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Jim Misener is the Transportation Safety Research Leader at the California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) at UC Berkeley, a program with over twenty-five safety-related projects. In his twelve years at PATH, he has led numerous Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) projects at PATH, with sponsorship from US DOT (FHWA, FTA, FMCSA), Caltrans and various vehicle manufacturers. Recently, Mr. Misener has led a large-scale integrated research effort focused on vehicle-infrastructure integration, and in areas of traffic management, traveler information as well as safety.
Mr. Misener is a member of IEEE (Intelligent Transportation Section), SAE (Dedicated Short Range Technical Committee, Digitial Map Subcommittee Chair), SPIE and is an active member of the TRB Vehicle Highway Automation Committee. Mr. Misener serves on the ITS America Automotive, Telematics and Consumer Electronics Advisory Board and is the Northern California Section vice chair of the ITS California Board of Directors. Jim has recently served as a safety special edition editor for the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. Mr. Misener obtained a BS from UCLA and a MS from USC and has been a United States Air Force officer. Prior to working at PATH, Jim has researched electronic countermeasures and on combat vehicles and rocket exhaust plume observables.

Dr. H. Krishnan is a staff research engineer in the Electrical & Controls Integration Laboratory at the General Motors Research and Development Center. He conducts research in design, development and evaluation of Advanced Vehicle Control and Safety Systems (AVCSS) systems for automobiles and currently, he leads the GM research program on vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to- infrastructure communications based on DSRC.
Prior to joining GM, he has been an Assistant professor at the National University of Singapore, Singapore from January 1993 to December 2000. He has been a visiting assistant research engineer at California PATH, University of California, Berkeley during the period June 1999 - June 2000.
He has more that 50 publications in internationally refereed journals and conference proceedings and his research publications have been cited over ONE HUNDRED and FIFTY (150) times by other journal articles included in the Science Citation Index. He has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Control System Society from 1998 to 2005.
He received the PhD degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA in 1992 and MS degree from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1988 with specializing in the areas of systems and control, and robotics. He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree from the College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, India in 1985.

Mr. Satoshi (Sam) Oyama is Senior Manager, ITS Solutions Center, Total Solutions Div., Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
While he was stationed in Hitachi Sales Corp. of America, New Jersey, U.S.A., he worked for broadcast satellite receivers and CATV equipments. After his returning to Japan, he has been involved with 5.8GHz DSRC standardization activities for several years. His current interests are on Vehicle Safety Communications and WLAN for ITS applications.
He is Chair of DSRC International Task Force, DSRC Expert Group, and Vice Chair of Vehicle Safety Communications Task Group, ITS Info-communications Forum, Japan. He is Leader of Wireless Communications Expert Groups and Rapporteur of ITS Expert Group, ASTAP (Asia-Pacific Telecommunity Standardization Program. For ITU-R SG8 WP8A, he has been a delegate of Japan. In ISO, he has been an expert from Japan for TC204 WG15, and he has been Leader of International Harmonization Project, Radio Communications Sub WG, WG15 in Japan. From December 2006, he is Chair of International relationship and Architecture Sub Committee, J-Safety Committee in ITS Japan.
He is a registered Professional Engineer.

Mr. Kavner is the Technical Director of VII Programs for Raytheon Company. He has over twenty years of experience in Communications Systems Design & Development. He helped develop several open-road, all electronic toll collection systems using 900 MHz transponders, beginning with the world’s first such system on Highway 407 in Toronto ten years ago. The last four years he has worked exclusively with 5.9 GHz DSRC/WAVE technology and its application to the VII program.
Mr. Kavner is heavily involved with the development of VII related standards in IEEE 802.11, IEEE 1609, SAE and the OmniAir Consortium. As VII has transitioned from Standards development to Proof-of-Concept testing, Mr. Kavner has been involved in all aspects of the system development including the Network, RSE, OBE and Security. One of his many areas of interest is the development and analysis of the various methods proposed to provide anonymous security, which is one of the most technically challenging aspects of the US VII Program.
He received a Bachelors Electrical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA, and a Masters in Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

Timo Kosch works as a team manager for BMW Group Research and Technology where he is responsible for projects on Car2X, including such topics as cooperative systems for active safety and automotive IT security. He has been active in a number of national and international research programs and serves as coordinator for the European project COMeSafety, co-financed by the European Commission. For more than 3 years, until recently, he had chaired the working group Architecture and was a member of the Technical Committee of the Car-to-Car Communication Consortium.
Mr. Kosch studied Computer Science and Economics at Darmstadt University of Technology and at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver with scholarships from the German National Merit Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service. He received his PhD from the computer science faculty of the Munich University of Technology.