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Speaker

Heba Mustufa

Technical Lead Manager – Systems, Nuro

Heba Mustufa is a Technical Lead Manager for Systems at Nuro. She is responsible for the safety program for Nuro’s custom R3 vehicle which includes adapting safety standards to the R3 program, requirement generation, V&V framework design, and risk evaluation. Heba’s work extends to autonomy safety processes and generating end-to-end safety evaluations for the Nuro Driver platform. Prior to her Systems role at Nuro, Heba was an embedded software engineer both at Nuro and in the wireless industry. Heba is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, where she received a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering with a minor in Mathematics.

The Pop in Your Job – What drives you? Why do you love your job?
Heba is passionate about finding a way to maintain a high safety bar while simultaneously meeting ambitious milestones for the R3 program. She excels in finding a way to communicate risk and safety requirements to leadership and development teams who do not have a background in functional safety.

Session

Case Study

Monday, September 29

05:30 pm - 06:00 pm

Live in Berlin

Less Details

Mustufa delves into the processes and methodologies employed to effectively manage risks associated with AD technologies during prototyping, testing, demoing, and small-scale development. She explores the integration of ISO 26262 with emerging safety protocols, the adoption of rigorous testing frameworks, and the application of advanced risk management strategies. By focusing on these areas, she provides a comprehensive overview of best practices that can be implemented to safeguard the development pipeline and ensure the reliability and safety of AD systems.

  • Learn how to integrate ISO 26262 with new safety protocols for comprehensive safety coverage
  • Discover testing methodologies for thorough safety and performance evaluation for early development processes
  • Implement effective strategies to identify, assess, and mitigate safety risks throughout development
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Presentation

Company

Nuro

Nuro exists to better everyday life through robotics. Founded in 2016, Nuro is a leading AI Robotics company with fully autonomous vehicles on road today in California and Texas. The company’s core technology is the Nuro Driver™, an integrated autonomous driving system consisting of state-of-the-art, AI-first software and automotive grade L4 sense and compute hardware. The first commercial application of the Nuro Driver™ is autonomous goods delivery with our custom, electric, zero-occupant vehicles in partnership with some of the most recognized brands in the world including Uber and FedEx.