Safe Autonomy Research Team
Meet our team
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Prof Paul Jennings
Pro-Dean Research
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
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Prof Siddartha Khastgir
Professor (Research Focused) & Head of Safe Autonomy
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
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Xingyu Zhao
Assistant Professor (AI Safety)
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
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Jason Xizhe Zhang
Principal Engineer- Simulation Lead
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
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Pete Baker
Project Engineer- Simulation Developer
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
Fadi Alakkad
Lead Engineer- Software Architect
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
Jerein Jeyachandran
Project Engineer - Scenario Generation
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
Amitha Irshad
Project Engineer - Scenario Generation
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
Tudor Dodoiu
Project Engineer- Human Factors & Languages
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
Mahsa Mohsenbeigi
Project Engineer - Software Developer
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
Emil Chodowiec
Project Engineer- Simulation Developer
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
Joe Mitchell
Graduate Engineer- Simulation Developer
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
Antonio Bruto da Costa
Principal Engineer- Scenario
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
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Patrick Ivrine
Project Engineer- Concept Development
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
Hamid Serry
Graduate Engineer- Language Developer
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
Guild Bruce
Project Engineer- Software Developer
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
Mariat James Elizebeth
Lead Engineer- System Safety
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
Halima El Badaoui
Project Engineer
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
Jonathan Smith
Principal Engineer & PAVE UK Head of Operations
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
Katie Bruce
Project Manager
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
Shufeng Chen
Lead Engineer-System Safety
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
Gabbie Lau
Marketing and Communications Officer
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
Renee Crouch
Project Administrator
National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC)
Danial Safaei
PhD Candidate
Research area:
Generative AI for scenario generation
Debo Shopade
PhD Candidate
Zhi Wang
PhD Candidate
Research area:
Model-based safety analysis (V&V).
Yi Zhang
PhD Candidate
Research areas:
Trustworthy Generative Models, Text-to-Image Diffusion Model, Robustness, AI Safety
Eric Chiu
PhD Candidate
Research areas:
AI safety and regulatory governance
Andy Birkett
EngD Candidate
Research areas:
Safety of AI systems for Safety Critical-Applications
Yuhang Chen
PhD Candidate
Research area:
Fidelity of Synthetic Data and Assured Perception for Autonomous Vehicles
