About the Lab — autoMoTIVe-X

Dr. Shrikant Tangade

Prof., AMBIT, Belagavi
MSCA Seal of Excellence Fellow, Inria
Member, IEEE VTS Bangalore Chapter

A decade of research spanning three countries, one continuous thread: making vehicular systems provably trustworthy.

The Director's Journey

Elite scientific excellence, decade in the making.

Led by Dr. Shrikant Tangade, the autoMoTIVe-X Lab is a world-class research hub dedicated to vehicular cybersecurity. His journey reflects a decade of elite scientific excellence across three of Europe and India's strongest security research communities.

MSCA Seal of Excellence Fellow

Inria, Lille, France — Researching Security & Privacy in Common Mobility Data Spaces, with a project evaluated at 88/100 by the European Commission's review panel.

Team SERENDIPITY

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Padova, Italy — Working under the mentorship of Prof. Mauro Conti within the SPRITZ Security & Privacy Research Group.

SPRITZ Research Group

Academic Leader

AMBIT, Belagavi, India — Currently serving as Professor and a key member of the IEEE VTS Bangalore Chapter, connecting the lab to India's automotive and standards ecosystem.

IEEE VTS Bangalore

Lab Philosophy

Security can't be a software-only patch.

At autoMoTIVe-X, we believe cybersecurity in the SDV era has to start below the software stack. We use silicon-sourced entropy and Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) to build an end-to-end security architecture that is:

Stateless

No secrets to steal.

Removing persistent keys from vulnerable flash memory, so there's nothing sitting in storage for an attacker to physically extract.

Sovereign

Integrity, end to end.

Ensuring data integrity from the Zonal Controller all the way to the Cloud, with no trusted intermediary that can quietly rewrite history.

Post-Quantum

Ready for tomorrow.

Preparing the vehicle fleet for tomorrow's cryptographic threats, well before quantum computing makes today's assumptions obsolete.

Global Network

Active collaborations, three research cultures.

Inria — France

The SERENDIPITY Team, focused on data-space security and privacy for connected mobility.

Padova — Italy

The University of Padova, home of the SPRITZ Security & Privacy Research Group.

IEEE VTS

The global IEEE Vehicular Technology Society standards community.

Our Team

The people behind the research.

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Team Member

Bridging European Sciencewith Global Industry.