Ashish supports MODSIM technical sales team and customers in the area of conceptual body structure development. He holds Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Wayne State University with focus in solid mechanics. He is responsible to develop best practices and methods for structure development by leveraging simulation in conceptual phase of product development.
Yangwook CHOI is an expert in crashworthiness simulation with over 30 years of experience, and developing various methodologies and supporting the customers. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. Yangwook started his career as a crash/safety engineer at Hyundai Motor Company in Korea and then continues at Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA after completing his Ph.D. degree. He has recently been working on optimizing crashworthiness using an abstracted model and metadata for the conceptual design phase.
YongHa HAN has been working for Hyundai Motor Group for 25 years in the field of vehicle crash simulation. He received his M.S. from the Seoul National University. He is currently in charge of the Virtual Technology Innovation Research Lab and is focused on advanced simulation methodology development. YougHa is trying to create the most realistic simulations possible in virtual reality to save on testing costs as well as time.
Anup ITI, is an experienced engineer working closely with customers across various industries to support and improve their conceptual design processes. Having completed a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Wayne State University, Anup has been working in the field of conceptual structural engineering for 12 years. In his current role at Dassault Systèmes, within CATIA, he manages a team of conceptual design domain experts and supports Technical Sales for the Concept Engineering Solutions.
Stefan MERTZ is a senior industry process expert within Dassault Systèmes CATIA brand. With 10 years of experience in conceptual product development he is worldwide responsible for CATIA|SFE industry processes. After graduation at Technical University of Berlin with diploma in automotive engineering in 2011 he started as a project engineer at SFE GmbH in Berlin supporting and leading service projects in Europe, North America and Asia. Within 4 years at SFE GmbH he gained experience in project management, technical support and quality assurance. In 2015 he joined Dassault Systèmes as a solution consultant responsible for technical sales of CATIA | SFE products and is nowadays helping to enrich customer processes for conceptual design embracing MODELING & SIMULATION.
Shravan is a CATIA Industry Process Consultant at Dassault Systèmes Americas Corp. He earned his Graduate Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan – Dearborn. His main area of expertise is in Structures. He specialized in providing services to different automotive companies in their vehicle concept development phase using CATIA SFE CONCEPT.
Matthew PAIS is the North America director for the Modelling & Simulation technical team focusing on simulation-driven design. He started his career with Dassault Systèmes as an on-site engineer focused on structural simulation and now enjoys interacting with many customers on 3DEXPERIENCE Product Virtual Twin solutions. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri as well as MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida.
Prateek PATIL is an Industry Process Consultant at Dassault Systèmes with a vast experience in Conceptual Body Structures Development in the Transportation and Mobility Industry. He challenges the traditional methods of BIW development with innovative tools and processes that can help his customers achieve their goals in a much shorter time. He very well understands the workflows of both Design and Simulation that has enabled him to formulate efficient processes to reduce time to market for many customers. He brings with him testimonials from multiple automotive manufactures to share and explore further to keep improvising processes that can keep up with the fast paced changes happening to the automotive industry.
Panel: Unifying Modeling and Simulation to Drive Efficient Concept Design Development
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Manohar PRABHU is Director of Technical Sales, CATIA Concept Engineering at Dassault Systèmes. PRABHU has more than 20 years of experience working with various automotive OEMs and engineering companies globally in engineering and management. He is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) and Technical University of Berlin.
PRABHU started his professional career at SFE GmbH, an SMB in Berlin, Germany, as an Applications Engineer to become the VP for the North American business and later the Managing Director of SFE. After its acquisition by Dassault Systèmes, PRABHU successfully managed the merger and integration of SFE GmbH with Dassault Systèmes.
Raj is a CATIA Industry process consultant at Dassault Systèmes Americas Corp. He earned his Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from Wayne State University and has 10+ years of industry experience. His main area of expertise is automotive body structures. He specializes in providing solutions and services to different automotive customers in their Concept development phase using CATIA SFE CONCEPT.
Emir TOUAJNI is part of CATIA R&D team as a Concept Engineering Portfolio Manager based in France (Velizy). He define the concept solution alongside the development teams. He started his career as a CATIA Solution Tech Sales focused on design solutions, then moved in the formula one industry for 5 years where he worked for Catheram F1 and then Mclaren F1 as a Concept Lead Aero Engineer. And joined Dassault Systèmes in the Concept Portfolio team to define and propose the best concept solutions for our customers.
Panel: Unifying Modeling and Simulation to Drive Efficient Concept Design Development
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Dr Tayeb Zeguer hold a first honour degree in mechanical Engineering, a master degree in computer aided design and a doctor ( PhD) in optimisation and robustness. He joined Jaguar in 1984 in power train department. He worked as CAE analyst in various departments using linear and non linear codes on various components and vehicle assemblies. He specialised in multi disciplinary optimisation (MDO), safety and advanced CAE. Tayeb has proven ability to take CAE application to the next level, whether at component level , subsystem assemblies or complete vehicle. He has consistently shown leadership and vision to define a successful CAE strategy resulting in increasing accuracy, speed and robustness within JLR. Tayeb goal now is to provide JLR with an integrated, automated and design improvements methods in the use of MDO as a system engineering at a concept stages in order to carry out architecture system optimisation MDO considering all attributes for characterisation and target cascade from system to components using AI for speed at concept to delivery stages.
John COOPER is the Senior Director of Vehicle Engineering and Validation at DeLorean Motor Company. With nearly 45 years of experience, he has a significant background in EV startups and has successfully created two startup companies of his own. A deep understanding of growing companies and an accomplished career in engineering gives John a multifaceted perspective. Having also had the unique experience of profit and loss responsibility in a CEO role, John is able to support the financial success of the company by making cost-effective decisions as an engineer.
He is responsible for managing global certification, safety system integration, testing, NVH, vehicle attributes as well as performing vehicle simulation (CAE/CFD/vehicle dynamics) on new vehicles at DeLorean Motor Company.
When the EV space piqued his interest in 2012, John joined Tesla Motors as the Head of Vehicle Engineering CAE and Passive Safety. Responsible for all full-vehicle crash, occupant safety, durability, and fatigue analysis on the Model S and Model X, John played a pivotal role in the production of both vehicles from concept to delivery
His next notable role was at Karma Automotive where he served as the Director of Safety and Vehicle Engineering and later as Vice President of Vehicle Integration, Vehicle Engineering, and Safety. During his three-year tenure at Karma, John oversaw safety, testing, and CAE for all Karma platforms, and aided in the Revero 1.0 and 2.0’s launch to market.
Previous experiences also included chassis, powertrain, and transmission products for Cummins, GKN Technology, and Lotus Engineering; Director of Safety Systems and Integration at Breed Technologies, now Joyson Safety Solutions; CEO of TASS International; Vice President of Virtual Products at Denton ATD; Executive Director for Global Engineering Services at Key Safety Systems; Chief Engineer CAE and Safety at Mahindra North America; and Head of Vehicle Integration, CAE, and Passive Safety at Indi EV.
John received his Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Teesside University in Middlesbrough, England. John has over twenty patents related to Automotive. He is originally from England and is fluent in English and German.
Jørgen started his career in 2001 doing his Diploma Thesis on the evaluation of SFE Concept for the safety attribute.
Over the next ten years he worked in pre-programs ranging from small passenger cars to large commercial vehicles. As safety engineer and changed the way how the concept phases worked implementing a process using SFE Concept as central tool to deliver x-functional CAE models from the same source.
In 2008 the PhD Thesis on Structural Optimization was completed, which demonstrated shape, gauge and grade variables using SFE Concept.
As task leader and supervisor a small team was formed, which took a global role in standardizing and shaping the work in this phase and focusing x-attribute: Core activities have been: A centralized documentation the concept modeling, as well as the architecture attribute work, optimization and data analytics.
The Proof of Concept for CSE (Concept Structure Engineer) is one major focus of his work, beside the daily business.