WG 5: Mobility and Intelligent Transport Systems

Dr. Claus Bahlmann is Head of Artificial Intelligence and Principal for Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision with Siemens Mobility. In these roles, he and his team are incubating and executing strategic R&D programs at the intersection of AI and Rail Traffic to be transferred into the Siemens product portfolio. Before joining Siemens Mobility in 2012, Claus worked as Research Scientist for Siemens Corporate Technology in Princeton (USA), developing Machine Learning and Computer Vision technology for Mobility, Healthcare, and Security applications. He graduated from University of Freiburg with a PhD degree on Machine Learning.

Dr.-Ing. Tobias Hesse studied mechatronics in Paderborn and as a Fulbright Scholar at Virginia Tech (USA). As part of his doctorate at the International Graduate School in Paderborn and the TU Ilmenau, he developed an autonomously driving test vehicle between 2006 and 2009. Since 2009, he has been researching new cooperative automation functions at DLR as well as their interaction with users and road users and the networking of vehicles and the transport infrastructure. Since 2015, he has been head of department at DLR, where he is responsible for developing a systemic approach for coordinated, cooperative road traffic with real and virtual infrastructure. Mr. Hesse also coordinates the "Traffic 5.0" project for cross-domain, self-organized mobility applications for DLR, which involves 12 DLR institutes.