Daniel Meissner was born in 1984 in Ansbach, Germany. He received a Diploma degree (equivalent to M.Sc. degree) in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), München, Germany, in 2009, and the Dr.-Ing. degree (equivalent to Ph.D.) in 2015 from Ulm University, Ulm, Germany. In 2014, he joined the BMW Group as a developer for driver assistance systems. In 2021, he became the Chief Engineer for object and freespace detection.