Carol Flannagan
Research Professor and Director of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute’s data group
Dr. Carol Flannagan is a Research Professor and Director of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute’s data group. She has graduate degrees in Statistics and Mathematical Psychology. Dr. Flannagan’s work in transportation research encompasses analysis of a wide variety of transportation-related data, and she has developed innovative approaches to data and information integration to investigate all kinds of topics in transportation. When she is not thinking about Bayesian methods or causal inference, she loves to travel (especially to Sweden), be in motion outdoors, and hang out with her family and her dog.
Mike Lenné
Chief Science & Innovation Officer, Seeing Machines and Adjunct Professor at Monash University
Mike is a global authority on human factors and safety. Following an esteemed academic career as a Professor in Human Factors at the Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC), he moved to Seeing Machines in 2014 and has held Executive roles leading both technology and commercial businesses.
Currently as Chief Science & Innovation Officer he leads Seeing Machines human factors, machine intelligence and advanced engineering teams that research, design and develop our next generation technologies. Working with government, industry and global policy groups he promotes operator state monitoring technology, making the world’s roads and skies safer. He remains an Adjunct Professor at MUARC, and holds a Global Executive MBA and a PhD in Human Factors Psychology.
In Mike´s key note speech he will discuss that occupant status monitoring affords a new world of human-vehicle collaboration, one that supports many safety cases and enhanced user experience. Do we now have the recipe for more success? The key ingredients needed to develop and implement this key safety system are discussed.