Professor Siddartha Khastgir is the Head of Safe Autonomy at WMG, University of Warwick.

He leads several collaborative R&D projects with over 100 industrial and academic partners nationally and internationally. His research focuses on AI Safety and proving safety of autonomous transport across land, aviation and marine domains. He has been appointed as a member of the UK Govt’s Department for Transport’s Science Advisory Council.

Siddartha is also the Director of Partners for Automated Vehicle Education United Kingdom (PAVE UK). PAVE UK is the country’s first initiative to deliver inclusive and accurate public awareness and education programmes to enable the public's trust and acceptance of Automated Vehicles.

Siddartha represents the UK on various international standardisation and regulatory committees, including ISO, SAE and United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) on safety of selfdriving vehicles. He has served as the lead author for three ISO standards.

He has received numerous national and international awards for his research contributions, including the prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and a Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list maker.

Prior to joining WMG, Siddartha was with FEV GmbH in Germany, leading automotive software development series production projects. He has a PhD from WMG, University of Warwick and a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur in Mechanical Engineering.