Elmer E. Koch Professor of Engineering Marilyn Wolf delivered a keynote address at the IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, held March 25-27 in Valencia, Spain.
The keynote, “Validation and Verification of AI-Enabled Vehicles in Theory and Practice,” was part of the conference’s Special Day on Responsible and Robust AI. The keynote addressed the relationship between engineering methods for the design of safe systems and societal needs for confidence in the safety of AI-enabled autonomous vehicles.
Wolf urged the audience to leverage engineering knowledge about the design of safety-critical systems to better understand how to integrate new artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies into vehicles.
The keynote was also a collaboration with Dr. William Widen, Professor of Law at the University of Miami. Widen visited the University of Nebraska–Lincoln campus in 2021 to speak with College of Engineering students on the ethics of autonomous vehicles.