Review of the USDOT Report on Connected Vehicle Initiative Communications Systems Deployment (2015)

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18 Enclosure B Committee Biographical Information Dennis F. Wilkie, NAE, retired as Corporate Vice President and Chief of Staff for the Integrated Electronic Systems Sector at Motorola, Inc., in 2002. He joined Motorola, Inc., in 1996 after retiring from the Ford Motor Company. During the years at Motorola he was involved in automotive electronic systems, energy systems, and embedded electronic control systems management. He retired from the Ford Motor Company in 1996 as Corporate Vice President for Business Development. He worked at Ford for 28 years, and his work involved the application of control theory and systems engineering to automobiles and the field of transportation. He worked on automotive electronic systems issues as well as infrastructure issues, such as automated highways, automated transportation systems, and ITS. In recent years, he has focused on the utilization of electronics and wireless technology to bring new levels of convenience, safety, and information to the vehicle. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000 and is a Fellow of SAE. He holds a BS and an MS in electrical engineering from Wayne State University, a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, and an MS in management (Sloan Fellow) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. David E. Borth, NAE, has been serving as an independent consultant in the areas of wireless technology, advanced signal processing, and spectrum engineering since retiring from Motorola in 2010. He also served as a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2012 to 2014. From 1980 to 2012 Dr. Borth was with Motorola in Schaumburg, Illinois, where he held a number of positions ranging from member of the technical staff to Corporate Vice President of all wireless research in the company to Chief Technology Officer of the Government and Public Safety Business Unit. While at Motorola Dr. Borth made significant contributions to numerous wireless technologies, including Motorola’s implementations of the GSM, TDMA, and CDMA digital cellular systems as well as leading wireless research work focusing on the development of key technologies for broadband wireless systems, including 802.16e/WiMAX, LTE, and 4G systems. He also worked on a variety of emerging wireless technologies, including software-defined radio and cognitive radio. Dr. Borth served as a member of the FCC’s Technological Advisory Council (TAC) and of the U.S. Department of Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (CSMAC) for seven years. He has been issued 31 patents and has authored or co-authored chapters of five books in addition to 25 publications. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a licensed professional engineer in the State of Illinois. Previously, he was a member of the technical staff of the systems division of Watkins–Johnson Company and an assistant professor in the School of Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Borth was a member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) from 2000 to 2003. He also served on the CSTB committee that produced the report Information Technology for Counterterrorism: Immediate Action and Future Possibilities. He received his BS, MS, and PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Socorro (Coco) Briseno started her career at the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) in 1990 and is currently Chief of the Division of Research, Innovation, and System Information. This position includes responsibility for the Caltrans research program as well as

19 management of the transportation information required to support the state’s public road system decision-making needs. During her time with Caltrans, Ms. Briseno has served in many capacities. She has been Chief of Staff and has worked at the City of West Sacramento, the California Transportation Commission, and the Divisions of Traffic Operations and Planning. Previous positions at Caltrans include Associate Transportation Planner, Rail Transportation Associate, Senior Transportation Planner, and Supervising Transportation Planner. She graduated with a BA in organizational leadership from Chapman University in 2000. Collin L. Castle, a professional engineer, has worked in the Michigan Department of Transportation (DOT) ITS Program Office for the past 8 years. He serves as the Connected Vehicle Technical Manager with the Michigan DOT, focusing on initiatives related to connected vehicle infrastructure design and deployment and connected vehicle data use for agency applications. This includes analysis of the impacts of connected vehicle infrastructure and applications on safety, mobility, and the environment. He is managing a number of Michigan DOT initiatives, including the Truck Parking Information and Management System (TPIMS), the Connected Vehicle Data Use Analysis and Processing Project, the Vehicle Based Information Data Acquisition System, Cost and Benefit Analysis of Michigan DOT ITS Deployments, and the Weather Responsive Traveler Information System. During his first 5 years at Michigan DOT, he was involved in statewide regional ITS architecture development and conformance, ITS specifications and design standards, construction plan review and approval, ITS laboratory testing, and project development. In a number of these initiatives he served in a project management role, including the Michigan DOT North and Superior Region Road Weather Information System Design–Build project, Statewide Real-Time Probe Data, and Statewide ITS Program Office support contracts. He assists with coordination of research efforts related to automated vehicles and their impact on a road operating agency. This includes support of research and testing efforts by multiple universities, consultants, and industry on the needs of automated vehicles from a traditional transportation infrastructure and technology perspective. He has served in a stakeholder advisory capacity on a number of initiatives and research activities. Among them are the Federal Highway Administration Weather Data Environment, Guidelines for Evaluating the Accuracy of Travel Time and Speed Data—Pooled Fund Study [TPF-5(200)], and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Connected Vehicle Footprint Analysis. He was involved in planning efforts for the 2014 ITS World Congress held in Detroit, Michigan, including the Traffic Management Center of the Future and the Belle Isle Technology Demonstrations. Mr. Castle is a graduate of Michigan State University with a BS in civil engineering with a focus on transportation and is a registered professional engineer in the state of Michigan. He is a recipient of the 2014 ITS World Congress—Best Paper Award (Americas) for the I-94 TPIMS project, and the State of Michigan 2014 Good Government Symbol of Excellence and Leadership Coin for leadership in developing innovations in the field of ITS and connected vehicle research. He was a nominee for the 2013 AASHTO Transportation Vanguard Award. Joseph D. Hersey, Jr., has a consultancy, JoeCel Engineering and Consulting, LLC, that provides contract engineering support work in telecommunications and navigation standards development and review, radio-frequency spectrum management, and spectrum studies. He is a professional engineer with a focus in radio spectrum and maritime telecommunications, and he serves as Secretary for the U.S. National Committee Technical Advisory Group to International

20 Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Technical Committee 80, Maritime Radiocommunications and Navigation Equipment. Mr. Hersey served in the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) from 1975 through 2013 in positions of increasing responsibility. He was chief of the Spectrum Management and Telecommunications Policy Division of USCG, USCG representative to NTIA’s spectrum broadband reallocation Policy and Plans Steering Group, agency vice chairman of NTIA’s Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee (which assists the Assistant Secretary in assigning frequencies to U.S. government radio stations and in developing and executing policies), and member of the international technical team that developed the shipborne automatic identification system in widespread use and documented in International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and IEC technical standards. He managed a cutter radar installation team; specified and procured small boat radar; developed and coordinated numerous technical input papers to and represented the United States on International Maritime Organization (IMO) communications subcommittees, ITU Study Groups, and World Radio Conferences; developed and implemented the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System through IMO and ITU and within the United States and developed its initial modernization; authored radar propagation studies; and developed dGPS transmitter frequency selection software based on ground-wave propagation prediction and receiver frequency dependent rejection. He had previously provided USDOT with input on spectrum operations. Mr. Hersey earned an MS and a BS in engineering from Brown University. John B. Kenney, principal researcher at the Toyota InfoTechnology Center USA, is the lead for the vehicle communication research group. He has recently participated in the V2V- Interoperability (2010–present), V2V-Communication Security (2010–2012), and VSC- Applications (2007–2009) projects, and he represents Toyota in organizations responsible for specifying DSRC standards, including the IEEE 802.11 Working Group (WG), the IEEE 1609 WG, the SAE DSRC Technical Committee (TC), and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) TC ITS. He also serves as a liaison between the IEEE 1609 WG and the VSC consortium. He has served as Secretary of the SAE DSRC TC since 2010 and serves on the ETSI TC ITS Specialist Task Force on Cross-Layer Decentralized Congestion Control (STF469, August 2013–August 2015). On behalf of the VSC consortium, he drafted an analysis of the relevance of the IEEE standards (802.11p and 1609.x) for USDOT’s consideration in assessing a potential V2V rulemaking. Dr. Kenney has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communication Technology (November 2013), and he has provided spectrum sharing briefings to members of Congress and their staffs, the staffs of the FCC commissioners, the FCC Office of Engineering Technology, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He has made several presentations in the IEEE 802.11 DSRC Co-Existence Tiger Team, received a Best Paper Award at the 2013 IEEE International Wireless Vehicle Communication Symposium; and cochaired the IEEE SmartVehicles 2014 workshop and the ACM Vehicular Inter-Networking workshops in 2011 and 2012. His research interests include channel congestion control, spectrum sharing, and wireless communication performance. He earned a PhD and a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame and an MS in electrical engineering from Stanford University. Asad M. Madni, NAE, served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Technology Officer of BEI Technologies Inc., headquartered in Sylmar, California, from 1992 until his

21 retirement in 2006. He led the development and commercialization of intelligent microsensors and systems for aerospace, military, commercial, and transportation industries, including the Extremely Slow Motion Servo Control System for the Hubble Space Telescope’s Star Selector System and the revolutionary Quartz MEMS GyroChip technology, which is used worldwide for electronic stability control and rollover protection in passenger vehicles. Before joining BEI he was with Systron Donner Corporation (a Thorn EMI Company) for 18 years in senior technical and executive positions, eventually as Chairman, President, and CEO. There, he made seminal contributions in the development of radio-frequency and microwave systems and instrumentation, which significantly enhanced the combat readiness of the U.S. Navy (and its allies) and which provided the Department of Defense with the ability (not possible with prior art) to simulate more threat-representative electronic countermeasures environments for current and future advanced warfare training. Dr. Madni is currently an independent consultant; Distinguished Adjunct Professor and Distinguished Scientist of Electrical Engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA); and Executive Managing Director and Chief Technical Officer of Crocker Capital, a San Francisco–based private venture firm specializing in emerging technologies. He is an internationally recognized authority with more than 40 years of experience in the design and commercialization of “intelligent” sensors, systems, and instrumentation and signal processing. He also serves as Distinguished Professor at Technical Career Institutes (TCI) College of Technology (the first such appointment in the history of the institute since its founding in 1909 by Nobel Laureate Guglielmo Marconi); as Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at Ryerson University; on advisory boards at UCLA, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at San Antonio, California State University at Northridge, TCI, IEEE Systems Journal, and AutoSoft Journal; and as Honorary Editor of the International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems. Dr. Madni is the recipient of numerous national and international awards and honors, including the 2014 Tau Beta Pi Distinguished Alumnus Award, the World Automation Congress 2014 (inaugural) Medal of Honor, the UCLA Electrical Engineering 2013 (inaugural) Distinguished Alumni Award, the 2013 UCLA Electrical Engineering Distinguished Service Award, the 2012 IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society’s Pioneer Award, the 2010 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society’s Career Excellence Award, the 2010 UCLA Engineering Lifetime Contribution Award, TCI College of Technology’s Marconi Medal (the institute’s highest honor) and Citation of Honor, the 2008 IEEE Region 6 Outstanding Engineer Award, the 2008 IEEE Region 6 South Outstanding Engineer and Outstanding Leadership and Professional Service Awards, the 2008 UCLA Engineering Distinguished Service Award, the 2006 World Automation Congress Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2005 IEE Achievement Medal, the 2004 UCLA Engineering Alumnus of the Year Award (highest honor granted by the school), the 2004 Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award from the Engineers’ Council, the 2003 George Washington Engineer of the Year Award from the Los Angeles Council of Engineers and Scientists, the 2002 UCLA Professional Achievement Award Medal, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the Joseph F. Engelberger Best Paper Award at the 2000 World Automation Congress, the California Coast University (CCU) Distinguished Alumni Award (highest honor granted by the university), and the Association of Old Crows Gold Certificate of Merit. He is listed in all major Who’s Who publications, including Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Who’s Who in Technology, Who’s Who in Finance and Industry, the International Who’s Who of Intellectuals, 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Outstanding People of the 21st Century, and Asian Men and Women of Achievement.

22 He has been a featured guest on numerous television shows, including CNN with Casey Wyan and BizNews 1 (now CNBC) with Mike Russell. He is a Chartered Engineer, Honorary Professor at the Technical University of Crete and University of Waikato New Zealand, Life Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (United Kingdom), Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (United Kingdom), Fellow of the Institute for the Advancement of Engineering, Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of SAE, Lifetime Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Life Fellow of the International Biographical Association. He is an Eminent Engineer of Tau Beta Pi, the National Engineering Honor Society; Honorary Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines; Member of Eta Kappa Nu, the Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society; Member of Tau Alpha Pi, the National Engineering Technology Honor Society; Honorary Member of Phi Kappa Phi, the Interdisciplinary Honor Society; Honorary Member of Golden Key, the International Honor Society; Member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society; Member of Delta Epsilon Tau, the International Honor Society; Life Member of the Association of Old Crows; Member of the Internet Society; and Member of the Order of the Engineer. He received an AAS from RCA Institutes, a BS and an MS from UCLA, a PhD from CCU, a DSc (honoris causa) from Ryerson University, a DEng (honoris causa) from Technical University of Crete, and an ScD (honoris causa) from California State University and California State University, Northridge. He is a graduate of the Engineering Management Program at the California Institute of Technology, the Executive Institute at Stanford University, and the Program for Senior Executives at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. John T. Moring, a consultant, is a systems engineer with extensive experience in developing advanced communications systems, from integrated circuits to international networks. Since 2004 Moring has contributed to the IEEE 1609 standards for DSRC/Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments. For the past 6 years he has served as Cochair of the Working Group and editor of the primary networking and architecture standards (e.g., IEEE Standards 1609.3, 1609.0). In the late 1990s when he founded his consultancy, one of his first projects was to support the new FCC mandate to locate cellular 9-1-1 callers. He designed and ran some of the first field tests of this new feature for major cellular carriers. He was a consultant for the Bluetooth organization for 8 years in the area of certification, as the technology moved from 0 percent penetration to a “must-have” in cellular phones. His clients have included wireless equipment manufacturers and service providers, government entities, universities, think tanks, law firms, and garage-shop startups. Before beginning his consultancy in 1997, he worked for Pacific Communication Sciences, the company that developed the first commercial Internet phone, and he contributed to the associated base station design and development. In the early 1990s he contributed to advanced satellite networking products at Linkabit; in the late 1980s he worked on Internet deployments for the military while at TRW; in the 1980s he helped develop spread spectrum military radios, the forerunner of today’s cellular technologies, for Hughes Aircraft. Mr. Moring is named inventor on 13 patents. He earned his MS in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 1984 and his BS in electrical engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1981.

23 Tom L. Schaffnit, an expert in wireless telecommunications technology with more than 20 years of wide-ranging related experience, is the President of A2 Technology Management, LLC, where he provides strategic technology management support to Honda R&D Americas, Inc., in the area of advanced safety systems enabled by wireless communications. Since 2010, he has also served as President of the Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Consortium. In this role, he provides leadership for a precompetitive consortium of 10 major automakers, focused on development of industry policy positions related to 5.9 GHz DSRC for connected vehicles. In the late 1990s, Mr. Schaffnit was President of CUE Data Corporation, responsible for creating and implementing new ITS datacasting services on a nationwide FM subcarrier data network. Before that he was a senior manager at Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group and a director of telecommunications systems strategies at Nordicity Group, Limited. Mr. Schaffnit earned an MBA in systems management from the University of Manitoba in 1990 and a BSc in industrial management, engineering option, from Purdue University in 1973. He was registered with the Association of Professional Engineers of the Province of Manitoba. Steven E. Shladover conducts research on automated and connected vehicles systems at the California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) Program at the University of California, Berkeley, a major university research program in ITS, where he has previously served as Deputy Director and Advanced Vehicle Control and Safety Systems (AVCSS) Program Manager. He leads a variety of intelligent transportation research projects at PATH, with an emphasis on connected automation systems to improve mobility. Formerly he was Manager, Transportation Systems Engineering, with Systems Control Technology, Inc. He is active in international standards development, serving as United States Expert and Chairman of the U.S. Working Advisory Group to the International Organization for Standardization’s Technical Committee on Intelligent Transport Systems Working Group 14 on Vehicle– Roadway Warning and Control Systems. He was Chairman of the AVCSS Committee of IVHS America/ITS America and currently chairs the Transportation Research Board standing Committee on Vehicle–Highway Automation. He received his SB, SM, and ScD in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.