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Karen Burnham, Principal Scientist at Electro Magnetic Applications in Denver, CO, USA

Software Defined Radio (SDR) - EMC Applications

Karen Burnham is a Principal Scientist at Electro Magnetic Applications in Denver, CO.  She is an iNARTE certified EMC engineer with experience in both the aerospace/defense and automotive industries.  At NASA JSC, she worked on the Orion spacecraft and pyrotechnic systems.  She was able to work on the Dream Chaser spacecraft and the F-35 fighter jet.  She spent several years working at Ford Motor Company on traditional vehicles like the Ford Edge and Lincoln Continental as well as on their line of electric hybrid vehicles such as the Ford Explorer and Lincoln Aviator.  Ms. Burnham is the Vice President of Standards for the IEEE EMC Society.  She holds a BS degree in Physics from Northern Arizona University and an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Houston.

SDR hardware can now be purchased easily for under $30 USD and SDR software packages are available free for any platform you like. Low cost SDRs can be a useful troubleshooting tool for the practicing EMC engineer.  In this talk, Ms. Burnham will demonstrate some of the handy capabilities of a low cost SDR system, from determining relative signal strengths to characterizing noise or interfering signals. 

Karim Mokaddem                                        Richard Perraud

                     Head of Electrification at Airbus              EMC Expert, Airbus Central Research and Technology

L’électrification des plateformes aéronautiques et les conséquences pour l’environnement électromagnétique

Karim Mokaddem is Head of Electrification at Airbus. In this role, he is responsible for establishing and overseeing Airbus’ electrification technology roadmap, which is mainly focused on all-electric and hybrid-electric architectures for propulsive and non-propulsive use.

Karim has held a variety of engineering, project leadership and management positions since starting his career in 1996. During his 14-year tenure at PSA Peugeot Citroen, he held several high-level roles, including Executive Chief Engineer of Technoboost, a joint-venture between PSA Peugeot Citroen and the French government. In 2014, he was named General Manager of AALPS Capital, an asset management company in low-carbon, hydrogen and fuel cell mobility. Prior to joining Airbus in 2020, he was Chief Technology Officer of Balyo, a company that develops, markets and installs fully autonomous material-handling robots.

Karim holds a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering, a PhD in Physics, and an MBA from London Business School. He is the author and co-author of several technical papers and patents, and has been internationally awarded for his work in mobility innovation.

Richard PERRAUD is an Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) expert within Airbus Central Research and Technology.  In his role, he contributes to the development of R&T projects and innovative solutions in the EMC field for the benefit of Airbus products. His expertise deals with Electromagnetic compatibility in aerospace systems including Indirect effects of Lightning, HIRF, on board EMC, as well as modeling techniques for electromagnetic analysis. Electrification technologies developments put in focus EMC of electrical power conversion systems and his current research topic is on new protection strategies to master integration while keeping the system performance. Born in 1972, he received the Master’s degree in Electromagnetic Compatibility from University of Burgundy , Dijon, 1996.

Airbus, as a Leader for the transformation of the aerospace industry, is engaged in a journey for decarbonation meeting environmental, societal and governance expectations. To reach the global objective of C02 emissions reduction, several paths are already identified such as sustainable aviation fuels, hydrogen powered aircraft  from H2 Fuel Cells or turbomachine burning H2. From urban air mobility to commercial aviation, electrification of our aircraft is identified as a key enabler to decrease the CO2 emissions of this sector and to create new modes of transportation. From hybridization to zero emissions scenario, electrification roadmap major steps will be presented during this talk. 

Frédéric LESCOAT                                               Marc LUBINEAU

Airbus Defence and Space                                                     Thales Alenia Space

Evolution dans le secteur spatial

Frédéric Lescoat is EMC Technical Coordinator in Airbus Defence and Space (ADS) in EMC/RF/Connectivity team. The Team is in charge of EMC activities for all satellite/space programs developed in ADS Toulouse site, with various application: Telecommunication, Earth Observation, Science, Exploration, Military…

Frédéric holds a degree in electronics and telecommunications from the University of Limoges, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Limoges (ENSIL), Limoges, France. Before being appointed in ADS, Frédéric has been working on various EMC / Electromagnetics programs. He joined ADS in 2008, being in charge of several satellites / instruments developments for ESA / CNES / private operators. Since 2017 he is responsible of the technical coordination and still participates to various R&T studies in support or has project leader.

 Marc LUBINEAU has 30 years of experience in the field of EMC measurement and analysis through 3 companies:

 o Aerospatiale 1989-1997 (Avionic equipment),

 o IERSET 1997-2001 (collaborative research project on EMC of integrated circuits involving Thales Alenia Space, Airbus Aircraft, Continental and FreeScale),

 o Since 2001 at Thales Alenia Space (EMC for equipment and system in space domain).

Over three decades, he had the opportunity to enrich his skills in EMC starting from the problem of the integrated circuit to that of a complex system such as a telecommunication satellite. He holds an engineering degree in electrical engineering from INSA Toulouse.

Toulouse is considered has a leader for European space industry activity. The two main industrial actors, Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space, will jointly present on going challenges that Electromagnetic Compatibility engineers have to face. Key drivers specific to space mission will be outlined and described. On-going and futures challenges of space European industry will also be shared with the audience; in particular complexity of electrical propulsion and the rise of New Space. And finally, a special focus will be done on radiated analysis/measurement on RF payload of a telecommunications satellite.

 Patrick Pérez

Valeo VP of AI and Scientific Director of valeo.ai

A gentle introduction to AI and its far-reaching applications

Patrick Pérez is Valeo VP of AI and Scientific Director of valeo.ai, an AI research lab focused on Valeo automotive applications, self-driving cars in particular. Before joining Valeo, Patrick Pérez was researcher at Technicolor (2009-2018), Inria (1993-2000, 2004-2009) and Microsoft Research Cambridge (2000-2004). His research interests include multimodal scene understanding and computational imaging. 

As 21-st century artificial intelligence (AI) is entering a second revolution -- with large generative models and reinforcement learning for the real world --, a decade after the first revolution of deep learning, the scope of its applications is expanding fast. This keynote will provide a gentle introduction to machine learning (ML), the field behind these AI revolutions, and will explain how it is profoundly changing a wide range of fields, from the obvious (communication, search, creation, robotics) to the more surprising (engineering, manufacturing, core sciences).