Anja Simić
Anja Simić is a Functional Safety and Cybersecurity Technical Lead at NIT Institute, a course instructor, and a consultant in the automotive domain. She leads the safeXloop project, developing a reusable functional safety and cybersecurity blueprint for autonomous last-mile shuttle buses, and provides expert consultancy and specialized trainings in these fields.
Anja has five years of experience in automotive software engineering at TTTech Auto, where she worked on projects with OEMs such as Hyundai, Audi, and Porsche. Working with the MotionWise platform and AUTOSAR architecture, she contributed to software architecture and design, safety and cybersecurity requirements, integration, and verification activities, in line with ASPICE.
Her expertise covers ISO 26262, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), and ISO 21434, as well as FMEA, FTA, and STPA, and she is experienced in safety and security reviews, audits, and assessments.
Anja is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, where her research focuses on AI agent-based tools for automating safety and cybersecurity analysis of automotive systems. She holds a professional certificate in functional safety for automotive from the University of California San Diego and a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Novi Sad.
References
- Anja Obradov, Bogdan Pavković, Dimitrije Stojanović, Nenad B. Cetic. “Applying Multi-Agent LLMS to Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment in Automotive Security”. In: 2025 33rd Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR), IEEE, 2025, pp. 1-4. DOI: 10.1109/telfor67910.2025.11314224.
- Anja Obradov, Bogdan Pavković. “Ensuring Compliance of High-Risk AI Systems with the EU AI Act Using Open Source Libraries”. In: 2025 IEEE Zooming Innovation in Consumer Technologies Conference (ZINC), IEEE, 2025, pp. 54-59. DOI: 10.1109/zinc65316.2025.11103517.
- Anja Obradov, Bogdan Pavković. “A tool for detecting memory interference between AUTOSAR software components of different ASIL”. In: 2024 Zooming Innovation in Consumer Technologies Conference (ZINC), IEEE, 2024, pp. 25-30. DOI: 10.1109/zinc61849.2024.10579334.
- Stevan Vulic, Dejan Bogdanovic, Natalija Stanojev, Anja Obradov, Srdjan Usorac, Marija Antić. “A method to improve boot time and application launch on containerized Android on a Linux device”. In: 2021 29th Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR), IEEE, 2021, pp. 1-4. DOI: 10.1109/telfor52709.2021.9653426.
- Anja Obradov, Srdjan Usorac, Marija Antić. “Android runtime service optimization for execution inside LXC”. In: 2021 44th International Convention on Information, Communication and Electronic Technology (MIPRO), IEEE, 2021, pp. 995-997. DOI: 10.23919/mipro52101.2021.9597181.
Courses
NIT-AU-14
Autonomous driving development with Autoware and PixKit
Utilize the most complete autonomous driving open source software stack with a full-size EV/AV hardware vehicle from PixMoving to learn how to develop your own self-driving vehicle!