Andre Weimerskirch

Software, Cybersecurity and Functional Safety Lear Corporation

Dr. André Weimerskirch is Vice President for Platform Software, Cybersecurity and Functional Safety at Lear Corporation. Before that, André established the transportation cybersecurity group at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) and still holds an Adjunct Associate Research Scientist appointment at UMTRI. André also co-founded the embedded systems security company ESCRYPT in 2004 which was sold to Bosch in 2012. André is active in all areas of automotive and transportation cybersecurity and privacy, he is a main designer of the American vehicle-to-vehicle SCMS security system, published numerous articles in automotive and embedded cyber security, is co-founder of the American workshop on embedded security in cars (escar USA), and chairs the Mcity cybersecurity working group at the University of Michigan.