SAE International Journal of Connected and Automated Vehicles

Prof. Dr. Daniel Watzenig, Graz University of Technology and Virtual Vehicle Research Center, Austria
Daniel Watzenig was born in Austria. He holds a doctorate in electrical engineering and was awarded the venia docendi (adjunct professorship) for electrical measurement science and signal processing from Graz University of Technology, Austria. He is CTO and Head of the Electronics Systems and Software Department at Virtual Vehicle Research Graz. In addition, he was appointed as a Full Professor of Multi-Sensor Perception of Autonomous Systems at the Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision, Faculty of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Austria.

His research interests focus on sense and control of autonomous vehicles, sensor fusion, reinforcement learning and decision making under uncertainty. He is the author or co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, patents, and articles. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the SAE Int. Journal on Connected and Automated Vehicles (SAE JCAV). Since 2019 he is an invited guest lecturer at Stanford University, USA, teaching multi-sensor perception for autonomous systems (Principles of Robot Autonomy). He is the founder of the Autonomous Racing Graz Team. Since 2024 he is Vice Chair and Member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Austria Section. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in the field of autonomous vehicles, Board Member of the INSIDE Industry Association (European Initiative on Intelligent Digital Systems) and Member of the Academic Advisory Council of PAVE (global Partners for Automated Vehicle Education). He has been a consultant and appointed expert for military robotics for the Armaments and Defense Technology Agency of the Austrian Armed Forces since 2019.

Terry Fruehling, LionThorn, LLC, USA
Terry Fruehling, Editor-in-Chief of the SAE International Journal of Connected and Automated Vehicles, has had a 45-year engineering career that includes technical leadership positions for mission critical systems in Medical, Automotive, and Communications companies. In addition to his contributions to the journal, Terry is an active member of several SAE standard generation groups.

In the automotive industry alone, he has contributed to crucial systems like ABS electronic controllers, Lock-step microcontroller systems, pressure transducers, and speed/position sensors for GM, Ford, Chrysler, and Harley Davidson Vehicles. In the medical industry, he helped develop heart-lung machines, kidney dialysis pumps, Cardioplegia machines and air bubble detectors. In the banking industry, he launched secured rack modems.

He holds 10 functional safety patents which are relevant to: the diagnostic monitoring and safety mechanism capabilities of embedded microcontrollers, such as the lock-step CPU with functional compare (including real-time BIST), data stream monitor, on chip instrumentation, and a Network On Chip (NOC) - integrated network performance analyzer.

He is a lecturer and system safety consultant serving numerous companies to assess safety architectures and develop safety-related process methodologies. His work also included SBIR efforts with Honeywell aerospace to develop improved prognostic/diagnostic tools for fault-tolerant data busses.

Currently, he is the co-owner and Functional Safety Engineering Consultant for LionThorn, LLC.