NATO AVT Panel bestows Dr. Paramsothy Jayakumar with Excellence Award

The NATO Applied Vehicle Technology (AVT) Panel bestowed their Excellence Award (Fall 2021) on Dr. Paramsothy Jayakumar, a long-standing contributor to the ARC.

The citation reads:

Your contribution to the AVT Program of Work has been outstanding; and in particular, your continuous commitment in advancing NATO Mobility Model by developing methods and tools that are the underpinning enablers for mobility performance assessments for current and future military ground systems. As highly respected expert in the field of mobility and vehicle dynamics modelling and simulation, our active contribution to the AVT community in numerous activities as Co-Chair was greatly appreciated. In addition to your technical acumen, your professionalism, dedication, and leadership during your long-standing tenure substantially contributed to the NATO S&T mission. You directly helped leverage the effort of individual nations to obtain top quality scientific results causing the transfer of knowledge for the best of the Alliance. Without any doubt, your engagement was considered to be excellent.

Dr. Jayakumar is integral to many ARC project research teams, as well as serving as an ARC Executive Committee member.