Automated Vehicles Symposium 2019

Jacobo Antona-Makoshi
Automated Vehicle Safety Standardization Group Lead
Japan Automobile Research Insitute (JARI)


Jacobo holds a MSc. in Automotive Engineering and a PhD. in brain injury biomechanics from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He has extensive automotive safety related research experience at JARI, including real-world accident data collection and analysis, injury biomechanics experimental and computational research, human behavior and traffic flow simulation modeling, AD safety assurance methology development, and international strategic research development. Jacobo currently leads the Automated Vehicle Safety Standardization group at JARI, is actively contributing to develop the Japan White paper on AD safety assurance, and is one of the experts representing the country at the related ISO working group. Jacobo will join this workshop in representation of the SAKURA project; the largest ongoing AD safety assurance initiative in Japan comprising the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, and supported by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan.

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