Paramsothy Jayakumar

Paramsothy Jayakumar received the B.Sc.Eng. degree (Hons.) from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Caltech. He worked at Ford Motor Company and BAE Systems. He is a Senior Technical Expert of analytics with U.S. Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC). He has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed literatures. He is a fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He received the DoD Laboratory Scientist of the Quarter Award, the NATO Applied Vehicle Technology Panel Excellence Awards, the SAE Arch T. Colwell Cooperative Engineering Medal, the SAE James M. Crawford Technical Standards Board Outstanding Achievement Award, the BAE Systems Chairman’s Award, and the NDIA GVSETS Best Paper Awards. He is also an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Autonomous Vehicles and Systems, and the Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Vehicle Performance and the Journal of Terramechanics.