Cooperation Manager Automated Driving
BMW Group
Mountain View, CA, United States
Simon Fuerst studied Aerospace Engineering at the Technical University of Munich. From 1993 till 2001 he was a research assistant at the institute of System Dynamics and Flight Mechanics at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich. His research area was on onboard autonomous, vision based systems for navigation and landing of airplanes and helicopters.
From 2001 till 2002 he worked for IABG in Ottobrunn as a project leader and consultant for the qualification of the high risk avionics software in the Tiger helicopter and the Eurofighter Typhoon.
Since mid 2003 he is with BMW. There he is one of the authors of an internal software development standard for embedded software. From 2005 till March 2009 he was a member of the software group of the VDA NAA AA-I3 AK16 and a software expert in ISO TC22 SC3 WG16 working on ISO 26262, the functional safety standard for the automotive domain. During that time he was international project leader for some of the chapters of ISO 26262. In 2006 Fⁿrst became BMW Project Leader for AUTOSAR. In 2008 he switched to the AUTOSAR Steering Committee. From July 2009 till March 2010 and from July 2015 till March 2016 he was AUTOSAR Spokesperson. Till March 2017 he was general manager for software development and software infrastructure being responsible for the AUTOSAR series roll-out at BMW. In April 2017 he became general manager for machine learning, reasoning and knowledge representation focusing on highly automated and autonomous driving. From October 2017 on the devision responsible for automated driving and driver assistant systems adapted its organization to agile principles. From then on Simon became line manager for the development of software based features. In October 2019 was appointed principal experte for automated driving technologies. In December 2020 he became convener of the newly started ISO TC22/SC32/WG13 "Safety for driving automated systems". Since May 2022 he is cooperation manager for automated driving at BMW.
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Wednesday, July 10, 2024
2:30pm – 3:55pm PDT