**About the Editors**

**Martin Torngren ¨** has served as Professor of Embedded Control Systems at the Mechatronics division of the KTH, Department of Machine Design, since 2002, at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He has been a pioneer in bridging the gaps between the fields of automatic control and real-time distributed systems, with research in recent years focused particularly on architectural design and safety engineering of autonomous trustworthy cyber-physical systems. He has spent several periods abroad as a visiting scholar, including at UC Berkeley and Stevens Institute of Technology. In 1994, he received the SAAB-Scania Award for qualified contributions in distributed control systems, and in 2004, the ITEA Achievement Award for contributions in the EAST-EEA project. Networking and multidisciplinary research have been characteristic throughout his career. He is the initiator and Director of the Innovative Centre for Embedded Systems, a KTH-industry competence network launched in 2008, and is moreover the Director for the recent Swedish competence center TECoSA on Trustworthy Edge Computing Systems and Applications.

**Didem Gurd ¨ ur¨ Broo** is an experienced researcher who is trained as a computer scientist and holds a Ph.D. degree in Mechatronics. Currently, she is a research associate at the University of Cambridge. She is associated with the Center for Smart Infrastructure, Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology and the Center of Digital Built Britain. Dr. Didem Gurdur Broo has collaborated with universities and companies all around Europe through three EU-funded projects while conducting research on data and visual analytics for cyber-physical systems. Dr. Didem Gurdur Broo has a multidisciplinary background from arts, computer science, and mechatronics. She strongly advocates the importance of cross-disciplinary, collaborative research. She has been granted IEEE Senior Membership due to her significant performance and excellence over the last five years. She is a member of European AI Alliance and actively contributes to the discussions of all aspects of artificial intelligence development and its impact on society.

**Elena Fersman** is Research Director of Artificial Intelligence at Ericsson. She is responsible of a team of researchers located in Sweden, USA, India, Hungary, and Brazil. She is a docent and Adjunct Professor in Cyber-Physical Systems, specialized in Automation, at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Uppsala University, a Master of Science in Economics and Management from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, and conducted a postdoctoral stay at the University Paris-Saclay. At Ericsson, she has held various positions ranging from product management to research leadership. Elena is a member of the Board of Directors of RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. Elena has co-authored over 50 patent families.

**Harold (Bud) Lawson** was an IEEE Life Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery Fellow, INCOSE Fellow, and recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's Computer Pioneer Award (2000), Lawson was a consultant with Lawson Konsult AB, Stockholm, Sweden.

**Vincent Aravantinos** was awarded his Ph.D. in Theoretical Informatics in 2010 from the University of Grenoble, France. Since then, he explored various academic domains from theory (proof theory at CNRS/TU Vienna, interactive theorem proving applied to probability theory and physics at Concordia University) to applied sciences (formal verification, requirements engineering, model-based systems engineering at fortiss, a research institute of TU Munich). Since 2017, he is working on autonomous driving, first on algorithms for perception, prediction, localization, and motion planning (at fortiss), then on safety of autonomous driving, since 2019, as a systems engineer with Autonomous Intelligent Driving—now a subsidiary of Argo AI.
