Barbara Czerny (Past Speaker)

Currently Sr. Technical Specialist with ZF TRW for safety and cybersecurity. Have worked in the automotive industry for ~30 years from software development for electronic climate controls, radios, steering wheel mounted accessory controls, CD players, etc., to SW process work with CMM levels 2 and 3, to automotive system safety work since 1998, and safety-critical systems research during Ph.D. work from 1994-1998. Member of the SAE and International System Safety Society. One of the founding members of Delphi's Safety-Critical Systems Center of Expertise. Co-developed system safety process for Delphi Automotive Systems (1998-2001). Developed a software safety process for automotive safety-critical systems in 2001-2002 for Delphi Automotive Systems. ISO Working Group 16 technical expert involved in the development of the automotive functional safety standard ISO 26262. US Technical Advisory Group in the development of ISO 26262. Active member SAE Functional Safety Committee and SAE Cybersecurity Committee. Major contributor to SAE J3061 Recommended Practice. Work experience includes automotive system safety, verification and validation, requirements engineering and analysis activities and automotive cybersecurity issues, and providing mentoring and coaching to up and coming system safety engineers, and in cybersecurity process and methods for automotive security-critical cyberphysical automotive systems. Experience on security-critical systems with respect to secure embedded systems process, methods, and tools. Co-chair for SAE Cybersecurity for Cyber-Physical Systems technical session 2012 - 2015.

Specialties: System and SW Safety Analysis, Design, Processes, and Training; SW Processes and Training; Fault Injection Testing (on-bench and in-vehicle), hazard metric development, diagnostics development, requirements engineering and analysis, cybersecurity for cyber-physical automotive systems, mentoring, coaching, etc.