Final Programme 2 – 5 June 2013 Dresden, Germany - ieeevtc.org

CAR Communication Consortium (vice chairman of the WG
COM) and to ITS standardization in ETSI Specialist Task
Forces. He was Co-Chair of the Track Transportation,
Vehicular Networks, and Vehicular Electronics and Telematics
of the IEEE VTC2013-Spring, and TPC Co-Chair of the IEEE
International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular
Communications (IEEE WiVEC) 2010. He holds a M.Sc.
degree and a Dr. ès sc. degree in telecommunication from the
Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Mikael Nilsson received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical
Engineering – Radio electronics at Växjö University in 1997.
From 1997 through 2003 he worked mostly as consultant
within telecom and space industry within different areas such
as simulation and design of waveguide diplexers, development
of hat-fed reflector antennas and testing satellite receivers.
In 2003 Mikael Nilsson joined Volvo Cars as RF engineer
for antennas and transceivers in the area of Remote Keyless
Entry. He was awarded the Ford Motor Company European
Technical Achievement Award in 2006 for the Personal Car
Communicator and in 2008 Mikael Nilsson was certified as a
Black Belt according to Six Sigma methodology. From 2008-
2011, he worked in the infotainment area as Attribute Leader
for Wireless Connectivity. Since 2011 Mikael Nilsson hold the
position as industrial Ph.D. student enrolled at Lund
University, department of Electrical and Information
Technology, and his principle research areas are channel
characterization of the 5.9GHz band and measurement systems,
namely the multipath propagation simulator. Also since 2012
Mikael Nilsson holds the position as Technical Expert –
Wireless Communication within Volvo Cars.
He is a member of IEEE, Car-2-Car Communication
Consortium, CHASE Assembly (VINN Excellence Centre at
Chalmers). Mikael Nilsson is dedicated to the Six Sigma
methodology and has teaching several Design for Six Sigma
and Green Belt courses within Volvo Cars.
Javier Gozalvez received an electronics engineering degree
from the Engineering School ENSEIRB (Bordeaux, France),
and a PhD in mobile communications from the University of
Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K. Since October 2002, he is with the
University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, Spain, where he is
currently an Associate Professor and Director of the
UWICORE (Ubiquitous Wireless Communications Research,
www.uwicore.umh.es) Laboratory, and Deputy Vice-President
for International Relations. At UWICORE, he is leading
research activities in the areas of wireless vehicular
communications, multi-hop cellular networks, radio resource
management, heterogeneous wireless systems, and wireless
system design and optimization. He currently serves as Mobile
Radio Senior Editor of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine,
and previously served as AE of IEEE Communication Letters.
He was General Co-Chair for the Ninth ACM International
Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking, Systems, and
Applications (ACM VANET 2012), TPC Co-Chair of the 2011
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference-Fall, TPC Co-Chair
of the 2009 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference-Spring,
and General Co-Chair of the 3rd ISWCS 2006. He is also the
founder and General Co-Chair of the IEEE International
Symposium on Wireless Vehicular communications (WiVeC)
in its 2007, 2008, and 2010 editions. He has been elected to the
Board of Governors of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
(2011–2013), and to the IEEE Distinguished Lecturers program
of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.
Dr. Marc Werner obtained the Diploma and Ph.D. (Dr.)
degrees in Communications Engineering from RWTH Aachen
University, Germany. Since 2006, he is with Qualcomm’s
R&D department in Nuremberg, Germany, where he has
worked in several public research projects towards new radio
technologies for LTE-Advanced and beyond, as well as in
different related standardization and regulatory groups. Apart
from leading the technical modem development work for the
upcoming vehicular emergency call system, eCall, he has been
involved in performance studies of wireless vehicle-to-vehicle
communication links on MAC and PHY layers, and in ETSI’s
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) standardization group.
Tuesday 04 June 2013, 15:30–17:00 (Saal 1+2)
Innovative Vehicular Applications – A European Perspective
Chair: Jorge Pereira, Principal Scientific Officer at European Commission
Panelists: João Barros, Asscociate Professor at University of Porto, Portugal
Manuel Serrano Matoses, Head of New Technologies at ETRA I+D, Spain
Stefan Viehmann, Senior VP Global Customer Solutions at Kuehne + Nagel Management
AG, Germany
Pedro José Marrón, Professor at University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
The scope of Vehicular Applications is as broad as the VT Society itself, and even in the most traditional
domains innovative applications are being developed, and more importantly, deployed in large-scale in the
real-world. The Panel will provide a European perspective of the area, including some less conventional
applications which rely on truly inter-disciplinary approaches.
Dr. Jorge M. Pereira obtained the Engineering and M.Sc.
degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto
Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal in 1983 and 1987,
respectively; he received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering-
Systems from the University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, in 1993.
Between 1983 and 1988, he taught in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering of IST as Full Lecturer in
the areas of Eletrotechnics and Electrical Measurements,
Applied Electronics and Telecommunication Systems, and in
1994 became Assistant Professor. He is on leave of absence
from IST.
From 1988 to 1990, he worked at LinCom Corp., Los
Angeles, in a NASA project on space-to-space
communications, and on synchronization issues. From 1991 to
1993, he worked for Caltrans (California Department of
Transportation) and PATH (Partners for Advanced
Transportation TecHnology) on Intelligent Vehicle Highway
Systems (IVHS). From 1993 to 1996, at GTE Laboratories
Inc., Waltham, MA, he was responsible for Communication
Analysis and Simulation in the National IVHS Architecture
Federal Highway Administration contract, and represented
GTE at the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)
IVHS Section, and in the High Speed Data Systems workgroup
of the CDMA Development Group. At the same time, he was
involved in the first wireless data (CDPD) trials in the San
Francisco Bay Area, involving location-based applications.
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