Program

 

Day 1 - OCTOBER 22, 2024

8:15

Registration Open

9:00 - 9:30

General Chair Welcome Message: Ding Zhao

Overview of CMU COE: Bill Sanders

Overview of the History of Automated Vehicles: Raj Rajkumar

9:30 - 10:50

Keynotes
Chris Atkinson, U.S. Department of Transportation

“Integrating Our Physical and Digital Transportation Infrastructure”

Bo Li, University of Chicago

Conrad Tucker, Carnegie Mellon University

Nat Beuse, Aurora Innovation

“Building Safety Confidence in AV Performance”

10:50 -11:00

Coffee Break

11:00- 11:40

Keynote

Mykel Kochenderfer, Stanford University

“Building Validating Safety Critical Systems”

11:40 - 12:10

Panel Discussion

Impact of New Technologies

Bo Li

Chris Atkinson

Nat Beuse

Mykel Kochenderfer

12:10 - 13:00

Lunch on your own

Poster Session

13:00 - 14:20

Keynotes

H. Eric Tseng, The University of Texas at Arlington

“Designing Safe Autonomous Vehicles”

Jason JonMichael, U.S. Department of Transportation

“Which Way to the New Mobility Era?”

Axel Schwarz, Robert Bosch GmbH

“E2E Multimodal Autonomous Driving - Large Feature Spaces for Sensing, Understanding, and Sage Decision-Making”

Steve Xie, Lightwheel AI

“Synthetic Data to Accelerate AV Large Model Development & Validation”

15:30 - 17:30

K12 Event

14:20 - 14:30

Coffee Break

14:30 - 15:10

Keynote

Scott Moura, University of California, Berkeley

“The Future of Transportation is Automated, Connected & Electrified”

15:10 - 15:40

Panel Discussion

How to Scale Up?

Jason JonMichael

Axel Schwarz

Steve Xie

Scott Moura

15:15 - 15:30

Coffee Break

15:40 - 16:30

Paper Presentation

16:30 - 17:30

Live Demonstration
Day 2 - OCTOBER 23, 2024

8:15

Registration Open

9:00 - 10:50

Keynotes

Stanley Caldwell, Director, SMART Grants Program

“Insights from First Two Years of the SMART Grants Program”

Olaf Op den Camp, TNO

“EU Landscape for Safety Assessment of Automated Driving”

Phil Koopman, Carnegie Mellon University

“Understanding Self-Driving Vehicle Safety”

Daniel Watzenig, Graz University of Technology and Virtual Vehicle Research

“Multi-Modal Perception for Autonomous Systems”

10:50 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:40

Keynote

Henry Liu, University of Michigan

“Safety Assessment for Autonomous Vehicles”

11:40 -12:10

Panel Discussion

Policies Innovation Globally

Henry Liu

Olaf Op den Camp

Stanley Caldwell

Daniel Watzenig

12:10 - 13:00

Lunch on your own

Poster Session

13:00 - 14:00

Paper Presentation

14:00 - 14:15

Awards and Closing Ceremony

14:15 - 15:30

Carnegie Robotics & Thoro.ai Tour