Meet our judges

Alongside his role at BMW, Dr Ahmed Ebada, a professor of informatics and AI, is also a serial entrepreneur of digital twin, AI strategy and large-scale data platforms. With his experience at BMW and ...

With three decades in chassis and vehicle dynamics, Damian Harty brings technical excellence and strategic insight to every project. His career spans high-performance race, rally, road and military ve ...

A seasoned automotive structural specialist with over 25 years of experience, Prasad Kulkarni has held roles at OEMs including Honda, Tata Motors, Volvo-Eicher and Mahindra. He specializes in crashwor ...

Prasad is a vehicle safety engineer with experience in developing advanced safety systems that comply with global crash regulations such as FMVSS and ECE. He specializes in optimizing crashworthiness ...

Dr Huw Davies has had roles in motorsport design, vehicle safety research and academia. His research interest is the development of the vehicle test environments and performance measures that support ...

Having spent the best part of 20 years at Bentley, Phil Durston joined VW in 2017. An integrative vehicle engineer, his current focus is in ADAS and autonomous driving development in proving ground en ...

Alex Grant is a freelance automotive and technology journalist with over a decade of experience working for consumer, B2B and corporate clients. In addition to contributing to UKi’s automotive publica ...

Based in Calgary, Canada, Graham Heeps is a former editor of Automotive Testing Technology International and Tire Technology International. Now working freelance, his other outlets include Professiona ...

Having joined Stellantis in 2004, Robert has since been providing and developing technical expertise globally for the science; overall he has over 24 years of experience in the field of automotive EMC ...

Nils Katzorke is responsible for the strategic development of the Mercedes-Benz proving ground in Immendingen, Germany. Prior to its opening, he was a project coordinator for the construction and ramp ...

Sharad Matade has been reporting on the rubber and tire industries for over a decade. Alongside his role as editor of Tyre Trends, he is also an executive editor of sister publication, Motoring Trends ...

Jon M Quigley is a seasoned automotive test engineer with over 20 years of experience at both suppliers and OEMs, including more than a decade each at Volvo and Volvo Trucks. Jon is particularly known ...

Vincent Sabatini has been an automotive engineer for 13 years. He previously worked for dSPACE before moving to Ford Motor Company. He has supported component, subsystem and full-vehicle HIL testing f ...

With over 22 years of experience in vehicle product development, crashworthiness, virtual simulation and validation, Sunil Waghmare is safety project performance lead at Stellantis. He played a pivota ...

Bolin Zhou is a seasoned expert in automated driving system verification and validation. He serves as the secretary and expert for ISO TC22/SC33 WG9, the working group focused on test scenarios for au ...