The Lineup

Mr. Daiki Furukawa joined Toyota Motor Corporation (Japan) in 2016 as an engineer in the passive safety division. He is responsible for the development of advanced restraint systems for frontal crash since 2016. He has experience with hardware tests and simulations including human body models and ATDs. He has been a member of JAMA dummy technical working group (2020-2023). Currently he is the assistant manager of the advanced restraint system development team in Toyota Motor Corporation and guest researcher at BASt (2024), investigating hardware test scatter influence of MPDB test.

Kai Golowko has been working in the area of vehicle safety since 1999. He started his career as a test engineer for passive safety at ACTS. Since 2003 he has been working as senior engineer for occupant safety and pedestrian protection. Since 2005 he has managed the department vehicle safety at Bertrandt in Gaimersheim. He has also been responsible for active and passive vehicle safety for the Bertrandt Group since 2017.

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.

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.

Dr. Yuan Zhong is an expert with more than 30 years of working experience in vehicle crashworthiness. Since Dr. Yuan Zhong received his Doctor Degree from Nagoya University in Japan, he worked for Toyota(in Japan) for about 16 years, focused on vehicle crashworthiness design and simulations. After that he moved to China and worked as vice Chief Engineer in Vehicle Engineering Research Institute of CATARC for more than 5 years, and then as a senior chief engineer in Geely Vehicle Research Institute for a couple of years. And worked as a senior chief engineer in vehicle safety department in JMC for five years. And now back CATARC as a Senior chief expert in vehicle safety