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PhD student scoops top young engineer award
One of our PhD students, Siddartha Khastgir, has been declared the UK鈥檚 leading engineer under 30 at last night鈥檚 .
The awards celebrate the year鈥檚 key electronics innovations, people and companies from across the UK and Ireland. While these are the inaugural TechWorks Awards, they follow on from the NMI Awards, which ran from 2001 to 2016.
Siddartha was presented with his award by the BBC鈥檚 technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones, who said the 鈥渜uality of the field was outstanding.
鈥淪iddartha鈥檚 personal skill set, work effort and initiative are making a big difference to WMG. Whilst still at an early stage in his career, he is already recognised widely, and internationally.鈥�
Siddartha said: 鈥淚t is indeed a great honour to receive such a prestigious award and I would like to thank TechWorks. While the award is testimony for my work in the Deep Tech industry, I believe it is also a recognition for the mentorship and guidance I have received. I would like to thank and everyone at WMG for their continued support.鈥�
A full list of winners can be found .
About TechWorks
TechWorks is the new UK Industry Association for 鈥楧eep Tech鈥�; the underpinning technologies such as AI, robotics, 5G, machine vision, IoT, analytics and automation that drive the new economy.
Technology innovation has changed and is changing our world at an enormous rate creating new opportunities across all areas of industry and commerce. With this whirlwind of change comes huge political and societal changes, disrupting the established norms in all walks of life.
TechWorks is a new type of industry association at the core of the UK deep tech community with an ambition to harness our fantastic engineering and innovation to develop the UK鈥檚 position as a global technology superpower.
TechWorks operates beyond established silos by:
- Creating dynamic, connected technical and business communities
to empower innovation and collaboration, supporting business growth and
investment - Identifying the critical common challenges and leading responses
to tackle them - Developing the UK tech ecosystem and partnerships across
industry, academia and government to ensure the UK is amongst the best
location globally to start, build and scale a Deep Tech organisation