Mr. Krishna Teja Medam

Vehicle Cybersecurity Architect Excellence | International Motors LLC

Securing Learning-Enabled Motion Control in Software-Defined Vehicles

As software-defined and highly overactuated electric vehicles adopt learning-enabled components for estimation and motion control, they unlock significant performance gains—but also introduce new integrity risks. This talk explores how adversarial inputs, compromised sensors, or manipulated model updates can quietly propagate through centralized SDV architectures and impact vehicle stability, control allocation, and actuator coordination. Taking both an architectural and control perspective, the session examines how learning-based modules reshape the cyber-physical attack surface of safety-critical chassis systems. Practical overactuated vehicle examples illustrate how even bounded disturbances in learned components can influence yaw dynamics and closed-loop behavior. The discussion concludes with a layered resilience approach that combines architectural safeguards, model integrity validation, control-aware anomaly detection, and runtime safety enforcement. The goal is to enable intelligent, learning-driven motion control while preserving stability, predictability, and trust in next-generation vehicles.

Bio

Krishna is a Vehicle Cybersecurity Architect at International Motors LLC, with experience in the design and integration of cybersecurity mechanisms for modern vehicle platforms. A CASE-certified professional, Krishna specializes in security concept development, Threat Analysis and Risk Assessments (TARAs), and the translation of cybersecurity objectives into system and vehicle-level requirements. Krishna collaborates closely with cross-functional teams across engineering, testing, manufacturing, certification, compliance, service, aftersales, and IT to embed cybersecurity throughout the vehicle lifecycle, while actively engaging with suppliers, facilitating Design Interface Agreements (DIAs), and contributing to incident response efforts. Krishna is an active participant in the SAE J1939-91B standards committee and has served as a panelist at SAE COMVEC. He focuses on secure vehicle architectures, risk-driven security engineering, and resilient system design for next-generation software-defined vehicles.