Alessia Knauss holds a PhD degree in software engineering from the University of Victoria, Canada. She has been a Postdoctoral fellow at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden before working with leading companies in the area of ADAS and AD, such as Autoliv, Veoneer, and Zenseact. In these domains, her research interests include self-adaptive systems, requirements engineering, user related aspects, HMI. Dr. Knauss is member of program committees of major conferences and reviewer of top journals in her field.