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Image Sensors & IS Auto is brought together experts from the auto industry and companies from all areas of the image sensor supply chain to support advancements in the imaging industry and improve the quality of products we use in our everyday lives. This event united globally recognized experts for high caliber discussions and networking opportunities that you will not find in any other event in the market.
The 2020 Online Event Featured:
After several executive positions in B2B Sales and Marketing, Dr.-Ing. Ronald Mueller founded Vision Markets in 2014 with the mission to support companies to grow in the Imaging field. Quickly, Vision Markets became the leading Marketing and Management Consulting Company dedicated to the global Machine Vision industry. With a team of currently 8 co-workers Vision Markets has already supported over 55 SMEs as well as multi-billion dollar companies from Tokyo to Vancouver. The quality of the offerings derives from the technical know-how of imaging technologies, the market expertise built since 2002, and the executive management experience of its consultants. On this basis, Vision Markets enables its clients to grow with strategic consulting services in Marketing, Sales, Product Management, and Corporate Acquisitions. Operational outsourcing services like recruiting, public relations management, writing of marketing content, and digital marketing are complementing the portfolio. Furthermore, Ronald is member of several Machine Vision innovation award juries.
Avi Bakal, Co-Founder & CEO of TriEye has achieved a mass-scale technological breakthrough in record time, creating a giant leap in ADAS & AV safety, reliability, and functionality. Avi is an experienced multidisciplinary Physicist and Electrical-Engineer. He has a BSc in Computer Science & Electrical-Engineering and an MSc in Applied Physics specializing in optics and lasers. Avi served as a combat commander in a special Air-Force unit. Earlier this year, he was named as CEO of the Year by ISE.
Scott is both co-founder and co-dreamer at Sense. He has 30 years of commercial and innovative product experience in III-V compound semiconductors and optics. Before Sense, Scott served as Executive Vice President of manufacturing and technology development at Semprius Corp, Vice President of Engineering at Santur Corporation, Vice President of Technology at Optovia, and Vice President of Operations at CoreTek, a successful tunable laser start-up acquired by Nortel. Scott started his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he helped to develop and manufacture GaAs semiconductor lasers for the world’s first commercial fiber optic communication systems.
Barmak brings over 25 years in mixed-signal integrated circuit design, semiconductor device physics and device micro-fabrication with specialization in active pixel sensors (APS), infrared focal plane array technology and high-speed communication. Previous to founding Forza Silicon, Barmak was with Photobit Corporation and NASA JPL’s Advanced Imager Technology Group. Barmak holds 17 patents in image sensor design and has contributed to over 20 articles in imaging and high-speed data communication. He received his BSEE and MSEE degrees, as well as his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, from UC San Diego.
Is currently a Feature Integration Engineer – Vision Systems at General Motors (GM). Sai is the Subject Matter Expert for GM’s Image Quality. Being a collaborative, cross-functional Global Autonomous Driving Center’s key team player, he is very much focused towards the ultimate customer satisfaction by developing new methods, simulation models and test equipment for vehicle level testing of Image Quality at GM. Sai’s interests include Tool Scripting, Active Safety Viewing Systems, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Object Recognition, Pattern Recognition, Cyber-Security, and Simulation. He was an Active Safety Performance Engineer – Vision Systems (2015 to 2018) at GM. His innovative approach led to outlining and execution of GM’s Image Quality vehicle level testing strategy. Sai is the technical lead on Image Quality for multiple industry-first vision systems related features. He has 10+ US patents in viewing systems, pattern recognition, object recognition. Sai got his Masters in Electrical Engineering from Wayne State University, a Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Swami Vivekananda Institute of Technology, a Diploma in Computer Applications and a Diploma in Multimedia.
Beat De Coi is founder and CEO of Swiss based ES-PROS Photonics corporation. He and his team devel-oped a backside illumination imager technology, which allows to build sensitive CCD charge manipula-tion elements within CMOS chip devices. With this technology, high speed imaging, time-of-flight dis-tance detection as well as wide band spectral sensing devices are available on the market. Beat De Coi is elected member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences SATW.
ESPROS Photonics is a world-class foundry, product, and technology solution provider for optoelectronics manufacturers, imager designers, and researchers. The privately owned company with more than 70 employees working in the Swiss headquarters was founded in 2006 by Beat De Coi.
www.espros.com
Mayank Mangla is ADAS imaging architect at Texas Instruments. He has been a key member of the TI imaging team since the early days of digital imaging. He has a deep understanding of all aspects of digital camera systems including color science, optics, software and calibration processes. Currently he is focused on ramping ISPs into automotive applications and enabling new imaging applications with versatile feature set TI SoCs such as the TDA3x.
After several executive positions in B2B Sales and Marketing, Dr.-Ing. Ronald Mueller founded Vision Markets in 2014 with the mission to support companies to grow in the Imaging field. Quickly, Vision Markets became the leading Marketing and Management Consulting Company dedicated to the global Machine Vision industry. With a team of currently 8 co-workers Vision Markets has already supported over 55 SMEs as well as multi-billion dollar companies from Tokyo to Vancouver. The quality of the offerings derives from the technical know-how of imaging technologies, the market expertise built since 2002, and the executive management experience of its consultants. On this basis, Vision Markets enables its clients to grow with strategic consulting services in Marketing, Sales, Product Management, and Corporate Acquisitions. Operational outsourcing services like recruiting, public relations management, writing of marketing content, and digital marketing are complementing the portfolio. Furthermore, Ronald is member of several Machine Vision innovation award juries.
Peter Centen is Vice President R&D, Cameras for Grass Valley, A Belden Brand and he has over 30 years of experience in managing innovation in imaging technology. During his time with Grass Valley, Peter has been instrumental in transitioning the camera manufacturer from CCD-imagers to CMOS imagers across the entire product range, which enabled the present-day HD, 4K and HDR imaging. He was the inventor of HD-DPM technology for which Thomson/Technicolor was awarded an Emmy in 2003. In 2016 he received the David Sarnoff award for his work in imaging. He holds a BSc an MSc with honors and a Ph.D. He is a member of the IEEE and SMPTE and has published over 65 journal and conference articles in related fields and has presented his work at dozens of international conferences.
Dan McGrath has worked for 37 years specializing in the device physics of silicon-based pixels, CCD and CIS, and in the integration of image-sensor process enhancements in the manufacturing flow. He chose his first job because it offered that “studying defects in image sensors means doing physics” and has kept this passion front-and-center in his work. He has pursued this work at Texas Instruments, Polaroid, Atmel, Eastman Kodak, Aptina, BAE Systems, and GOODiX Technology and has worked with manufacturing facilities in France, Italy, Taiwan, and the USA. His publications include the first megapixel CCD and the basis for dark current spectroscopy (DCS).
Gloria Putnam joined Gpixel in 2019 to direct the company’s marketing activities in the Americas and accelerate its growth in scientific, industrial, professional video and VR/AR imaging applications. During her 16 year career at Eastman Kodak/Truesense Imaging/ONSemi, she built and led an international organization for applications engineering, business development, product marketing, strategic marketing, and demand planning to support the growth of the CCD business and the integration of the acquired National Semiconductor automotive business, and later the ONSemi industrial CMOS sensor business and the previously Aptina security sensor business. Recently, Gloria has been enjoying refamiliarizing herself with the scientific imaging market and related applications, and exploring emerging areas like the use of AI in pathology. She holds B.S. degrees in Mathematics and Physics from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and an M.S. degree in Physics from California State University, Fullerton.
Abhay Rai is VP Product Marketing at Visteon. He was previously Head of Automotive Sensor Marketing, working at the Automotive Innovation center of Sony Electronics San Jose CA.
Abhay has extensive experience in automotive sensing and systems. Abhay started his career as analog design architect, designing low power, low noise human interface sensors that touch millions of hands every day. Abhay has worked in 5 different countries and managed many design and system teams.
Abhay received MSEE from Colorado State University and Executive MBA from University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of business.
