Daniel Tefera

Daniel Tefera, Ph.D., currently serves as Project Manager & Business Development Manager at Smart Eye, focusing on AI-driven in-cabin automotive solutions since September 2023. Prior to this role, Daniel spent over 14 years at MELEXIS as OEM Business Development Manager and Senior Application Engineer, specializing in optical semiconductor devices and supply chain identification. Experience also includes a position as Senior Application Engineer at Sensata Technologies, where Daniel developed a DSP-based image preprocessing library for ADAS applications, and as Lead Researcher at DENSO, contributing to research in image processing for advanced driver-assistance systems. Earlier career as Senior Engineer at Link Information System involved managing projects to enhance video phone communication quality and developing cellphone camera applications. Daniel holds an MBA from the Alliance Manchester Business School, a Ph.D. in Computer Vision from Hiroshima University, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Addis Ababa University.