Previous Invited Speakers
The researchers below were distinguished invited speakers at previous VEHITS conferences.
We are indebted to them for their contribution to heighten the conference level.
2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015
2024
Mobility Solutions Beyond the Autonomous Car 
Fernando García, Autonomous Mobility and Perception Lab, SAVIA Technologies, Spain Enabling Smart Cities for Sustainable and Eco-friendly Smart World Stefania Santini, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy Leveraging Connected and Automated Vehicles, Traffic Shaping, and Reinforcement Learning for Future Traffic Management Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Smart Energy Systems in a Carbon Neutral Society Henrik Lund, Aalborg University, Denmark
2023
Traffic Control Using Automated Vehicles: Distributed Sensing, Actuation, and Learning Karl Henrik Johansson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Technologies Towards Automated Vehicles Christoph Stiller, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany Smart Shipping and Logistics: Perspectives & Challenges Rudy R. Negenborn, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
2022
Challenges and Contributions in Cooperative and Automated Vehicles Henk Nijmeijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Self-driving Vehicles, Can They Be Safe in Mixed Traffic? Jonas Sjoberg, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Autonomous Vehicles: Wireless Networking for Cooperative Maneuvering Alexey Vinel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany Beyond Supervised Deep Learning for Autonomous Driving Luis M. Bergasa, University of Alcalá, Spain
2021
Driving Automated Vehicles in Complex Conditions Bart van Arem, TU Delft, Netherlands Optimization, Modeling and Assessment of Smart City Transportation Systems Hesham Ahmed Rakha, Virginia Tech, United States
2020
Autonomously Driving Trucks - Challenges and Opportunities Reinhold Behringer, Knorr Bremse GmbH, Germany Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems: Towards High-Level Automated Driving Meng Lu, Dynniq, Netherlands Last-Mile Logistics in Urban Areas Tolga Bektas, University of Liverpool Management School, United Kingdom
2019
Cooperative Automated Driving: From Platooning to Maneuvering Jeroen Ploeg, 2getthere B.V., Utrecht and Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Traffic Control Schemes for Sustainable Freeway Networks: State of the Art and Future Challenges Simona Sacone, University of Genova, Italy
2018
Enhanced Protection of Vulnerable Road Users – A Combined Discriminative and Generative Approach for Accurate Detection and Prediction of Pedestrian Intentions Miguel A. Sotelo, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain Mobility Service Integration, Mobility Platforms, and Intelligent Planning Agents Karl-Heinz Krempels, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Intelligent Transport Systems for Smart Cities - Improvement of Air Quality on Roads by Environmentally Oriented Urban Traffic ManagementUwe Plank-Wiedenbeck, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
2017
Human Factors and Intelligent Vehicle TechnologiesCristina Olaverri Monreal, University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, Austria Towards Future Mobility with Mesh Connected Vehicles João Barros, Independent Researcher, Portugal Autonomy Requirements for Smart Vehicles Emil Vassev, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre, UL, Limerick, Ireland
2016
Open Innovation Platforms for Automobiles and Mobility Solutions Venkatesh Prasad, Ford Motor Company, United States Toward Highly Intelligent AutomobilesDanil Prokhorov, Toyota Tech Center, United States
2015
Autonomy for Off-road VehiclesKarsten Berns, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany Software- and Systems Architecture for Smart Vehicles Cornel Klein, Siemens AG, Germany Cooperative Motion Planning, Navigation, and Control of Multiple Autonomous Marine Vehicles - Robots and Humans in the Loop António Pascoal, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Vision-based Perception for Intelligent Vehicles Alberto Broggi, VisLab - Universita' di Parma, Italy