Ken Laberteaux

Ken Laberteaux, senior principal scientist for the Toyota Research Institute-North America, has worked as a researcher in the automotive and telecommunication industries for nineteen years. 

Dr. Laberteaux’s current research focus is sustainable mobility systems, including grid-vehicle interactions, vehicle electrification feasibility, security and privacy issues of smart grid, battery lifetime modeling, and United States urbanization and transportation patterns.

Earlier in his time at Toyota, Dr. Laberteaux worked on advanced safety systems, leveraging synergies in communication, sensing, and computation. Credited with coining the term VANET, he was a founder and two-year (2004, 2005) general co-chair of the VehiculAr Inter-NETworking (VANET) workshop.

Before joining Toyota in 2002, Dr. Laberteaux spent ten years as a researcher at the Tellabs Research Center, working on echo cancellation, data networking protocols, call admission control, and congestion control. 

While working full-time at Tellabs, Dr. Laberteaux completed his M.S. (1996) and Ph.D. (2000) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, focusing on adaptive control for communications. In 1992, he received his B.S.E., in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Laberteaux has produced twenty-five scholarly publications and eleven patents.