Subcommittee on  Automotive Electronic and Embedded Systems Chair: Francoise Simonot-Lion, LORIA, France Scope: X-by-Wire, Architecture description language,  Performance evaluation and timing analysis, Dependability, Fault-tolerant services, Safety, Networks: TTP/C, FlexRay, TTCAN, CAN, VAN, J1850 , LIN, MOST, IDB-1394; Operating systems.

Françoise Simonot-Lion  is a Professor in Computer Science at INPL (Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine) – Nancy,France. Since 2004, responsible of the “Safe Design for Embedded and Ambient Systems”,  a course at Ecole des Mines de Nancy - INPL. Her main research topics include: modeling and verification techniques for the design of optimized real time distributed applications under safety constraints; specification of embedded services ensuring a real time Quality of Service (scheduling of tasks and messages, real time middleware, frame packing). Since 1997, she has been the scientific team leader of TRIO, an INRIA research project-team (Real Time and InterOperability), in LORIA (Lorraine Laboratory of IT Research and its Applications). Since 2002, responsible of the national working group “Real Time Systems and Quality of Service” supported by CNRS. Dr Simonot_lion is also the head of CARAMELS Research team associated with PSA Peugeot Citroën (2001-2004). Contact email address: f.simonot@iestcfa.org

Stephen T. (“Steve”) Hung has been an IEEE member since 1981.  He received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Tennessee in 1983 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois in 1985 and 1989, respectively.

During his graduate study years, Dr. Hung interned with General Electric, where he worked on self-tuning power system stabilizers; and he worked with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers on welding process automation.  After graduate study, from 1988 to 1992, he served as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Auburn University, and worked with the U. S. Navy’s Naval Undersea Warfare Center on electric propulsion technology.  From September 1992 to September 2007, Dr. Hung worked for Ford Motor Company and Visteon Corporation in various advanced product technology development efforts.  In his industrial automotive career, he worked on vehicles ranging from Formula 1 racecars to passenger sedans and light-duty trucks; on vehicle systems ranging from powertrains and chassis to climate and interiors; on technologies from electric and electronic to hydraulic and mechanical; and in roles involving design, testing, manufacturing, and technology development strategy.  In October 2007, Dr. Hung became a faculty member of Clemson University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, in Clemson, SC, and the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR), in Greenville, SC, where his research interests revolve around automotive transportation and energy systems. 

Dr. Hung is a member of the Industrial Electronics Society, SAE, and ASME.

Contact email address: s.hung@iestcfa.org