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Dr. Bastian Blankenburg serves as a Founder & CTO of UTU, bringing more than 20 years of professional and academic experience in distributed AI, multi-agent systems, trust algorithms, and transportation sector technology. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. His thesis: “Coalition Formation among Rational Agents in Uncertain and Untrustworthy Environments” contributed to the field of distributed AI utilizing multi- agent systems. In Industry, he has served as both a Senior Software and Project Engineer for IVU Traffic Technologies, leading software architecture, development, product management, consulting, and training for public transport operators throughout Europe and the Middle East. He previously spent several years at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, exploring negotiations in multi-agent systems.