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Fueling Interdisciplinary Innovation With AI: Volvo’s Anders Sjögren

2023/10/10
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Anders Sjögren: 我在沃尔沃汽车负责数据分析和人工智能在工程领域的应用，涵盖研发阶段和汽车实际功能的提升。我的目标是确保我们充分利用数据分析和AI技术创造价值，这体现在汽车制造、智能功能和个性化功能等方面。我们利用AI优化汽车零部件设计，例如设计更轻、更节能的机械部件，同时保证其强度和性能。AI还用于提升汽车安全性，例如通过传感器监测驾驶员状态，提醒驾驶员休息，以及检测车内是否遗留儿童或宠物等。沃尔沃的创新理念源于对真实世界安全事故的分析和对客户需求的理解，并结合新兴技术。我们内部有正式和非正式的机制来促进跨学科的创新，公司总部各部门的紧密地理位置也为此提供了便利。在技术应用方面，我们采取内外结合的策略，既有内部研发，也有与外部公司合作。成功应用AI需要公司不同部门的协同合作，才能避免形成信息孤岛，并充分发挥AI的优势。我个人对计算机和数据分析一直抱有浓厚兴趣，职业生涯经历了工程、医学、统计学和软件开发等多个领域。 Sam Ransbotham: 本期节目探讨了沃尔沃汽车如何利用人工智能技术，以及如何将业务问题与技术解决方案相结合。Anders的分享展现了沃尔沃在AI应用上的创新，以及如何通过技术提升汽车的个性化、安全性及可持续性。 Shervin Khodabandeh: 本期节目中，Anders分享了沃尔沃汽车如何利用人工智能技术解决实际问题，例如提升汽车制造效率、增强驾驶安全性以及提升客户体验。这体现了AI技术在汽车行业中的广泛应用，以及跨部门协作的重要性。同时，Anders也表达了对AI技术未来发展方向的思考，以及对AI技术应用于人类共同利益的期许。

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Anders Sjögren discusses how Volvo Cars utilizes AI and data analytics in the engineering process to ensure parts are made efficiently and to enhance driver experience and safety.

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Starting a career with the ambition of becoming a medical doctor and ending up a technical leader for a major automaker might seem an unlikely path, but for Anders Sjögren, who leads data and AI innovation projects for Volvo Cars, it was a perfect trajectory.

On this episode, Anders joins Sam and Shervin to explain the ways the carmaker uses data and artificial intelligence to inform manufacturing — ensuring that parts are made consistently and as efficiently as possible — as well as driver experience and safety. He also outlines some specific ways smart technology keeps drivers alert and aware of conditions around them and describes Volvo’s approach to technology-driven innovation. Read the episode transcript here).

Me, Myself, and AI is a collaborative podcast from MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group and is hosted by Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh. Our engineer is David Lishansky, and the coordinating producers are Allison Ryder and Sophie Rüdinger.

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Guest bio:

Anders Sjögren is senior technical leader for Volvo Cars. He focuses on strategy, research, innovation, and transformation, with the key objective of ensuring that the automaker understands and executes within the continuously emerging areas of data, analytics, and artificial intelligence. Application areas include creating AI-enabled intelligent customer functionality and using AI to reform Volvo’s operations and development activities. Sjögren has an academic background in mathematical statistics (large-scale and computational aspects) and an industrial background in data-centric methods development and software product development.

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