Philip Koopman

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Prof. Philip Koopman is an internationally recognized expert on Autonomous Vehicle (AV) safety whose work in that area spans 30 years. He has also been involved with AV policy and standards as well as more general embedded system design and software quality. His pioneering research work includes software robustness testing and run time monitoring of autonomous systems to identify how they break and how to fix them. He has extensive experience in software safety and software quality across numerous embedded system, transportation, industrial, and defense application domains including conventional automotive software and hardware systems. He is faculty emeritus at the Carnegie Mellon University ECE Department where he taught software skills for mission-critical systems until 2025. In 2018 he