Vice-Dean for Cooperation with Industry. Associate Prof. Dr. Petr Simonik is the Deputy Chairman of the Board of the National Center for Industry 4.0 (https://www.ncp40.eu/) in the Czech Rep. He specializes in the development of semiconductor power converters, automotive electronic systems and ADAS and edrive testing systems. In the past, he was awarded by the Siemens Prize (as an individual, as a member of the awarded research team) for the results of his R&D activities. To date, he has led more than 90 graduate theses at the university (especially implementation work). At present, he mainly specializes in the development and research of electronic systems for autonomous driven vehicles. He is currently the solver of a major testbed construction project (budget 7 mil. EUR) with part of Automotive Lab with specific infrastructure for virtual and model based design and testing of modern automotive electronic systems, including the Campus Network, it means polygon with an industrial LTE and 5G network. The testbed complex is a living laboratory for cooperation with the application sphere (project “FEI CPIT TL3 New Technology Platform”, No. CZ.02.2.67 / 0,0 / 0,0 / 16_016 / 0002467, 2017-2022). Assoc. Prof. Dr. Simonik is the solver of a research project focused on the field of industry 4.0 "Platform for research focused on industry 4.0 and robotics in the Ostrava agglomeration" (No. CZ.02.1.01 / 0,0 / 0,0 / 17_049 / 0008425, 2018–2022).