Dr. Arpan Kusari

Assistant Research Scientist, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

Dr. Arpan Kusari is a research faculty at University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) specializing in systemic issues of robustness in autonomous vehicles (AV). In this role, he has been working with federal sponsors such as National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and corporate sponsors such as Ford Motor Company, Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) and Subaru Motor Company to name a few. His team works on analyzing robustness issues arising in the sensing, perception and decision-making sub-systems from a regulatory standpoint and providing practical and scalable solutions. Dr. Kusari has been selected as a winner of Best Poster Award at AAAI-2026, one of the winners of the U.S.D.O.T. Safety Intersection Challenge and the winner of the TRB Data Forecasting Challenge 2022. Previously, at Ford Motor Company, he worked as a research engineer on developing model-based solutions for mapping, localization, behavioral prediction etc.

Devesh Upadhyay

Chief Technology Officer, Saab

Devesh drives all AI in Defense activities at Saab