Uptane People
Uptane is served by a board, an advisory group, a few staff members, and a number of volunteers from both the software security and automotive industries.
Uptane Alliance Board Members
As an ISTO alliance, the Uptane Alliance is overseen by a Board of Directors, and its activities are governed by a set of bylaws. The Uptane Alliance Board members are:
- Justin Cappos of NYU Tandon School of Engineering
- Ira McDonald of High North Inc.
- Andre Weimerskirch of Lear Corporation and University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
Uptane Advisory Group
This group serves in an advisory capacity for Uptane activities.
- Arthur Taylor of HERE Technologies
- Cameron Mott of Southwest Research Institute
- Gloria Danna of General Telecom Systems
- Philip Lapczynski of Renesas
- Russ Bielawski of Secure Embedded Systems
- Tom Forest of General Motors
- Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy of Datadog and New York University
Reference Implementation Personnel
The reference implementation for Uptane is currently managed by Justin Cappos and maintainer Sebastien Awwad at New York University’s Secure Systems Lab.
Please visit the governance page to learn how project decisions are made, and for a more detailed explanation of the project roles used below.
Consensus Builder:
Justin Cappos
Email: jcappos@nyu.edu
GitHub username: @JustinCappos
PGP fingerprint: E9C0 59EC 0D32 64FA B35F 94AD 465B F9F6 F8EB 475A
Maintainer:
Sebastien Awwad
Email: sebastien.awwad@nyu.edu
GitHub username: @awwad
PGP fingerprint: C2FB 9C91 0758 B682 7BC4 3233 BC0C 6DED D5E5 CC03
Project Contributors
Many people have contributed their expertise to this project since its inception, including original equipment manufacturers and third-party suppliers from the auto industry, representatives of government agencies, academics, and members of the open-source community. Here is an alphabetical list of the primary contributors that have been asked to have their name listed.
Organizations
- Airbiquity (Uptane Alliance Member)
- Automative Grade Linux, part of the The Linux Foundation
- HERE Technologies, formerly Advanced Telematic Systems
- High North Inc (Uptane Alliance Board Member)
- IEEE/ISTO
- Lear Corporation (Uptane Alliance Board Member)
- LG Electronics (Uptane Alliance Member)
- NYU Tandon School of Engineering (Uptane Alliance Board Member)
- OTAInfo (Uptane Alliance Member)
- Southwest Research Institute
- University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security (sponsor)
Individuals
- Sebastien Awwad
- David Balenson
- Russ Bielawski
- Akan Brown
- Josiah Bruner
- Justin Cappos
- Vladimir Diaz
- Chase Garwood
- Kyusuk Han
- Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy
- Sam Lauzon
- John Liming
- Daniel Massey
- Ira McDonald
- Akshay Mehta
- Damon McCoy
- Cameron Mott
- Jon Oster
- Christos Papadopoulos
- Patrick Vacek
- Sam Weber
- André Weimerskirch
- David Zage