Keynote Speakers

Jim Tung

MathWorks Fellow
Jim Tung has more than 25 years' experience in the technical computing software markets. He is a 20-year veteran of MathWorks, holding the positions of vice president of marketing and vice president of business development before assuming his current role focusing on business and technology strategy and analysis. Jim previously held marketing and sales management positions at Lotus Development and Keithley DAS, a pioneering manufacturer of PC-based data acquisition systems. Jim holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard University.

Dr. Aravind S. Bharadwaj

CEO, Automotive Infotronics
Dr. Bharadwaj serves as CEO of Automotive Infotronics, a joint venture between Ashok Leyland and Continental AG. He has more than 22 years of rich and varied experience in the automotive field in product development/R&D, including positions with Ashok Leyland and TVS Motor Company, India; Delphi Technical Center, Singapore; and GM Powertrain and GM R&D Center, MI, USA. In these assignments, he worked on electric and hybrid electric vehicles, transmission and engine control systems, and two-wheeler and commercial vehicle electronics.

Dr. Bharadwaj is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt. He is currently the chairman of the SIAM Task Force on Automotive Infotronics. He is a founding member of the Core Group on Automotive R&D and played a significant role in the project to deploy telematics technology for Public Bus Transit Systems at Chennai. He is the chairman, RMC of the TIFAC Core on Automotive Infotronics at Vellore Institute of Technology. He is a senior member of IEEE and the past chairman of SAEINDIA Southern Section, which won the best section award during his tenure. He is a director in the board of SAE International for the period 2008-2010 and actively involved in the organization of the APAC 16 conference at Chennai in 2011.

Dr. Bharadwaj has a B.E. (Hons.) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Madurai Kamaraj University, M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA and MBA (Distinction) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

Customer Speakers

Yogananda Jeppu

Moog India
Yogananda Jeppu has been working in the field of control system design, implementation, and verification and validation for aircraft and missiles for the past 22 years. He has several publications on randomized testing, orthogonal array testing, and missile guidance and control. He has a U.S. patent for Software License Independent Image Generation. He has been using MATLAB and Simulink since 1988 for control design, optimization, testing, and simulation. He is a member of Institution of Engineers, Aeronautical Society of India, Astronautical Society of India, and Society for Aerospace Quality and Reliability. He is a recipient of many awards, including the Commendation Certificate for Significant Contributions Made to the Integrated Guided Missiles Programme and the National Aerospace Laboratories Technology Shield for Outstanding Achievement in LCA Control Law Design, Certification, and Successful Flight Tests. He has a B.E. from Mangalore University and a postgraduate degree in missile controls and guidance from Pune University. He is pursuing his Ph.D. at IIT Bombay in the field of software reliability and using design of experiments for model-based certification.

Bjoern Noack

Bosch Limited
Bjoern Noack heads up the advanced engineering for diesel powertrain within Bosch Limited. He  joined Bosch Limited in 2009 to establish a local pre-development of the Bosch Group in India. Prior to this, he worked for Robert Bosch GmbH in the development of future platforms of fuel injection equipment, as project leader for endurance race systems at 24 Hours of Le Mans, in diesel hybrid activities, and as a project leader for common rail customer projects. He completed his Diplom-Ingenieur in mechanical engineering.

Nagendra Raykar

Bosch Limited
Nagendra Raykar joined the Advanced Engineering Technology team at Bosch Limited in 2009 and takes care of control function development activities for new systems for diesel powertrain. He originally joined the company in 2005 as a development engineer in distributor type fuel injection pump development. He completed his B.E.Eng. in automobile engineering.