Nikolaus Correll

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Nikolaus Correll
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Born1977
Munich, Germany
CitizenshipGerman
Alma mater EPFL, ETH
Children4
AwardsNSF CAREER award, NASA Early Career Faculty Fellowship
Scientific career
Fields Robotics, Computer Science
Institutions University of Colorado
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
Website http://correll.cs.colorado.edu

Nikolaus Correll (born 1977 in Munich, Germany) is a roboticist and an associate 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. Nikolaus is the faculty director of the Interdisciplinary Research Theme on Multi-functional Materials at the College of Engineering and Applied Science, and the founder and CTO of Robotic Materials Inc.

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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 2009, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure [1] in 2017.

Correll is the recipient of a 2012 NSF CAREER award, [2] the 2012 NASA Early Career Faculty Fellowship, [3] and a 2016 Provost Faculty Achievement Award. [4] 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, [5] for which he coined the term Robotic Materials [6] and founded a company of the same name, [7] which markets robotic manipulation systems based on smart tactile sensors, skins and hands.

Correll is also an active researcher in robotics education [8] and is the author of an open-source, [9] collaborative textbook "Introduction to Autonomous Robots". [10]

Correll's work on robotic materials has received worldwide media attention including the Associated Press, [11] Neue Zuercher Zeitung, [12] the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, [13] and Popular Science, [14] among others.

In addition to serving as CEO of Robotic Materials Inc., Correll has been an advisor to TempAlert (acquired, [15] NASDAQ: DGII), TABS, and Occam Robotics, and currently to Robotise SE.

Academic Heritage

Since starting at the University of Colorado in 2009, two of Correll's former PhD students have taken up faculty jobs at PhD-granting institutions:

Honors

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  1. ↑ "Tenure list: June 2017". 22 June 2017.
  2. ↑ CAREER: Modeling and Design of Composite Swarming Behaviors
  3. ↑ Universities Go to Space: NASA Announces Early Career Faculty Space Tech Research Grants, August 14, 2012
  4. ↑ (Correll, Nikolaus J - 2016) -- Provost's Faculty Achievement Award for Pre-Tenure Faculty
  5. ↑ Materials that Couple Sensing, Actuation, Computation, and Communication, CCC Innovative Great Ideas, November 2, 2015
  6. ↑ M. A. McEvoy and N. Correll. Materials that couple sensing, actuation, computation and communication. Science 347(6228)
  7. ↑ Robotic Materials Inc.
  8. ↑ N. Correll, R. Wing, D. Coleman (2013): A One Year Introductory Robotics Curriculum for Computer Science Upperclassmen. In: IEEE Transactions on Education, 56 (1), pp. 54-60, 2013
  9. ↑ Introduction to Autonomous Robots on Github.com, last retrieved Nov 9, 2015.
  10. ↑ N. Correll. Introduction to Autonomous Robots.
  11. ↑ "Advances in Robotic Materials Stuck in Lab, March 20, 2015". Archived from the original on January 16, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
  12. ↑ Roboter im Schwarm: Der Automat als Herdentier, Neue Zuercher Zeitung, June 26, 2013.
  13. ↑ Next-Generation Robots Offer Sophisticated Mobility, Manipulation, and Sensing Capabilities, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 30(5):11-13.
  14. ↑ Autonomous Materials will let Future Robots Change Color and Shift Shape, Popular Science, March 19, 2015.
  15. ↑ Digi International Acquires TempAlert
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