After previous USA Alumni Tours in 2014 and 2018, we are back! With a combined network of over 8.000 ‘4TU’ graduates in the United States, our alumni are not only valuable contacts for each other but also unique access points to exciting organizations!

Join us next month for ‘behind the scenes’ alumni events at the HQ of autonomous vehicle company Motional (Boston, 19 April), Adyen’s North America Tech Hub (Chicago, 20 April) or ASML's Silicon Valley R&D facility (San Jose 25 April), as well as a casual meetup reception in San Francisco (venue TBD, 24 April).

These special gatherings are part of a new USA Tour organized by TU Delft, UTwente, TU/e and Wageningen University with evening programmes that include talks by local alumni from the host companies about their career paths and current jobs as well as updates from your alma mater. The closing ‘borrel’ drinks are a great opportunity for mixing with fellow TU alumni and will be organized to maximize networking opportunities.

The events are free of charge and open to all alumni of TU Delft, UTwente, TU/e and Wageningen University but prior registration is required.

Programme

06:00 PM (EDT)
Walk in

06:30 - 06:45 PM
Welcome by host and short update of the universities.
Welcome by Innovation Attache Mart Duitemeijer.

06:45 - 07:30 PM
Talks by:

Boaz Floor | Principal Engineer Team Lead @ Motional
Bruno Brito | Senior Research Scientist, Team Lead @ Motional

07:30 - 09:00 PM
Networking drinks with some fingerfood

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About Motional

Motional is making driverless vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. An American autonomous vehicle company founded in March 2020 as a joint venture between automaker Hyundai Motor Group and auto supplier Aptiv. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Motional also maintains operations in Pittsburgh, Singapore, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. The company is currently ‘training’ their IONIQ 5 robotaxis on the streets of Las Vegas with a plan to offer fully driverless service later this year.

Speakers

Boaz Floor

Principal Engineer Team Lead at Motional. After graduating from TU Delft with the Department of Cognitive Robotics in 2018, Boaz joined Motional in Singapore to work on optimal control strategies for trajectory generation. Now, Boaz is leading a team of researchers and engineers from the Boston office, developing motion planning and control algorithms for autonomous driving.

Bruno Brito

Bruno Brito is a Senior Research Scientist at Motional AD LLC, leading the Motion Planning Research team. He has received his Ph.D. Degree from the Delft University of Technology and the M.Sc. (2013) from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Between 2014 and 2016, he was a trainee at the European Space Agency (ESA) in the Guidance, Navigation, and Control section. After, he was a Research Associate, between 2016 and 2018, at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation. Currently, his research focuses on developing motion planning algorithms bridging learning-based and optimization-based methods for self-driving vehicles.

Location

Motional
100 Northern Ave
Suite 200
Boston, MA 02210

About DEAN

The Dutch Engineers Alumni Network (DEAN) of TU Delft, University of Twente, Wageningen University and TU Eindhoven launched its activities in 2014 and currently has communities in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Nordics, Spain and Switzerland. By bringing together the engineers that studied in the Netherlands, we hope to create valuable communities for our alumni. We encourage members to use these communities for sharing both achievements and information as well as tapping into the expertise of each other.

Dutch engineers work across a wide range of sectors, and are affiliated not only with the most prestigious organisations of their fields but in many cases also self-funded start-ups. Some of them may have only recently completed their studies in the Netherlands while others have already lived in one of these countries for a decade or more. This network, therefore, represents a significant source of skills, contacts, and advice.

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