Distinguished Lecturer

Cristina Olaverri-Monreal is professor and head of the Department of Intelligent Transport Systems at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, in Austria. Prior to this position, she led diverse teams in the industry and in the academia in the US and in distinct countries in Europe. She the president of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (IEEE ITSS) 2022 and 2023, founder and chair of the Austrian IEEE ITSS chapter, and chair of the Technical Activities Committee (TAC) on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles. She received her PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich in cooperation with BMW. Her research aims at studying solutions for efficient and effective transportation focusing on minimizing the barrier between users and road systems. To this end, she relies on the automation, wireless communication, and sensing technologies that pertain to the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Prof. Olaverri is a member of the EU-wide platform for coordinating open road tests (Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM)) as well as a representative for the European technology platform “Alliance for Logistics Innovation through Collaboration in Europe” (ALICE) for the ”Workgroup Road Safety” (WG4: EU-CCAM-WG-ROAD-SAFETY@ec.europa.eu). She is additionally a senior/associate editor and editorial board member of several journals in the field, including the IEEE ITS Transactions and IEEE ITS Magazine. Furthermore, she is an expert for the European Commission on “Automated Road Transport” and consultant and project evaluator in the field of ICT and “Connected, Cooperative Autonomous Mobility Systems” for various EU and national agencies as well as organizations in Germany, Sweden, France, Ireland, etc. In 2017, she was the general chair of the “IEEE International Conference on Vehicles Electronics and Safety” (ICVES’2017). She was awarded the “IEEE Educational Activities Board Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education” for her dedicated contribution to continuing education in the field of ITS.