Prof. Bowen Weng visited our lab and gave a talk, entitled “On the possibilities and impossibilities of safety testing standards of robots”. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Iowa State University.

Bowen Weng is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Iowa State University. He received his Masters Degree in System and Control Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 2016 and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2023. Since 2016, before joining Iowa State University, he worked as a Research Engineer, Technical Specialist, and Research Scientist at Transportation Research Center Inc. on assignment to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), U.S. Department of Transportation.Dr. Weng is the organizer of the IEEE-ITSC 2022, IEEE-IV 2023, and IEEE-ITSC 2023 workshops on “Safety Testing and Validation of Connected and Automated Vehicles” and the Associate Editor of IEEE-IV 2023. He also chairs the ASTM Committee F45.06 Legged Robot Systems for standard development.