Philip Koopman
Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Talk Title
Autonomous Vehicle Safety
Abstract
This talk will give an overview of autonomous vehicle safety, including: getting past the safety rhetoric, safety engineering in a nutshell, why machine learning breaks safety engineering, core ML-related problems for life-critical system safety, the approach of the ANSI/UL 4600 standard for autonomous system safety evaluation, and considerations beyond technical safety metrics.
Bio
Philip Koopman of Carnegie Mellon University is an internationally recognized expert on Autonomous Vehicle (AV) safety whose work in that area spans almost 30 years. He is has also worked extensively in more general embedded system design, software quality, and safety across numerous transportation, industrial, and defense application domains including conventional automotive software and hardware systems. He originated the UL 4600 autonomous vehicle safety standard, and received the Industry Legend award at the 2024 the Self-Driving Industry Awards.