March 19, 2025 6:00pm – 7:30pm

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Topic: Quality, Reliability, and Functional Safety Methods for LiDARs in Autonomous Vehicles

Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology has become part of the safety device suite of autonomous vehicle manufacturers. Carmakers in the US, Europe, China, Japan, and Korea have adopted LiDARs for their autonomous cars with press release to this effect in 2024. This presentation will provide the methods to address the functional safety, quality, and reliability of LiDARs for autonomous vehicles.

Speaker: Joy Gandhi, Managing Director, Omnex

Biography: Joy Gandhi is the Managing Director responsible for the Semiconductor and High Tech industry at Omnex, a leading management system services and software provider. For over 25 years she has been in quality and reliability engineering leadership roles in various semiconductor companies starting with Intel, Philips Semiconductor/NXP, and recently Western Digital. Joy was the Sr. Director of Quality at Quanergy, a LiDAR startup, where she led the ISO 26262 Functional Safety project and at Luminus Devices, an LED manufacturer. In 2012 she was the lead Omnex consultant for the automotive Quality Implementation at NVIDIA. In 2016, as a consultant at SQA Services she architected the semiconductor avionics audit program for the NASA/SpaceX Falcon/Dragon project. Currently she is the Omnex lead consultant for Reliability Engineering for a major LiDAR manufacturer in the US.

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