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Greenville, SC-based International Transportation Innovation Center Promoted Joachim Taiber as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
International Transportation Innovation Center is a leading-edge automotive research infrastructure. It facilitates a new approach to incubate transportation innovations in an ecosystem environment - open to multiple stakeholders at the same time - that is safe, secure, and confidential. Our partnership between Clemson University International Center For Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) provides critical access to expert knowledge and state-of-the-art labs. The ITIC testing infrastructure, which is embedded at the South Carolina Technology and Aviation Center campus, allows companies to physically validate - in a real-world scenario - vehicle and infrastructure technologies that were conceived and developed in simulation and lab environment. ITIC includes an asphalt surface straightaway, concrete surface straightaway, urban testing grid and interstate test track.
About the Person
Joachim G. Taiber joined the International Transportation Innovation Center (ITIC) as Chief Technology Officer in 2016. In this function he oversees the planning and implementation of testbeds to validate transportation innovations in public private partnership models as well as the planning and implementation of R&D projects in the transportation domain in partnership with public and private clients. He stays affiliated with Clemson University as adjunct professor. Dr. Taiber served at Clemson University as a research professor and member of the faculty of Automotive Engineering located at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) from 2010 - 2015 with a specific research focus on Sustainable, Connected and Automated Mobility. Prior to his engagement at Clemson University, Dr. Taiber was leading the Information Technology Research Office of the BMW Group Information Technology Research Center (ITRC), the first facility created at the CU-ICAR campus. He joined BMW in Germany in 1997 as an in-house consultant for business process re-engineering in product development with a focus on functional integration and vehicle systems integration. Since 1999 he worked in different leadership positions in the BMW Group Enterprise IT organization in the areas of IT strategy, IT program management, IT innovation management and IT benchmarking. In 2005 he came to the US to implement collaborative IT innovation projects for the BMW Group in the ITRC which included topics in the domain of the “networked vehicle”. Dr. Taiber started his career as assistant to the CTO of a Swiss start-up company in the area of CAD/CAM/PDM systems where he was responsible for product strategy and university research collaboration. He holds a Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD Degree in Technical Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ).
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