Armağan Gül
Kamil Armağan Gül has been working as Innovation Developer at Oyak Renault Turkey in Vehicle Engineering Departemen. He has 10-year experience in product development, engineering materials, material characterization, mechanical behavior and Computer Aided Engineering. Also, He is a PhD student at metallurgy and material engineering department of Istanbul Technical University. He is an inventor for over 10 patents on automotive technology. He is technical responsible for below projects:
- Graphene Doped Injection Grade PP Compound Development” with cooperation of Renault -Farplas – Nanografen – Ravago
- CFMTech - Coreback Chemical Foaming Technology Project with Renault-Repsol – Nanografen- Farplas – AITIIP – KAREL
- “PP based lightweight compound development via microtalk fill” which was funded by Oyak Renault and Turkey Government.
- “Development of Long Natural Fiber PP composite filled and Application on Automotive Interior Trim Parts” which is funded by Oyak Renault and Turkey Government.
Assoc. Prof. Burcu Saner Okan
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burcu Saner Okan received my BS degree in Chemistry at Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey in 2005. Dr. Saner Okan received MS degree in 2007 and PhD degree in 2011 in Materials Science and Engineering programme at Sabanci University. Now she works as a research and application-oriented faculty member at Sabanci University Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Research and Application Center since 2017. Dr. Saner Okan is also co-founder of NANOGRAFEN Nano Technological Products Company. Nanografen produces large volume of graphene nanoplatelets from waste tire by recycling and upcycling technology by decreasing manufacturing costs. Dr. Saner Okan develops cost-effective and lightweight automotive composites parts reinforced by waste tire-derived Graphene NanoPlatelet with part producers and leading OEM partners. Dr. Saner Okan has an expertise in graphene, polymer nanocomposites, compounding, surface chemistry and electrospinning. She has 36 articles published in international journals, 6 book chapters, 2 patents and more than 50 conference papers in these fields.
Uzi Baruch
Uzi brings nearly twenty years of experience in managing R&D teams and high scale projects at leading, global hi-tech companies. Prior to joining proteanTecs, he held executive roles at Optimal+, first as VP of R&D, where he had been instrumental in driving the company’s big data offering, enabling customers to innovate manufacturing through a data-centric approach. Beginning of 2019, Uzi assumed the lead of Optimal’s new growth business, and led the sales and delivery groups of Optimal+ Automotive and Electronics business unit until the acquisition of the company by National Instruments. Before joining Optimal+, Uzi served as VP of R&D in the Enterprise Group at NICE.
Tim Kogel
Tim Kogel is a Principal Engineer for Virtual Prototyping in the Synopsys Verification Group. He received his diploma and PhD degree in electrical engineering with honors from Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), Aachen, Germany, in 1999 and 2005. He has authored a book and numerous technical and scientific publications on system-level modeling of SoC platforms. Tim is leading a team of applications engineering specialists, responsible for the definition, realization and deployment of Synopsys’ Virtual Prototyping solutions.
Reiner Pope
Gajinder Panesar
Gajinder ‘Gadge’ Panesar is a Fellow at Siemens. He was CTO at UltraSoC and joined Siemens via acquisition in 2020. One of Europe’s leading SoC architects, Gadge’s experience includes senior architecture definition and design roles within both blue-chip and start-up environments. He holds more than 20 patents and is the author of more than 20 published works. Prior to joining UltraSoC, he served at NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA). As Chief Architect at Picochip he created the architecture of the company’s market-defining small-cell SoCs, and continued in this capacity after the company’s acquisition by Mindspeed Inc (NASDAQ:MSPD). His previous experience includes roles at STMicroelectronics, INMOS, and Acorn Computers. He is a former Research Fellow at the UK’s Southampton University, and a former Visiting Fellow at the University of Amsterdam.
Anil Goteti
Nir Peled
Dr. Axel Schröpfer
Axel Schroepfer is a principal researcher in the security research team of SAP. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. He is interested in security and privacy enhancing technologies and their application to business software, aiming to solve customers' privacy problems and to enable novel ways of privacy-preserving business collaborations.