Artificial Intelligence for Digitising Industry ? Applications

Dr. Ovidiu Vermesan holds a PhD degree in microelectronics and a Master of International Business (MIB) degree. He is Chief Scientist at SINTEF Digital, Oslo, Norway. His research interests are in the area of smart systems integration, mixed-signal embedded electronics, analogue neural networks, artificial intelligence and cognitive communication systems. Dr. Vermesan received SINTEF's 2003 award for research excellence for his work on the implementation of a biometric sensor system. He is currently working on projects addressing nanoelectronics, integrated sensor/actuator systems, communication, cyber-physical systems (CPSs) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), with applications in green mobility, energy, autonomous systems, and smart cities. He has authored or co-authored over 85 technical articles and conference papers. He is actively involved in the activities of the Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership Joint Undertaking (ECSEL JU) and involved in technical activities to define the priorities for the new European partnership for Key Digital Technologies (KDT). He has coordinated and managed various national, EU and other international projects related to smart sensor systems, integrated electronics, electromobility and intelligent autonomous systems such as E3Car, POLLUX, CASTOR, IoE, MIRANDELA, IoF2020, AUTOPILOT, AutoDrive, ArchitectECA2030, AI4DI, AI4CSM. Dr. Vermesan actively participates in national, H2020 EU and other international initiatives by coordinating and managing various projects. He is the coordinator of the IoT European Research Cluster (IERC) and a member of the board of the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI). He is currently the technical co-coordinator of the Artificial Intelligence for Digitising Industry (AI4DI) project.


Reiner JOHN received his degree in Electrical Engineering from the Fachhochschule des Saarlandes (Germany) in collaboration with the University of Metz / Perpignan (France). In 1984 he started his career with the Siemens Semiconductor Group in Munich, where he worked in automatic test system development. In 1989 he was responsible for the consultation and application of embedded control development tools in the Siemens Automation Group. After joining Siemens Corporate Research and Development in 1991, Reiner John researched knowledge-based embedded systems within the Fuzzy group. Moving to Regensburg to work for the Siemens Automotive Division three years later, he developed concepts and implementations for a real-time operating system to manage and control the engine and transmission system. In 1996 joined Siemens Semiconductors, the later IPO of Infineon Technologies, where he served in several management positions in the Quality and Production Department of the company. In 2000, he further pursued his career in Taiwan, where he set up and managed the Infineon Silicon Foundry Taiwan Office as the Head of Department for seven years. At present, Reiner John is working in AVL List GmbH, Austria, where he oversees the coordination of public-funded R&D projects in the area of trustable AI for industrial and electromobility applications.


Dr. Cristina De Luca received the Laurea degree in statistical and economic science from, University of Padova (Italy) and the PhD degree in mathematics from, University of Klagenfurt (Austria), 2003. She joined Infineon Technologies Austria AG in 2002. She has worked on a wide range of R2R control applications for lithography, CMP and CVD semiconductor production processes and rollout in Regensburg (Germany), Kulim (Malaysia) and Villach (Austria) and contributed to research on R2R for the epitaxy process. Her research interests included advanced process control, automation and statistical data analysis, production automation, predictive maintenance, virtual metrology and industry4.0 automation, model predictive control for semiconductor manufacturing. She was an external professor for statistical quality control at the "Fachhochschule Kaernten" for 2004-2008 in cooperation with Infineon Technologies Austria AG. She is certified in Project Management since 2008. In 2009, she became project manager for European projects, first ENIAC and then ECSEL JU. She followed projects at different levels and contributed to their preparation, implementation, and coordination. To cite some of the projects: IMPROVE, EPPL, EPT300, SemI40, PRODUCTIVE4.0, Arrowhead Tools, AI4CSM. She is currently the coordinator of the ArchitectECA2030 project (Automotive) and AI4DI project (artificial intelligence). In 2019 she joined Infineon Technologies AG, Munich (Germany), where she is Senior Manager Funding Projects and Coordination.





Marcello Coppola is technical Director at STMicroelectronics. He has more than 25 years of industry experience with an extended network within the research community and major funding agencies with the primary focus on the development of break-through technologies. He is a technology innovator, with the ability to accurately predict technology trends. He is involved in many European research projects targeting Industrial IoT and IoT, cyber physical systems, Smart Agriculture, AI, Low power, Security, 5G, and design technologies for Multicore and Many-core System-on-Chip, with particular emphasis to architecture and network-on-chip. He has published more than 50 scientific publications, holds over 26 issued patents. He authored chapters in 12 edited print books, and he is one of the main authors of "Design of Cost-Efficient Interconnect Processing Units: Spidergon STNoC" book. Until 2018, he was part of IEEE Computing Now Journal Technical editorial board. He contributed to the security chapter of the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) to set the scene on R&I on Embedded Intelligent Systems in Europe. He is serving under different roles numerous top international conferences and workshops. Graduated in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, Italy in 1992.