Speakers & Chairmen

Andre Eggers is a researcher at BASt (German Federal Highway Research Institute) since 2006 working in the area of biomechanics, evaluation of dummies, human models and virtual testing. He studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Hamburg and Biomedical Engineering at Wayne State University. 2013 he completed his doctorate at the Technical University of Berlin. He contributed to several European research projects like IMVITER, THORAX, ASSESS, SENIORS and OSCCAR. He is representing BASt in Euro NCAP working groups related to injury criteria and virtual testing.

Takashi Hashimoto is an engineering manager at Cellbond Japan. After completing his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, he worked as a development engineer for airbags at ZF, focusing mainly on reducing Brain Injury Criteria (BrIC) and improving Rollover Resistance through the use of curtain airbags. He then transitioned to Cellbond where he dedicated his efforts to build a local support base for crush test barriers and ATD products, and establishing a dummy certification laboratory in Japan, putting effort into obtaining ISO17025 certification.

5 years of technical support experience as a technical representative of MESSRING propulsion systems, lighting systems, and active safety products in Japanese automotive industry 6 years of tech support experience of motion capture systems and CG compositing systems for broadcast market Technical expertise to integrate a turn-key system and to support professional customers in automotive industry

Dr Fauziana Lamin has been a Senior Research Officer at the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS) since 2009. She holds a PhD in Mechanical and Materials Engineering from the National University of Malaysia. Known for expertise in data analysis with a deep understanding of traffic safety principles, Dr Fauziana Lamin is passionate about mitigating risks for road users and dedicated to leveraging data-driven approaches for positive change in transportation safety. Dr Fauziana Lamin has 15 years of experience working with road crash investigation and vehicle testing. She has attended and reconstructed around 100 high-profile crash cases to improve road safety and transportation policies. In 2020 she joined the development and operation of ASEAN NCAP. She is actively involved in conducting and coordinating ASEAN NCAP's official and development tests, particularly for the active safety assessment.

Yuka Nakamura graduated from the Department of Marine Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University in 2010. She gained experience in CAE, mainly in the field of collisions, at a vehicle company and a car-related company, then she joined BETA CAE Systems Japan, Inc. in 2018. She is now in the Customer Service Department, where she is engaged in technical support and consulting work as an engineer.

Dr. Masahiro Okamura received a M.D. in 2000 and a PhD in 2004 both from Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. He has more than 15 years’ experience as crash and safety engineer with several crash codes in the automotive industry. Currently his main obligation at JSOL is business development in Digital twin, Digital homologation, and data-driven product development. His research fields are in Robust design process, Test-Simulation integration, Digital twin, Digital homologation.

Director and Professor Andre Seeck has been Vice President of the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) since April 2022, where he heads the Vehicle Technology division. In this position he is responsible for the preparation of European Safety Regulations. Furthermore he represents the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport in the Board of Directors of Euro NCAP and he is the chairman of the strategy group on automated driving and of the rating system. These positions enable him to gain deep insight into current and future developments in vehicle safety. In 2017 NHTSA awarded him the U. S. Government Special Award of Appreciation.

Takahiko Sugiyama is a research engineer for injury biomechanics at the Volkswagen Group Research. After completion his master’s in mechanical engineering in 2006, he joined Toyota Central R&D labs., Inc. and worked at Biomechanics Laboratory until 2012. Then, he moved to Volkswagen and has been working at Volkswagen Group Research since 2015. Through his research activity, he has been engaging in the projects to develop an active FE-HBM to investigate occupant’s physiological reaction during Pre-Crash phase and its influence to injury outcome.

For 30 years since joining JARI, he has been involved in research in the field of vehicle safety, with a focus on crash safety. In particular, he has been studied accident analysis, testing and evaluation methods for the safety of heavy-duty vehicles (trucks and buses) and child restraint systems. Since 2014, he has been responsible for many studies and research　 for the introduction of JNCAP, as well as the JNCAP public relations contact in JARI.