Dr. Cornel Klein leads the corporate research program at Siemens Foundation Technologies on the validation and engineering of intelligent and autonomous systems and manages large collaborative research projects. In this role, he is closely connected with external partners in the Siemens research and innovation ecosystem, including funding agencies, universities, startups, and industrial R&I initiatives.

He has extensive expertise in communications, cyber-physical and embedded systems, software and systems engineering, as well as in application domains such as automotive, mobility, and smart cities/buildings. Cornel has also served as project manager and co-author of several foresight studies, including The Software Car, which explores the impact of digital transformation on the automotive industry, and Embodied Intelligence: Driving the Digital Transformation 2.0.

Cornel holds a Masters degree and a PhD in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich.