Hemant Chaudhary

Hemant Chaudhary is a mechanical and controls engineer who currently works for Skyfront. Hemant has previous experience working for Volkswagen of America, Inc, Ford Motor Company, and General Motors. In their current position, Hemant works alongside Volkswagen to help model and program a lane-keeping algorithm for a four-wheeled vehicle called Niki that could traverse on non-ideal, off-road environments such as icy roads, while ensuring safety of the passenger at all times. Hemant modeled Niki using the Dynamic Bicycle Model, computed the Understeer Gradient assuming Steady-state cornering and implemented a Look-Ahead controller for Lateral Control and a Longitudinal controller for Speed Control while using a Coupled-Tire model to analyze tire behavior after saturation before eventually simulating the entire model on MATLAB. Hemant was able to successfully implement this controller on Niki, obtaining industry-level performance and publishing these results on a paper. Prior to their work with Skyfront, Hemant worked as a mechanical and controls engineer for both Ford Motor Company and General Motors. During their time with Ford, Hemant worked on developing models that would be used in autonomous vehicles. While at General Motors, Hemant worked on electric and hybrid vehicle projects. Hemant's experience with autonomous and electric vehicles led to him being selected as an intern lead at NASA's Ames Research Center. There, they worked on developing algorithms that could be used in autonomous flying cars.

Hemant Chaudhary has a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

They work with Brian Maxwell - VP of BD, Joseph Segura-Conn - Head of Operations. Hemant Chaudhary reports to Troy Mestler, CEO.