# Aditya B. > Safety | Autonomy | Mobility | Electric Global Occupant Protection and Biomechanics Research Lead, Automated Driving Systems, Passive & Active Safety @ Tesla Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/adityab As a biomechanics expert and crash and safety engineer at Tesla, I apply my extensive knowledge and experience in occupant injury mechanics, protection techniques, vehicle crashworthiness, and restraint systems to design and test innovative solutions for enhancing occupant protection and safety in highly automated vehicles. With over 10 years of experience in the auto and research industry, I have a strong background in biomechanics, bioengineering, mechanical engineering, and AI, as well as a management degree from Wharton Business School. Some of my notable achievements include co-founding a company on personalized medicine and safety, developing CPR guidelines for pediatric subjects, establishing rear seat injury tolerances for IIHS small-overlap crash, developing the first full-body adult finite element human model, and setting up the first India-Japan technical collaboration for Toyota Motor Company. I have also contributed to the development of IIHS rear seat safety standards, low-speed occupant tolerances, material models and limits for aortic injury and knee airbags, and drone/aviation safety risk analysis. Media outlets have quoted me for my expertise and have co-organized the SAE World Congress Occupant Restraints Session for over 12 years. ## Work Experience ### Global Occupant Protection and Biomechanics Lead @ Tesla Jan 2023 – Present ### Staff Analysis Engineer @ Tesla Jan 2022 – Present ### Global Child Occupant Protection Lead @ Tesla Jan 2019 – Present ### Senior Analysis Engineer @ Tesla Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 ### SAE World Congress - Occupant Restraints Committee Co-Chair @ SAE International Jan 2011 – Jan 2022 Help co-organize the SAE World Congress 20XX Occupant Restraints Session - curating content based on abstracts on restraint system, design , development, modeling, testing and evaluation. Content is made available to the 10,000+ audience across the globe! ### Chair, Annual Scientific Program Sub-Committee @ ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF AUTOMOTIVE MEDICINE INC Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 ### Automated Vehicles Special Interest Group (AVSIG) Chair @ ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF AUTOMOTIVE MEDICINE INC Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | United States The Automated Vehicle Special Interest Group (AVSIG) is a community within the larger AAAM organization with a shared interest in advancing a specific area of knowledge, safety, learning, or technology around highly automated vehicles and mobility solutions. This year at the 2019 meeting, the AVSIG organized a 90-minute session consisting of panelist presentations (experts from industry and academia) followed by audience Q&A focusing on - Safety in Highly Automated Vehicles ### Senior Scientist and Lead @ Center for Injury Research and Prevention Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Traffic Safety Lead and Research Scientist Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), PA Computational Modeling, vehicle, adult and pediatric occupant safety, occupant detection, driver distraction and human machine interfaces, large scale data analysis • Advanced computational/finite element modeling, crash models/FMVSS for occupant and vehicle optimization- utilizing a slew of ATD (Hybrid III, THOR, Q series) models and HBM not limited to - THUMS, GHBMC, 10YO CHARM, 6YO PIPER • Direct and lead a team of over 15+ engineers, technicians, data scientists and analysts • Defined scope, goals, and deliverables to ensure consistency with company strategy & goals • Collaborated with clients/stakeholders in on-shore & off-shores with budget of over US$15MIL • Lead project manager in product development, testing and validation, risk assessment, and optimize production efficiency of multiple project lines. • Regulatory and technical expert on automotive system standards/urban mobility for crash and overall safety strategy; across US, Europe and Asia teams • Developing Safety protocols, creating and establishing guidelines for product development and usability as per regulations and strategies ### User Experience (Ux) Traffic/Mobility Safety Thrust Lead @ Center for Injury Research and Prevention Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 User Experience, Human machine interface, Product evaluation & development, Meta-analysis • Designing and designing systems for SAE autonomous levels 3, 4, and 5 • Take over scenarios from auto-pilot to manual and vice-versa • Large-scale consumer product design, development and deployment for the shared mobility platform – developed portable child seats for Uber/Lyft/Transportation-as-a-Service (TaaS) • Worked with large scale product development, safety protocols regarding design, testing, manufacturing, scaling, deployment, service and usability • Comparison & assessment of real-world applications (apps) for head-way distance/warnings • Evaluating the efficacy of child seat installation in a large focus group with volunteer subjects ### Research Scientist @ Center for Injury Research and Prevention Jan 2013 – Jan 2019 Research Scientist I and II Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), PA CAE analysis through various engineering pre and post processing software tools such as Hypermesh, Hypercrash, Hyperview, LS-DYNA, RADIOSS, MADYMO in order to evaluate occupant kinematics and biomechanical responses during a crash event, providing recommendations based on the interpretation of the analysis results. • Analysis of IARV, and injury criterion, via NASS-CDS, NASS-GES, CIREN, FARS and CRSS datasets – assessment of broad injury/safety trends via NHTSA/open-source datasets • Developing new analytical procedures to enhance occupant protection/reduce hardware testing • Enhancing current standard analytical procedures to improve model accuracy and improve execution speed with primary focus on occupant safety • Works with a team of safety engineers to insure that newly introduced products and vehicles comply with the pre-set safety targets as set by the U.S. government • Analysis of Occupant Restraint Systems such as Airbags and Seatbelts through CAE/Sled • Perform correlation of Occupant Kinematics between test and CAE • Conduct Full Vehicle CAE simulations according to U.S. Safety Regulations /FMVSS • Conceived, designed, developed, prototyped and mass-produced safety product in 6-months • Designed and lead small and large teams for motion tracking and analyses; computational modeling, crashworthiness and occupant safety, accident reconstruction & design optimization • Implemented companywide computational modeling algorithms for product and traffic safety ### Postdoctoral Research Fellow @ University of Pennsylvania Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | The Center for Injury Reserch and Prevention 1) Developed pediatric Cardio Pulmonary Compression (CPR) guidelines for chest compression - collaboration with the American Heart Association (AHA) 2) Built the first Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) compatible chest compression device for CPR 3) Worked on techniques of FNIRS and EEG for neuroimaging ### Director and Co-Founder @ Aroga Zuna Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 1) Co-founder and Director of Product and Safety 2) Developed the first patient centric, patient specific hip implant 3) Customized from ground-up based on scanning/morphing and 3D printing - "3D printing is Hip" ### Lab Manager and Research Assistant @ Advanced Human Modeling Laboratory - Wayne State University Jan 2003 – Jan 2011 • Developed the first adult 50th percentile human body finite element model with detailed internal organs and functioning musculature in LS-DYNA • Spinal mechanics, knee airbags, and optimization of vehicle compartment during various IIHS, NCAP and FMVSS crash modes • Rollover, side, frontal and rear impact crash mitigation • Developed and deployed 3D CAD modeling, rapid prototyping, LENS (Laser Engineered Net Shaping) using Shape memory alloys; novel to the field, never done before! ### Research Engineer @ Takata Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 • Instrumental in developing the 1st version of Takata’s Human Body Model for automotive safety • Seatbelt, airbag/pretensioner modeling for implementing safety regulations • Worked in small-teams for quick product development; testing to firing to installation in the vehicle ### Product Design Engineer @ Toyota Kirloskar Motor Jan 2003 – Jan 2003 • Developed the first product design and development core team for Toyota Motor via a Japan-India collaboration consisting of 10+ engineers • Design and development of manual and automatic drive-train transmissions, chassis/axle/suspension design, regulatory compliance • Rigorous product testing, evaluations and on-road drive train testing ## Education ### Wharton's Aresty Institute of Executive Education in General Management Program The Wharton School Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 ### Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomechanics University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 ### PhD in Biomedical Engineering Wayne State University Jan 2006 – Jan 2011 ### Two Masters (M.S.) in Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Wayne State University Jan 2003 – Jan 2006 ### B.S. in Mechanical Engineering RV College Of Engineering ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityabelwadi --- Source: https://flows.cv/adityab JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/adityab/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07