Sushant Veer  

 



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 I am a Research Scientist with the Autonomous Vehicle Research Group at NVIDIA Research. Broadly, my research interests lie in ensuring the safety of complex autonomous robotic systems. I am currently interested in improving the safety of autonomous vehicles by equipping them with the ability to detect and safely address edge cases that lie beyond the operational design domain.

I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Princeton University and received my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 2018 and a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2013. In the past, I have worked on providing performance guarantees for learning-based motion planners, safe planning and control of dynamic legged robots, and the development of assistive biomechanical devices.



   Research Area(s)

[Autonomous Vehicles](/index.php/research-area/autonomous-vehicles)

[Resilience and Safety](/index.php/research-area/resilience)

[Robotics](/index.php/research-area/robotics)

 

 

  

 Main Field of Interest

[Autonomous Vehicles](/index.php/research-area/autonomous-vehicles)

 

  

 Google Scholar

[https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=1FiIlQsAAAAJ](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=1FiIlQsAAAAJ)

 

  

 

 

 



 ### Publications

 

### 2025 

[Sim2Val: Leveraging Correlation Across Test Platforms for Variance-Reduced Metric Estimation](/publication/2025-09_sim2val-leveraging-correlation-across-test-platforms-variance-reduced-metric)

[Rachel Luo](/person/rachel-luo), [Heng Yang](/person/heng-yang), [Michael Watson](/person/michael-watson), [Apoorva Sharma](/person/apoorva-sharma), [Sushant Veer](/person/sushant-veer), Edward Schmerling, [Marco Pavone](/person/marco-pavone)













### 2023 

[PAC-Bayes Generalization Certificates for Learned Inductive Conformal Prediction](/publication/2023-12_pac-bayes-generalization-certificates-learned-inductive-conformal-prediction)

[Apoorva Sharma](/person/apoorva-sharma), [Sushant Veer](/person/sushant-veer), Asher Hancock, Heng Yang, [Marco Pavone](/person/marco-pavone), Anirudha Majumdar



[Arxiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04658)









[Task-Aware Risk Estimation of Perception Failures for Autonomous Vehicles](/publication/2023-07_task-aware-risk-estimation-perception-failures-autonomous-vehicles)

Pasquale Antonante, [Sushant Veer](/person/sushant-veer), [Karen Leung](/person/karen-leung), [Xinshuo Weng](/person/xinshuo-weng), Luca Carlone, [Marco Pavone](/person/marco-pavone)



[Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2023](https://roboticsconference.org/)









[Learning Autonomous Vehicle Safety Concepts from Demonstrations](/publication/2023-05_learning-autonomous-vehicle-safety-concepts-demonstrations)

[Karen Leung](/person/karen-leung), [Sushant Veer](/person/sushant-veer), [Edward Schmerling](/person/ed-schmerling), [Marco Pavone](/person/marco-pavone)



[American Control Conference (ACC) 2023](https://acc2023.a2c2.org/)









[Receding Horizon Planning with Rule Hierarchies for Autonomous Vehicles](/index.php/publication/2023-05_receding-horizon-planning-rule-hierarchies-autonomous-vehicles)

[Sushant Veer](/index.php/person/sushant-veer), [Karen Leung](/index.php/person/karen-leung), Ryan Cosner, [Yuxiao Chen](/index.php/person/yuxiao-chen), [Marco Pavone](/index.php/person/marco-pavone)



[IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023](https://www.icra2023.org/)









[Guided Conditional Diffusion for Controllable Traffic Simulation](/publication/2023-05_guided-conditional-diffusion-controllable-traffic-simulation)

Ziyuan Zhong, Davis Rempe, [Danfei Xu](/person/danfei-xu), [Yuxiao Chen](/person/yuxiao-chen), [Sushant Veer](/person/sushant-veer), [Gerry Che](/person/gerry-che), Baishakhi Ray, [Marco Pavone](/person/marco-pavone)



[IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023](https://www.icra2023.org/)









[Task-Aware Risk Estimation of Perception Failures for Autonomous Vehicles](/publication/2023-05_task-aware-risk-estimation-perception-failures-autonomous-vehicles)

Pasquale Antonante, [Sushant Veer](/person/sushant-veer), [Karen Leung](/person/karen-leung), [Xinshuo Weng](/person/xinshuo-weng), Luca Carlone, [Marco Pavone](/person/marco-pavone)



[Arxiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01870)









### 2022 

[Task-Relevant Failure Detection for Trajectory Predictors in Autonomous Vehicles](/index.php/publication/2022-12_task-relevant-failure-detection-trajectory-predictors-autonomous-vehicles)

Alec Farid, [Sushant Veer](/index.php/person/sushant-veer), [Boris Ivanovic](/index.php/person/boris-ivanovic), [Karen Leung](/index.php/person/karen-leung), [Marco Pavone](/index.php/person/marco-pavone)



[Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2022](https://corl2022.org/)









[Multi-Predictor Fusion: Combining Learning-based and Rule-based Trajectory Predictors](/publication/_multi-predictor-fusion-combining-learning-based-and-rule-based-trajectory-predictors)

[Sushant Veer](/person/sushant-veer), [Apoorva Sharma](/person/apoorva-sharma), [Marco Pavone](/person/marco-pavone)



[Arxiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01408)