VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich., U.S., Dec. 6, 2016 – Leading automotive cockpit electronics supplier Visteon Corporation (NYSE:VC) has named Matthias Schulze to lead the company’s next-generation advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) development, including a new centralized approach to domain controller and platform development. Based at Visteon’s technical center in Karlsruhe, Germany, Schulze will report to Chief Technology Officer Markus Schupfner. Schulze joins Visteon in January 2017.
Schulze joins Visteon from Daimler AG, where he headed the automaker’s Group Research and Advanced Engineering activities in environmental perception, ADAS system development, autonomous driving and vehicular communications.
With more than 20 years of experience in advanced technology development, Schulze is a recognized technologist with strong ties to the global ADAS and intelligent transport (ITS) communities, international consortia and academic institutions, as well as automotive manufacturer and supplier research and development centers.
Schulze is the latest high-caliber technologist to join Visteon’s newly established Chief Technology Office (CTO), led by Schupfner. The CTO is responsible for building industry-leading ADAS and autonomous driving solutions based on a unique centralized domain controller approach incorporating artificial intelligence and machine learning for object detection and classification.
Schulze holds degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and business economics from the Institut für betriebswirtschaftliche Weiterbildung, Würzburg, Germany.