Associate Research Scientist, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) 

André Weimerskirch is an associate research scientist in University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute’s (UMTRI) Engineering Systems Group, leading UMTRI’s cybersecurity and privacy research. His research focuses on vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication security and privacy and transportation security, with a special focus on connectivity, infotainment systems, secure hardware and trustworthy computing platforms, key management, privacy and in-vehicle electronics.

Prior to joining UMTRI, Weimerskirch co-founded the automotive cybersecurity company ESCRYPT, where he was in charge of ESCRYPT’s American and Asian operations with offices in the United States, Japan and Korea.

Weimerskirch earned a doctorate degree in applied data security from Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany, and a master’s degree in computer science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He has published numerous articles on automotive and embedded cybersecurity, and is co-founder of escar USA, a global conference on embedded security in cars.