Summary—Autonomous vehicle is one of the alternatives available in the mobility industry that can be used as intelligent vehicles in the near future. There are many research and business opportunities available in this area. Well known vehicle manufacturers and universities all around the world are working on this interesting topic. This forum will discuss on the technologies such as advanced power train, secured vehicle communication system, vehicle sensor network, advanced electrical machines, intelligent embedded system, battery technology, adaptive control technology, deep learning, advanced light weight material, cloud technology and intelligent mapping that are needed by the autonomous vehicle in order to operate safely on public roads. The conducive government policy to support this initiative and the safety procedures and protocols to handle this vehicle will also be discussed.

Biographies

Ishak Bin Aris is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia and was the Deputy Director of the Institute of Advanced Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia (2007-2010). He is also Adjunct Professor at Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Prior to this appointment, he was an army officer and a lecture at School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia. He graduated from the George Washington University, USA, in Electrical Engineering (1988). He obtained his MSc in Power Electronics Engineering from University of Bradford/ Loughborough University of Technology, United Kingdom (1991) and PhD from University of Bradford, United Kingdom (1995), respectively. He was a military officer in Malaysian Army. His areas of research interest include automotive power train system, vehicle communication and network, power electronics and drive system, electric vehicle, intelligent energy efficient vehicle, embedded system, artificial intelligence, image processing, UAV, robotic system, autonomous vehicle and IoT system. He has authored and co-authored more than 400 (114 in citation indexed journals, 41 in non-citation indexed journals, and 229 in international proceedings, 25 standards) academic and professional papers and reports. He has 7 patents granted, 8 patents pending and 5 copyrights. He has also been awarded gold medals and special awards at International Exhibition on Research Products at Eureka Brussels, INPEX USA, IENA Germany, INNOVA and ITEX, Kuala Lumpur for his research work. He received Honorary Professor School of Engineering & Technology Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India on in 2017.

Khairil Anwar Bin Abu Kassim is the Secretary General of ASEAN NCAP, one of ten NCAP’s in the world that encourage safer cars development in the market. He is also the former Head of Crash Safety Engineering Unit (CRASE) in MIROS, one of the leaders in vehicle safety area that help researchers & engineers to realize their full potential in the safety system. To date, he has been supervising and developing multiple International and local research and development grants and projects in MIROS with a total worth RM 20 Million. On February 25th, 2010, MIROS has created the nation history by conducting Passenger Car Outdoor Crash Test, the first in Malaysia and South East ASEAN, this success story spread out to Europe, USA and others ASIAN countries. It was never in their mind, that country like Malaysia able to execute a crash test. Currently, the MIROS PC3 has conducted more than 100 crash tests since May 2012 and it is one of the official crash laboratories for ASEAN NCAP. In his junior years, Khairil left Okayama University of Science to devote his energies to several companies in Japan and Malaysia. It was his third job at Autoliv Hirotako that makes he choose the career of saving people life through safety equipment’s. The vision than brought to MIROS, in a broader position, to enhance manufacturer’s performance to produce a safer vehicle. Under Khairil’s leadership, ASEAN NCAP mission continually improves towards establishing a reliable independent consumer information for safer cars. More manufacturers have increased their vehicle safety capacity and ability as a result of safety rating and strategies implemented by the team. It is well accepted that to enter the ASEAN market, the minimum required rating is now 4 star which confidently translate to reduction of road fatality. MIROS has recognized his commitment by awarding him the Excellent Service Award in his first full service year in 2009 and Most Impact Researcher Award in 2010. He is also receiving special awards for his dedicated works and commitment throughout his tenure. The opportunities to work at several corners of the world has given him a chance to expand his professional capacity throughout his life and career. However the privilege comes with immense responsibilities and exciting challenge set by MIROS. Admittedly, he will devote himself until vehicle safety becomes standard, not as an option.

Mohd Nizmar bin Nazar is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Malaysia Automotive Institute (MAI). Represents the Government & Stakeholders of Malaysian Automotive Industry on Industry 4.0 business digital transformation, technology, digital engineering & smart engineering/manufacturing. Lead the I4.0 assessment & implementation of enterprise network & process integration to 9 pillars of Industry 4.0. Has a background in Software Engineering & Mobility Infrastructure, Agile & Knowledge Management System. Involved in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) for mobility as a service (MaaS) development under automated drive, telematics implementation, simulation & augmented reality (AR) integration. Lead on the services and new mobility functions that make transport and travelling safer, green, more efficient. Include applications that use data from other vehicles, from the infrastructure or from a backend (cloud) to provide information about dangers and obstacles on the road, as well as entirely novel functions in the fields of journey, fleet and traffic management. Has years of experience in I.T & Automotive Industry, Passion on changing the way the world works from a range of scope such as engineering, services, training/talents development & manufacturing. Combining experience between Big Data Analytics, Agile/Knowledge Management, Lean Production System (LPS), I.T & Engineering together with organisations and entrepreneurs that are keeping abreast with the latest technological development and having the creative and innovative abilities to exploit technologies on helping the Auto sector moving into high gear for the future of next-gen vehicle, automotive industrial arena & industry 4.0 implementation.

Md Ridzuan Md Yusof is leading the e-mobility initiatives for PROTON and a key figure on the development of technology demonstrator and vehicle electrification projects such as Electric/Hybrid cars as well as promoting vehicle safety via technology showcased during strategic events (Autoshow, Carnival etc) and 3/4S Proton outlets. He possesses more than 18 years diversify experiences in vehicle research and development specializing in e-drive system integration, vehicle connectivity, vehicle safety, advanced control, alternative energy and storage system as well as technology evaluation and road mapping. Being the Industrial Advisory Panel (IAP) for several local universities and published technical papers to numbers of conferences as well as being invited speakers to international forums in area of e-mobility and vehicle electrification. He is also acquired a few patents in vehicle electrification and member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). In addition, he is the technical panel of MyLab (Malaysia Laboratories for Academia-Business Collaboration) under Ministry of Education.

Horizon Walker Gitano-Briggs is the Chief Executive Officer (CE), Focus Applied Technologies. After completing his masters at the University of California at San Diego, Horizon hitchhiked around Central America for a year, working on farms and national park as he traveled. From 1992 to 2001 he worked at Seagate R&D centers in the US and their factories around the world including Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and China. In 2001 he returned to Colorado State University to complete his PhD in Mechanical Engineering. He was a lecturer at Colorado State University 2002-2004 and from 2006 to 2012 was a Professor at the University Science Malaysia. In 2008 he founded Focus Applied Technologies as a technology company producing engine and vehicle test, measurement and control systems. Horizon runs Focus full time, frequently lectures at various universities and industries, performs research for various governmental bodies including the UNFCCC (UN), GIZ (Germany), SIRIM (Malaysia) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and is a visiting professor at the University of Kuala Lumpur – Malaysian Spanish Institute, University Malaysia Pahang in Malaysia, and Del La Salle University in Manila.

Summary—The Internet of Things introduces a new paradigm shifts while revolutionizes different domains as a general purpose technology. Last couple of years have seen the rise of IoT while implementing in different types of applications to solve technical and business problems. Moreover, IoT also invents new range of end-to-end solutions with data as a source of smart applications. This forum will be presenting three industry experts from Oil & Gas, Industrial and automotive computing background to share their technical and business insights and experiences of applying IoT.

Biographies

Usman Sarwar is a technologist, software architect & validation architect working on IoT connectivity technologies with seventeen years of R&D, software development and testing experience. He has diverse technical background by working on areas related to Connectivity technologies, IoT protocols and systems, middleware protocol systems, voice & video over IP and domain-specific search engines. Usman has applied IoT technologies in smart city, smart building and smart homes related projects. Currently, Usman is working on Time Sensitive Networking for current and next generation Silicon and Software with targeted market of next generation industrial solutions (within Industrie 4.0). He is also contributing to standards and certification for next generation industrial solutions with TSN. Usman has been strategic liasion for Intel Corporation in ZigBee and Thread Alliances which creates certification and standards for smart home and building market. He is an inventor/co-inventor of 24 patents and have published 25 research papers related to IoT and network systems. He has won several international and national awards for technical innovations. He has been invited speaker in various technical conferences.

Samsuri Che Embi graduated with Bachelor in Computer Science from Indiana State University, USA, and Master of Science in Computer Science from Florida Institute of Technology, USA, respectively. He has more than twenty years of telecommunication experience; including software development, consultancy, sales and strategy and also business development. Previously, he led the M2M initiative for Maxis and responsible for driving and promoting Maxis’ growth in the Machine to Machine (M2M) market. Currently, he is the IoT Architect at Petronas Research in Malaysia, overseeing the IoT and M2M initiative within Petronas Group.

Say Chuan Tan is a veteran in automotive industry with more than 15 years experiences, overseeing the transformation of car infotainment system from car radio to Smart and Connected In-Vehicle Cockpit. He has been leading various automotive related design with partners such as Telematics System and Software Defined Cockpit as System Architect, introducing the solutions to various industries such as Logicstic, Electric Vehicle and Transportation. He is currently serve as Senior Staff Engineer in Intel with primary responsibility center around user defined system requirement, providing system and technical advisory to executive partners, and working on future automotive technology. Say Chuan hold BSc in 1997, major in Microelectronis and Physics at Campbell University.

Amir Farid Abdul Majid is a certified professional engineer, is currently a Lead Diagnostic Engineer for the Turbo Machinery Solution- Service Engineering at Baker Hughes General Electric (BHGE). He graduated from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) with a degree in Electrical, Electronic & System and later completed Master Degree from The University of Sheffield, UK in Control System Engineering. Recently he completed his MBA Degree from Putra Business School (PBS) majoring in Finance. He started his career as Product development Engineer at Intel Malaysia. After completed his master degree, he joined Motorola Penang as Electrical Electronic design engineer for short period of time before he pursue his career with Alstom Power as Control Commissioning Engineer for Power generation plants with assignments at various overseas project in Italy, Saudi, Netherlands and UK. Later he joined GE Oil & Gas as Control Instrumentation Field Service Engineer for projects assignment based in Kazakhstan, Thailand, Japan and Papua New Guinea. Currently he is working as Lead Diagnostic Engineer in BHGE Remote Monitoring Center in KL. ICenter KL is one of the three centers in the world for BGHE that monitor turbo machinery equipment globally such as Gas turbine, Gas compressor, Steam turbine and Generator.

Summary—RF sensing encompasses the use of radio frequency signal itself as a sensor to measure/sense the transmission or scattering properties of the physical medium. Using RF sensing mechanism, any wireless network can turn into a sensor network. RF signal contains very useful information that can be the key enabler in providing contextual awareness based services like localization, presence detection, object tracking, gesture recognition, authentication, health monitoring and many others. Conventional sensing using cameras or audio systems have a major disadvantage of privacy intrusion of the user. Adding additional sensors to the environment becomes an expensive and cumbersome option. The choice of using RF signal from an existing infrastructure as a sensor to over-come multiple shortcomings that the traditional systems have makes it a very lucrative low cost solution. In recent years, the application of deep learning and AI techniques has pushed the boundaries of what can be measured and learnt over time from having access to the radio information. In this panel, we discuss various 5G applications and services that can be enabled by RF sensing techniques that can be applied to smart home, smart cities and industrial automation use cases.

Biographies

Swetha Muniraju is currently working as Department Head in Nokia Bell Labs, Sunnyvale. She has over 7 years of industry experience working on cutting edge radio technologies and building innovative applications together with industry partners and leading university groups. In her current work, she is leading the research activities that involves exploring RF sensing capabilities and modeling AI based end-to-end multi-sensory systems that can be applied to real-world smart home, smart building and smart city deployments. Her professional interests span out into areas like artificial intelligence and machine learning for wireless systems, IOT edge computing, signal processing and sensor fusion techniques. She received her Bachelor’s degree with Electronics and Communication major from MSRIT, India and received her Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Science Engineering with Wireless Communication and Signal Processing major from CSUF in 2012.

Jasbir Singh is a Product Architect at Texas Instruments India Pvt Ltd. He is currently leading the mmWave radar SoC Architecture and has extensive experience in Design, Architecture and Implementation of Radar Systems as well as Satellite based Navigation Systems (GPS, Glonass, Galileo etc). He holds more than 20 patents and is awarded “Young Engineer Award” by Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2015.”

Dag T. Wisland received the M.Sc. and Dr.Scient. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, in 1996 and 2003, respectively. He is a co-founder of the semiconductor company Novelda AS and was the CEO from 2004 to 2013 when he was appointed CTO, a position he still holds. He is also a Professor with the Nanoelectronics Group, University of Oslo. He was the Head of the research group from 2004 to 2008. He has authored or co-authored several scientific publications and been the principal investigator / project manager for several international research and innovation projects. Dr. Wisland is a senior member of IEEE and serves as a TC member of the IEEE CAS society Analog Signal Processing (ASP) and Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BIOCAS) technical committees.

Sharad Sambhwani is a Sr. Director of Technology within Wireless R&D at Qualcomm Technologies Inc. He is currently leading the research on mmWave radar sensor applications. He has extensive experience in design, standardization and implementation of wireless communication systems such as 3G WCDMA/HSPA, LTE and 60 GHz backhaul. He represented Qualcomm as 3GPP RAN1 HSPA lead from 2007 to 2012 and is the recipient of the prestigious Qualcomm CR&D Distinguished Contributor Award (2008) for outstanding technical vision and contributions towards HSPA and WCDMA technologies. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Sharad began his career as Member of Technical Staff in the Advanced Technology department at Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ in 1996. He later had stints at a couple of startups, Algorex (acquired by National Semiconductors) and Quicksilver Technology. He received his MS and Ph.D. degree in EE from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY (now NYU) in 1992 and 1997 respectively. He holds ~150 granted patents and has authored 11 publications.

Debashis Dash, Algorithm Lead at Quantenna Communications is a System Architect with over 8 years of experience in designing MAC and PHY layer for wireless communications. Dash is well known for his expertise in system modeling, simulation, requirement analysis and innovative advanced algorithm development. He has extensive experience in algorithm and specification development for existing and new wireless technologies. Some of these include behavior recognition using WiFi, cloud-based SON, simulations and developing new MAC/PHY protocols for IEEE standards. Dash has worked as the Director of Firmware at Ubilite and as the MAC architect at Tensorcom prior to his role at Quantenna. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from RICE University and a B. Tech. degree from IIT Kanpur. He has a theoretical background in Information Theory and Graph Theory.