KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Frederik De Belie
Electrical Energy Laboratory, Ghent University
Title: Supporting the Flemish Manufacturing Industry through the Research Centre “Flanders Make”:
Experiences from an Academic Perspective
Abstract: The Flemish government wishes to actively support companies in the manufacturing industry with the aim to develop and optimize their products and production processes. Combining efforts with core labs at five Flemish universities, co-creation centers, a drone cluster and companies, Flanders Make constitutes a strategic research centre for the manufacturing industry, pursuing open innovation through excellent research. In this keynote, I will share my experiences as a member of Flanders Make in one of its core labs, and as an associate professor at Ghent University with a personal research background in electrical machines and drives.
CV: Frederik De Belie was born in Belgium in 1979. He received the Ph.D. degree in electromechanical engineering from Ghent University, Belgium, in 2010 on self-sensing control of synchronous machines for which he was granted a patent and the Biennial Iwan Akerman Award. He’s currently with the Electrical Energy Laboratory of Ghent University as an associate professor, responsible for bachelor and master engineering courses on electrical machines and drives, and guides as scientific promotor several PhD students in related topics. He is a member of Flanders Make, a strategic research consortium supporting the Flemish make industry, serving as an academic research partner in motion control related projects. He has published more than 150 scientific articles of which 45 appear in international peer reviewed journals. His present research interests include online identification and modelling for the control-system theory applied to mechatronic systems powered by electric actuators, with his latest addition on the contra-rotating control of a single stator dual rotor switched reluctance machine.
Milan Z. Bjelica
Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad
Title: Making Smart Systems Safe and Secure:
Caveats and Blueprints from the Automotive Industry
Abstract: Smart systems and technologies continue to proliferate across industry domains. The introduction of digital technologies and complex software in the consumer industries, such as the Internet or media distribution, was a success story. However, the introduction of software-defined approaches in safety and security-critical industries, such as smart cities, factories or mobility, presents many caveats. In the talk, we are dissecting the blueprints for safe and secure developments in the automotive industry, applied to automated and autonomous driving. The audience would be offered a comprehensible overview of how modern standards, such as ASPICE, ISO 26262 and ISO 21434 can be applied in companies to construct a compelling safety and security case for road vehicles and their items. Caveats and key challenges around software complexity will be presented, giving ideas on how to bridge the gap between the agility and somewhat ad-hoc practices of present-day software engineers, with the rigor required to deliver safe and secure solutions.
CV: Dr. Bjelica is a Full Professor at the FTN Uni Novi Sad, a Functional Safety Instructor at the University of California San Diego, and the CEO of NIT Institute. He actively participates in research and innovation activities for various computer-engineering sectors, focusing on consultancy and training in the fields of system safety, functional safety, automotive engineering, and consumer electronics. During his career, he consulted companies in the automotive industry (ZF Germany, TTTech Austria, Qualcomm Automotive USA, Daimler Germany) and also other companies in consumer electronics, industrial machinery, and computing domains. He is a distinguished lecturer by the IEEE Product Safety Engineering society and a frequent participant and a speaker at major industry events worldwide. Dr. Bjelica holds a Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, as well as an Academic Safety Engineer degree from the FH CampusWien – Vienna Institute for Safety and Systems Engineering (Austria). His professional and research focus is on complex system and software architectures with specific interactions and virtualization. He authored over 100 publications across major journals and scientific conferences and holds 30 patents.