Interview

Dr. Benazouz Bradaï is Research & Innovation Director and Master Expert in Autonomous Driving at Valeo.  In that role, he’s made major scientific and industrial contributions.  He is also a scientific co-director of the ASTRA (Automated systems for Safe TRAnsportation) joint lab with Inria in France. Bradaï holds a PhD in automatic control from Haute…

Raed El Makhour joined Wideye by way of AGC in 2021, and is currently the company’s Chief Product & Marketing Officer—a leadership role wherein he is responsible for product strategy and roadmap; he also handles market intelligence activity. From 2016 to 2021, he was with Renesas Electronics, where he served as ADAS segment leader and…

Stella Xie joined RoboSense in 2019 and is currently responsible for the company’s product strategic development planning and intellectual property management. From 2016 to 2019, he worked at DJI as intellectual property manager, with a leadership role in the research and development of lidar; chips; deep learning algorithms; flight controllers; navigation; and other technologies, and…

Rafi Harel is an experienced senior executive with over 30 years in the hi-tech industry in R&D; engineering, and  product-delivery C-level positions in leading worldwide global teams:  GM Finisar Israel, 2010-2016 VP R&D Orckit-Corrignet, 2001-2010 IDF Intelligence Elite Technology unit, 1992-1999 DVN: Opsys, founded in 2016, are still perceived as new. Tell us about your company, won’t…

Manuel Ligges earned his diploma and physics Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of Duisburg-Essen, where he continued to work as a senior researcher in light-matter interaction. In 2019, he joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic circuits and Systems (IMS) in Duisburg as the Head of Optical Systems. DVN:  Manuel, thank you for talking with us. Fraunhofer…