Sagar Behere leads mechatronics architecture and systems engineering at Zoox Labs Inc., California. He also conducts doctoral research at KTH The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden with a prior Master degree in Systems, Control, and Robotics. Sagar has experience in the engineering of complex, safety critical autonomous systems, especially in the automotive domain. His doctoral research combines theories from the domains of industrial mechatronics, artificial intelligence, and machine consciousness to create architectures for applied machine intelligence.