Rini Sherony is a Sr. Principal Engineer at Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) which is part of Toyota Technical Center located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is with Toyota for the past 18 years working in crash data analysis, active safety/advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) design, testing and planning. Rini has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering. At CSRC She is the lead for active safety/ADAS collaboration research and crash data analysis. Her current responsibilities include development of test procedures, surrogate target, and testing for active safety systems like Pre-Collision, Pedestrian Pre-Collision system, Lane departure warning and prevention systems, etc. She is part of organizing committees for many scientific conferences like SAE World Congress, SAE Active Safety, FAST Zero conferences, IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium, etc. She is involved in several SAE standards development committees in the area of active safety/ADAS. She has co-authored over 40 papers in automotive safety and has 9 patents.

Toyota Motor Corporation is a global automotive industry leader manufacturing vehicles in 27 countries or regions and marketing the company’s products in over 170 countries and regions. Founded in 1937 and headquartered in Toyota City, Japan, Toyota Motor Corporation employs over 330,000 people globally. Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center - by partnering with leading universities, hospitals, research institutions and federal agencies, we’re focused on safety research projects aimed at developing and bringing to market new and advanced safety technologies.