Hemanth Tadepalli is a 2023 graduate of Kettering University, where he won the Sobey Scholar Award and the President’s Medal, two of the school’s most prestigious honors. In the most recent Horsepower to Hyperloops episode, we discuss how an undergraduate Co-op program, like Kettering’s, can be a dramatic career jumpstart. We also talk about the critical role of cybersecurity in the coming age of autonomous vehicles.

Hemanth is a cybersecurity compliance engineer at May Mobility, a top autonomous vehicle company in Michigan. In addition to being at the forefront of two cutting edge technologies, he is also pursuing his masters in cybersecurity at UC Berkeley. In his spare time (if you can believe it) he plays the viola in the Troy Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.