EU H2020 MSCA-ETN SAS kicked off in Bruges on July 2-3, 2019. On July 2nd, the day started with a detailed introduction regarding the practical arrangements on the SAS Project Management followed by the Early Stage Researchers’ (ESRs’) pitch presentations on their background, project and host institute.Three parallel sessions regarding the three scientific work packages were held in the afternoon ...

Orian DHEU is an Early Stage Researcher for the MSCA ETN-SAS Project. He will carry out his research on the legal and liability issues related to the development and deployment of autonomous transportation systems. His research will be conducted at the Center for IT & IP law (CiTiP) of KU Leuven’s Faculty of Law. Orian studied his bachelor’s degree at ...

Haris Aftab is an Early Stage Researcher for the MSCA ETN-SAS Project. He will be carrying out research in the safety assurance of patients using AI-based chatbot applications in the area of healthcare. The research will be conducted at the University of York and in collaboration with KU Leuven, LAAS-CNRS, and Portable Medical Technology. Haris has recently completed his master’s ...

Hasan Bin Firoz is an Early-Stage Researcher in the MSCA-ETN SAS Project. He is currently employed at Institute of Safe Autonomy in University of York (United Kingdom). His current research interests include Control engineering, Machine Learning, autonomous systems. Hasan received his M.Eng. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2020. During his Masters study, he ...

Fang Yan is an Early Stage Researcher for the MSCA ETN-SAS Project. She will carry out research in making the transition from static assurance cases during design-time to executable assurance cases during run-time. This research will be conducted at the University of York. Fang has her bachelor’s degree in Electronic and Information Engineering at the Civil Aviation University of China ...

Hassan Tirmizi completed his Bachelor’s in Electrical engineering from Pakistan in 2015 specializing in Electrical Power Systems and Renewable energy. He subsequently joined the joint EU funded Masters program in Sustainable Transportation of Energy and Electrical Power Systems (EMMC STEPS) as an Erasmus Mundus Scholar and spent a semester each at the University of Nottingham(UK), University of Oviedo(Spain), and the ...

Ahmad Adee is an Early Stage Researcher for the MSCA ETN-SAS Project. His objectives are to explore propagation paths of functional insufficiencies in software intensive systems using Model-Based System Analysis (MBSA) techniques, with the inclusion of probabilistic analysis. The research activity will be conducted at Robert Bosch Campus, Renningen. Ahmad has studied Mechatronics Engineering from the National University of Science ...

Nawshin Mannan Proma is an Early-Stage Researcher in the MSCA-ETN SAS project. She is working as ESR 7 at University of York in United Kingdom. Her main research interests lie in safety and integrity of autonomous vehicle in urban scenario. She did her masters majoring in Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. In Bangladesh, ...

Luca Vittorio Sartori is an Early Stage Researcher at the LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse for the MSCA ETN-SAS Project. He is interested in how to generate virtual worlds to maximize the coverage of critical test cases in simulation and how to improve the software testing of autonomous robots. After obtaining his B.Sc. in Padua, he moved to Politecnico di Milano for ...

Aleksandr Ovechkin is an Early Stage Researcher in the MSCA-ETN SAS Project. He is pursuing a PhD in the Electrical Engineering Department at KU Leuven, Campus Brugge (Belgium). His main research interest lies in dependable wireless connections capable of working under fault conditions in harsh electromagnetic environments. In 2018, Aleksandr graduated from the National Research University, Moscow Power Engineering Institute, ...