Dr. Son Tong
son.tong@siemens.com
Vietnam, Belgium

Dr. Son Tong

R&D Engineering Manager in ADAS, Digital Twin & AI

Siemens Digital Industries Software

Driving innovation at the intersection of Engineering and AI, Virtual and Physical, Autonomous Systems and Engineering Workflow

Siemens DF PL Invention of the Year Award · AutoSens Finalist: Most Influential Research · EU Marie Curie Fellowship
European Horizon Project Coordinator & Scientific Advisor (10+)
Industry Speaker: JSAE, AutoSens, ADAS&AV Expo, Siemens Research and Innovation, NVIDIA Autonomous Driving Meetup
Talks, Lectures: KU Leuven, Oxford, Imperial, EPFL, TU Munich, UTokyo, TU Delft, Judge in FSG Formula Student Germany

Recent Posts

[Video demo] Engineering Workflow, Reimagined with Agentic AI.

[Video demo] Engineering Workflow, Reimagined with Agentic AI.

Having spent years working with engineering design, optimization, control using simulation and AI technologies, I have …

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JSAE  Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan 2026

JSAE Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan 2026

Had a nice week in the Japan office with Siemens and Altair colleagues, presenting at JSAE and a packed schedule of …

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[Paper] Graph Learning for 3D Engineering AI: Explainable Workflows

[Paper] Graph Learning for 3D Engineering AI: Explainable Workflows

When working with industrial AI, training a high performance prediction model is only one part of the challenges. Other …

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[Paper] Is this the real driver, or is it just a robot?

[Paper] Is this the real driver, or is it just a robot?

A study of human-like autonomous driving controllers in a driving simulator just got published in Transportation …

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[Paper] Automotive Engineering-Centric Agentic AI  Framework

[Paper] Automotive Engineering-Centric Agentic AI Framework

AI Agents and Agentic AI are increasingly considered in engineering workflows, not just for coding, reasoning, but also …

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[Blog] Siemens blog and video on robotics

[Blog] Siemens blog and video on robotics

As the robotics revolution accelerates, one of our key visions is to combine simulation with real world testing across …

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Visit and give Seminar at Oxford Control Group

Visit and give Seminar at Oxford Control Group

Last week, I had the pleasure visiting the Oxford Control Group to give a seminar and exchange ideas with faculty …

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PhDs Defense Juries

PhDs Defense Juries

In recent months, I’ve had the great honor of serving on PhD Defense Juries of four PhDs:

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EU RobustifAI project General Assembly Meeting

EU RobustifAI project General Assembly Meeting

It is great to welcome partners and colleagues from the EU RobustifAI project (Robustifying Generative AI through …

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R&D Activities

Integrating state of art research with practical applications

Digital Twin

  • Automotive, Robotics, Air mobility
  • Testing: Simulation & Physical
  • Real2Sim, Sim2Real

Autonomous Systems

  • Perception, Vision, 3D Gaussian Splatting
  • Control, MPC, Reinforcement Learning
  • Safety, Comfort

Engineering AI

  • AI Agents, Agentic AI
  • 3D PhysicsAI, Time Series
  • Stable Diffusion

Project Management

Technical coordinator and execution in European and Belgian projects