Engineering Systems
Scott Bogard
Lead Research Engineer
Mark Gilbert
Lead Electronics Engineer
Dan Huddleson
Senior Electronic Technician
Steve Karamihas
Visiting Researcher
Nicholas Krueger
Research Technician
Arpan Kusari
Assistant Research Scientist
David J. LeBlanc
Associate Research Scientist
Bernard Puroll
Applications Programmer, Analyst Senior
Michelle Rasulis
Software Engineer Lead
Efe Yamac Yarbasi
Assistant Research Scientist
Evolving, adapting and leader into the future.
Established in the 1960’s, the Engineering Systems team is one of UMTRI’s original research groups, evolving and adapting from early work in vehicle dynamics to advanced control systems, shifting from single-vehicle studies to cooperative vehicle and infrastructure systems, and transitioning from hardware-focused projects to networked and systems-based development and evaluation.
The team leads research in connected and automated vehicles, driver assistance systems, traffic control and modeling, vehicle and infrastructure cybersecurity, vehicle-road interaction, road roughness profiling, and heavy vehicle suspensions and dynamics. In addition, they manage UMTRI’s naturalistic driving databases, data acquisition and experimental systems, and a variety of specialized laboratories.
The team collaborates extensively within UMTRI, across other University of Michigan units, and through national and international partnerships. Recent sponsors include NHTSA, FHWA, US DOE, US DHS, NIST, U.S. Army, GM, Ford, Honda, Toyota, FCA, Hyundai-Kia, CAMP, and others.