IEEE to Honor Professor Alberto Broggi, founder of VisLab, an Ambarella Company, for His Achievements in the Field of Autonom...
May 19 2017 - 08:00AM
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Professor Broggi to Receive IEEE Medal and Present His
Visionary Ideas for Autonomous Driving Technology at the 2017 IEEE
Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit
Ambarella, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMBA) a leading developer of low-power,
HD and Ultra HD video processing semiconductors, today announced
that IEEE will honor Professor Alberto Broggi with the IEEE Medal
for Environmental and Safety Technologies, with citation, “for
leadership in vehicular environmental perception, and for setting
worldwide milestones in safe and reliable intelligent vehicles.”
The award will be presented at this year’s IEEE Honors Ceremony to
be held on May 25 at The Palace Hotel, San Francisco.
IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization
with more than 400,000 members in 160 countries; every year IEEE
recognizes the work and entrepreneurship of some of the greatest
minds of our time who have made a lasting impact on society for the
benefit of humanity. The IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety
Technologies is presented to individuals or a team for their
outstanding accomplishments in the application of technology in the
fields of interest of IEEE that improve the environment and/or
public safety.
“Professor Broggi’s pioneering activities in the field of
vehicular robotics are recognized worldwide as milestones that have
shaped the early stages of perception for intelligent vehicles and
the leading efforts in autonomous driving,” said Dr. Fermi Wang,
CEO and co-founder of Ambarella. “As a scientist at the University
of Parma, he envisioned computer vision as the main technology to
empower vehicles to intelligently understand the environment and
ultimately drive by themselves. As an energetic entrepreneur,
Professor Broggi created the VisLab startup, and organized unique
autonomous driving challenges, inspiring many other companies and
car makers that followed with similar activities. Professor Broggi
is now General Manager at VisLab, which Ambarella acquired in 2015,
aiming at transitioning his visionary technology from research to
industry-leading products.”
The award ceremony will immediately follow the IEEE Vision,
Innovation, and Challenges Summit, where Prof. Broggi will deliver
an invited speech on the visionary ideas that helped craft and keep
together a successful group of top-level engineers who have been
shaping the autonomous driving technology.
The award consists of a gold medal, bronze replica, certificate,
and honorarium of $20,000, which Prof. Broggi is donating to the
University of Parma as recognition of the importance of education
of young researchers. The cash prize will be matched by Ambarella,
creating a $40,000 fund to support students with grants in a
two-year program to focus on computer vision applications for
safety.
The 2017 IEEE Honors Ceremony will be broadcast live on May 25,
2017 at 7:00 PM PDT, courtesy of IEEE.tv via IEEE Transmitter
at http://transmitter.ieee.org/honors-ceremony-2017/.
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About Ambarella
Ambarella, Inc. is a leading developer of low-power,
high-definition and Ultra HD video compression and image processing
solutions. The company’s products are used in a variety of cameras
including security IP-cameras, wearable cameras, drone cameras and
automotive video processing solutions. Ambarella compression chips
are also used in broadcasting TV programs worldwide. For more
information about Ambarella, please
visit www.ambarella.com.
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