Dr. Ahmad MK Nasser

Dr. Ahmad MK Nasser is an automotive cybersecurity architect with over 25 years of experience in securing safety-critical systems. He started his career as a software engineer, building automotive network drivers, diagnostics protocols, and flash programming solutions. This naturally led him into the field of automotive cybersecurity, where he designed secure firmware solutions for various microcontrollers and SoCs, defined secure hardware and software architectures of embedded systems, and performed threat analysis of numerous vehicle architectures, ECUs, and smart sensors. His latest work is on securing software in High Performance Computers (HPCs) for software defined vehicles. Ahmad holds a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Wayne State University, as well as a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Michigan in Dearborn. He is currently a senior manager and the lead security architect of DriveOS, NVIDIA's autonomous driving software platform.