Nikolaus Correll

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Nikolaus Correll
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Born 1977
Munich, Germany
Residence American
Citizenship German
Fields Robotics, Computer Science
Institutions University of Colorado
Alma mater EPFL, ETH
Thesis Coordination Schemes for Distributed Boundary Coverage with a Swarm of Miniature Robots: Synthesis, Analysis and Experimental Validation (2007)
Doctoral advisor Alcherio Martinoli
Other academic advisors Daniela Rus
Notable awards NSF CAREER award, NASA Early Career Faculty Fellowship
Children 4
Website
http://correll.cs.colorado.edu

Nikolaus Correll (born 1977 in Munich, Germany) is a roboticist and an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the Department of Computer Science with courtesy appointments in the departments of Aerospace, Electrical and Materials Engineering.

Biography

Correll obtained a Diploma (Masters) in Electrical Engineering from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. He spent the first two years of his studies at the Technische Hochschule München, participated in the Erasmus Programme to spend a semester at Lunds Tekniska Hogsköla working with Rolf Johansson and wrote his Diploma thesis at Caltech working with Alcherio Martinoli and Joel Burdick.

Correll received his Dr. és science (Phd) degree in Computer Science in 2007 at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) working under Alcherio Martinoli. Correll did a post-doc with Prof. Daniela Rus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He became an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2007.

Correll is the recipient of a 2012 NSF CAREER award[1] as well as a 2012 NASA Early Career Faculty Fellowship.[2] He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Work

Correll's research is on Swarm Robotics, Swarm Intelligence, and Self-organization. He is using these concepts to equip composite materials with intelligence and enabling robots with autonomy,[3] for which he coined the term Robotic Materials.[4]

Correll is also an active researcher in robotics education[5] and is the author of an open-source,[6] collaborative textbook "Introduction to Autonomous Robots".[7]

Correll's work on robotic materials has received wide media attention worldwide including the Associated Press,[8] Neue Zuercher Zeitung,[9] the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,[10] and Popular Science,[11] among others.

Honours

  • Plenary speaker at the Int. Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), 2016.
  • Best Paper Award at the Int. Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) 2006 and 2014.
  • NSF CAREER award 2012
  • NASA Early Career Faculty Fellowship 2012
  • Best Paper Award at the Int. Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB), 2008

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