Roman is since January 2020 director for business development automotive at Ouster, Inc. He leads the relationship and business with key automotive customers in EMEA, with strong focus on OEMs and Tier 1s. Prior to that he was between 2012-2019 with Ibeo Automotive Systems GmbH in Hamburg, Germany, where he had multiple technical and management roles, which included the creation and leadership of the reference group for validation of AD and ADAS. From 2010-2012, Roman was researcher at NTT Docomo in Munich, Germany where he coordinated R&D projects, investigated software and scouted AI and multimedia technologies.
Roman received a PhD degree in Robotics from the University of Sydney, Australia in 2009. His PhD research focused on unsupervised object classification for intelligent automotive applications. He also holds a MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina.