Jamie Shotton is Chief Scientist at Wayve, a London-based autonomous driving company pioneering embodied AI technology to power self-driving vehicles. He leads Wayve's Science department, guiding research teams to unlock breakthroughs in foundation models like GAIA and LINGO for safe and adaptable autonomous vehicles.

Jamie earned his PhD in computer vision from the University of Cambridge and spent 13 years at Microsoft as Partner Director of Science, where he led the Mixed Reality and AI Labs across Cambridge, Zurich, and Belgrade. He shipped foundational features for Kinect's body tracking and HoloLens 2's hand and eye tracking that enable instinctual interaction.

Jamie was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2021 and received the prestigious Longuet-Higgins Prize at CVPR 2021. He has received multiple Best Paper and Best Demo awards at top academic conferences, plus the MacRobert Award in 2011, PAMI Young Researcher Award in 2014, and MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 Award in 2015.

Jamie joined Wayve as Chief Scientist in September 2021, bringing expertise in applied AI research spanning 20 years. His work explores applications of AI in autonomous driving, mixed reality, virtual presence, human-computer interaction, gaming, robotics, and healthcare.

Under Jamie's scientific leadership, Wayve has raised over $1.5 billion and achieved an $8.6 billion valuation, becoming one of Europe's most valuable AI startups. Wayve became the first AV developer to drive zero-shot in more than 500 cities across Europe, North America, and Japan, with commercial robotaxi trials launching in London in 2026.