Summit Speaker

Dr. Paramsothy Jayakumar is a Senior Technical Expert in Analytics at U.S. Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC). Prior to joining GVSC, he worked at Ford Motor Company and BAE Systems. Dr. Jayakumar is a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is also an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Autonomous Vehicles and Systems, and Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Vehicle Performance and the ISTVS Journal of Terramechanics. He led a NATO S&T Team that developed the Next-Generation NATO Reference Mobility Model (NG-NRMM) which has now been made the NATO and the U.S. Army Standard.

Dr. Jayakumar has received the DoD Laboratory Scientist of the Quarter Award, NATO Applied Vehicle Technology Panel Excellence Awards, SAE Arch T. Colwell Cooperative Engineering Medal, SAE James M. Crawford Technical Standards Board Outstanding Achievement Award, BAE Systems Chairman's Award, and NDIA GVSETS Best Paper Awards. He has published over 250 papers in peer-reviewed literature. Dr. Jayakumar received his M.S. and Ph.D. from Caltech, and B.Sc. Eng. (Hons, First Class) from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.