Since 1992 he is professor of Vehicular Systems holding the Sten Gustafsson chair at Linköping University.
Lars Nielsen main research interests are in automotive modeling, control, and diagnosis.
Lars Nielsen, Mikael Askerdal, Fredrik Bruzelius, Carl Emvin, Lars Eriksson, Mattias Hjort, Bengt Jacobson, Mats Jonasson, Sogol Kharrazi, 
Rolling Resistance for a Vehicle when Driving Up and Down a Road Gradient, Proceedings of 17th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control (AVEC’26) 7-11 September 2026, Tsukuba, Japan, Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Inc. (2026)
Victor Fors, Björn Olofsson, Lars Nielsen, J. Christian Gerdes, Experimental Validation of Wary Control with Stationary Obstacle, Proceedings of 17th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control (AVEC’26) 7-11 September 2026, Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Inc. (2026)
Lars Nielsen, Architectures for Emergency Actions in Autonomous Driving Not Using Friction Knowledge, ADVANCES IN DYNAMICS OF VEHICLES ON ROADS AND TRACKS III, VOL 2, IAVSD 2023, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG (2024) 
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66968-2_1
Jian Zhou, Arvind Balachandran, Björn Olofsson, Lars Nielsen, Erik Frisk, Homotopic Optimization for Autonomous Vehicle Maneuvering, 2024 35TH IEEE INTELLIGENT VEHICLES SYMPOSIUM, IEEE IV 2024, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, pp. 2561-2568, IEEE (2024) https://doi.org/10.1109/IV55156.2024.10588609
Oskar Lind Jonsson, Arvind Balachandran, Jian Zhou, Björn Olofsson, Lars Nielsen, Investigating Characteristics and Opportunities for Rear-Wheel Steering, Proceedings of AVEC’24 – Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Giampiero Mastinu, Francesco Braghin, Federico Cheli, Matteo Corno, Sergio M. Savaresi (eds.), Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, pp. 151-157 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70392-8_22
