Dr. Marc Zeller


Siemens Mobility GmbH
Munich, Germany

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I am a Senior Key Expert for Model-based Reliability and Safety Engineering at Siemens Mobility in Munich. Before joining Siemens Mobility in 2025, I spent more than eleven years at Siemens Foundational Technologies. I led the Model-based Reliability and Safety Engineering team and co-led Siemens' “Engineering and Validation of Intelligent Systems” research program. My research focuses on safety assurance for AI- and machine-learning-based systems, continuous safety assessment, and model-based analysis of complex systems. I led the publicly funded safe.trAIn project on the assurance of machine-learning-based perception systems and have contributed to 49 patent applications in safety analysis and AI assurance.

From 2023 to 2026, I was a lecturer at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, teaching “Safe and Robust Autonomous Systems” and “AI in Safety-Critical Applications”. Earlier, I worked as a research scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Embedded Systems and Communication Technology, leading projects in automotive software engineering and distributed software functions.

I hold a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Augsburg (2013, magna cum laude) and a diploma in Computer Science from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (2007).

Contribution on GitHub

https://github.com/Digital-Dependability-Identities
https://github.com/panorama-research/mobstr-dataset

Publications

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Patents

  1. Method and apparatus for automatically generating a component fault tree of a safety-critical system; US-10061670-B2
  2. Automated qualification of a safety critical system; US-10241852-B2
  3. Safety assurance using fault trees for identifying dormant system failure states; EP-3416013-B1
  4. Method and apparatus for providing a safe operation of a technical system; US-10372848-B2
  5. Method and apparatus for generating a fault tree for a failure mode of a multi-mode system; US-10481989-B2
  6. Method and apparatus for a computer-based generation of component fault trees; US-10572331-B2
  7. Ring-closures in fault trees; EP-3570130-B1
  8. Computerimplementiertes verfahren und vorrichtung zur auflösung von geschlossenen schleifen bei der automatischen fehlerbaumanalyse eines mehrkomponentensystems; EP-3579074-B1
  9. Method and apparatus for automated hazard detection; US-11079749-B2
  10. Method for analyzing a physical system architecture of a safety-critical system; EP-3483753-B1
  11. Markov chains and component fault trees for modelling technical systems; US-11204601-B2
  12. System and method for controlling power grid connection of power consumption entity using an analytical artifact; US-11755401-B2
  13. Method for analyzing a physical system architecture of a safety-critical system; US-11507483-B2
  14. Method for identifying and evaluating common cause failures of system components; US-11567823-B2
  15. Control method and device that resolves closed loops in automatic fault tree analysis of a multi-component system; US-11853048-B2
  16. Method of modeling a component fault tree for an electric circuit; US-11900034-B2
  17. Verfahren und vorrichtung zum überprüfen eines komponentenfehlerbaums; EP-3173928-A1
  18. Method for determining at least one characteristic of at least a change; EP-3647943-B1
  19. System and method for safety analysis of failure behavior; US-11379634-B2
  20. Computer-implemented method for generating a mixed-layer fault tree of a multi-component system combining different layers of abstraction; US-11347919-B2
  21. Ring-closures in fault trees and normalized representation; WO-2021009039-A1
  22. Emergente risiken eines technischen systems; WO-2021028209-A1
  23. Operational safety using a distributed ledger; EP-3771139-B1
  24. Controlling an operation of a technical system automatically; EP-3961336-B1
  25. Computer-implemented method for generating a component fault and deficiency tree of a multi-component system comprising a plurality of components; US-11899556-B2