Dieter Schwarzmann is a project leader in the central department of technical strategy at Bosch. He studied Engineering Cybernetics at the University of Stuttgart, where he still teaches a course on control engineering for master students. He received a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in the field of Control for methods on automotive control and a Master of Engineering from the USA. After a period of a visiting scientist at MIT he lead various teams in the field of control engineering in automotive. Today, he focusses on full vehicle systems; having been the project lead of the first full prototype vehicle from Bosch and currently focusing on SdV with central compute and zones