European Union Agency for Railways

Mikel Labayen Esnaola

Head of Autonomous Vehicle Initiatives

CAF

Biography

Mikel has a Ph.D. in Computer Vision & Artificial Intelligence and Telecommunication engineer and has more than 18 years of track records in automation projects. With extensive experience as a researcher/SW engineer (designing and developing systems), as a R&D project manager/director (leading projects and R&D teams) and as a co-founder and manager of a technological start-up. He has been working since 2018 in the field of railway signalling and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), as head of autonomous vehicle initiatives in mainline, within the CAF group.

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