Javier Ibanez-Guzman (Life Member, IEEE) received his M.S.E.E. from the University of Pennsylvania as a Fulbright Scholar, and his Ph.D. from the University of Reading under a UK SERC Fellowship. In 2011, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently Corporate Expert in Autonomous Systems at Renault S.A., and Co-Director of the SIVALab Common Laboratory, a collaboration between CNRS, UTC Compiègne, and Renault focused on intelligent vehicle technologies.
Dr. Ibanez-Guzman serves as an expert for the EU and Eureka research programmes. He previously held the position of Senior Scientist at SimTech, A*STAR Research Institute in Singapore, where he led research on autonomous ground vehicles.
He led the deployment of Renault’s first electric autonomous vehicles, and currently serves as Senior Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles and Area Editor for the IEEE/RSJ IROS conferences. He also represents Renault in ISO standardization groups on Vehicle Safety and Artificial Intelligence, and is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK.
