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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nDr. Joe Zietsman is the Deputy Agency Director of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) where he oversees TTI\u2019s vast research portfolio. He is a national expert on emissions, air quality, and sustainable transportation. He is also the director of the USDOT-funded Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy and Health (CARTEEH), established in 2016 and renewed again in 2022. He is a past Chair of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Sustainable Transportation and has served in various capacities on TRB committees and task forces. He is a registered professional engineer and is a member of the Graduate Faculty of Texas A&M University. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Timo Woopen<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
CEO, Thinking Cars GmbH, Germany<\/em> After graduating from RWTH Aachen University in 2016 with an M.Sc. degree in Automotive Engineering, Timo Woopen joined the Automated Driving Department at the Institute for Automotive Engineering (ika) of RWTH Aachen University. His primary research interests include automated and connected vehicles, alongside infrastructural support. He contributed to local initiatives aimed at establishing an urban proving ground at the Aldenhoven Testing Center near Aachen.From 2018 to 2023, Timo Woopen served as the overall project manager for the UNICARagil project. UNICARagil focuses on pioneering modular architectures for agile and automated vehicle concepts, funded by the German Ministry of Research and Education with over \u20ac32 million. Since 2019, is head of the Vehicle Intelligence & Automated Driving division at ika. In 2021, he additionally assumed the role of CEO at Thinking Cars GmbH, a startup spawned from the UNICARagil project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Professor, Graduate School of Advanced Science & Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Akimasa Fujiwara is a professor at the IDEC Institute and the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering at Hiroshima University. He earned his Ph.D. in engineering from Hiroshima University and was appointed as a professor in 2002, following visiting fellow positions at the University of Tokyo and Imperial College London. President, Interuniversity Consortium for Optimization & Operations Research (ICOOR),<\/em> Mauro Dell\u2019Amico has almost a three decades academic experience in combinatorial optimization and operations research, primarily applied to mobility, logistics, transportation, supply chain management, production scheduling and planning, network planning. Mauro has participated as principal investigator in many EU and Italian funded research projects in optimization, logistics, transportation, ICT, and scheduling. He is member of the scientific board of several international conferences and journals. From 2008 to 2014 he was the director of the Interuniversity Consortium for Optimization and Operations Research, from 2015 he is the President of the consortium. Director of the Department of Sciences and Methods for Engineering at UniMoRe from 2009 to 2012. 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Head of Automated Driving, ika - RWTH Aachen University<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mobilityinnovationalliance.org\/mobiweekjapan2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Woopen-200x300.jpg\")
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Currently, Dr. Fujiwara serves as the President of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS). His research covers a wide range of topics related to traffic and transportation, including activity-based travel demand modeling, sustainable urban and regional development, curriculum development for global technological citizenship education, and the evaluation and design of innovative urban and mobility policies.
Since FY2023, he has launched the research project titled \"Development of a New Mobility-Oriented City with an Agglomeration of Places for Social Exchange\", supported by the Cabinet Office's Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Programme - Phase 3\/Development of a Smart Mobility Platform.Dr. Fujiwara has authored over 600 academic papers and has received numerous accolades, including the Best Paper Prize from EASTS in 2005.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nMauro Dell\u2019Amico<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Professor, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UniMORE), Italy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mobilityinnovationalliance.org\/mobiweekjapan2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IoNero145-223x300.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nViktoriya Kolarova<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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