical Committee.
I contributed to several publications, and was Reviewer within some Conferences’ Technical Committees. I coordinated some Sessions at different Conferences, and was invited as Panellist several times.
Main interest: Industrial R&D Laboratory management, particularly in the field of ICT for the Automotive and Industry sectors.
Mes compétences :
ETSI
M2M
Mobile
Networks
Routing
Sensor
Télécommunications
Wireless
IoT
Big Data
Automotive