Saad Nawaz

My focus areas

Bridging industrial practice and academic research in automotive perception systems.

I work as a Senior System Engineer for Radar & Lidar Perception at Audi AG, alongside pursuing a PhD at RWTH Aachen University focused on validating radar perception systems through synthetic edge-case generation.

• Perception systems
  Radar and multi-sensor perception, tracking and classification, and signal processing for automated driving.
• Validation & robustness
  Systematic validation, degradation detection, and robustness assessment beyond mileage-based testing.
• Synthetic data & edge cases
  Synthetic scene generation and controlled rare-event discovery for safety-critical perception evaluation.

Writing

Occasional writing on engineering practice, research methods, and the interaction between technology and society.

• First post: What I’m building here
  2025-12-31
  A short note on what this site is for, and how I plan to use it.

Get in touch

Open to collaboration, research discussion, and speaking invitations.