Paul Newman (engineer)

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Paul Michael Newman CBE FREng (born 1973 [1] ) is a British engineer and academic, the BP Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. [2] He is head of the Oxford Mobile Robotics Group (MRG) [2] and CTO at Oxa.

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In 2014, he co-founded Oxa with Ingmar Posner. [3]

Education

Newman received an MEng in Engineering Science from Balliol College, Oxford in 1995, followed by a PhD in autonomous navigation from the Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney, Australia. [3]

Career and research

Newman’s work on autonomous vehicle technology has led him to author 200 papers and garner over 15,000 citations. [3] He has an h-index of 72 according to Google Scholar. [4] In his doctoral dissertation at the University of Sydney, Paul set out the fundamentals of the large-scale navigation problem SLAM, which would later become one of the most cited papers in the field at over 3,000 citations. [3]

Following his PhD in 1999 under Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte, [1] [5] Newman worked as a Navigation Engineer at Sonardyne International, UK, in 1999 and 2000, where he wrote the navigation algorithms which underpinned operation of autonomous sub-sea vehicles dealing with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. [6]

In 2000, Newman left industry for MIT, where he was a postdoctorate research scientist, working with Professor John J. Leonard on large-scale field robotics both on land and in the ocean. [3]

He became a Departmental Lecturer in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford in 2003, [3] and set up the Mobile Robotics Group, a sub-division of the Oxford Robotics Institute, where he developed partnerships with BAE Systems and Nissan. [7] In 2005, he was appointed to a University Lectureship in Information Engineering and elected a fellow of New College Oxford where he was a Tutorial Fellow until 2012. [8] He became Professor of Engineering Science in 2010 and BP Professor of Information Engineering and Fellow of Keble College in 2012.

In 2010, Newman was awarded an EPSRC Leadership Fellowship. [8] The flagship output was the “Robotcar”, which in 2013 became the first autonomous vehicle permitted on public roads in the UK. [7]

He founded the Oxford Robotics Institute in 2016 and served as director until 2022.

In 2014, Newman leveraged the newly developed technology and, with the Robotcar team, co-founded Oxa. [9]

Honours, advisory roles and fellowships

Newman was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Fellow of the IEEE in 2014, both with citations for "outstanding contributions to robot navigation". [3]

He served on the UK Government’s Department for Transport Scientific Advisory Council from 2016 to 2020. [3]

From 2020 Newman has served as a member of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to technology and engineering. [10]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Paul Newman - Homepage : Main - Home Page browse". Robots.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Paul Newman – Oxford Robotics Institute". Ori.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Paul Newman". Google Scholar . Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  5. ↑ "Paul Newman". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  6. ↑ Campbell, Peter (17 March 2017). "Oxbotica unlocks the potential of driverless cars". Financial Times. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  7. 1 2 "8 things about Oxford's driverless tech | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  8. 1 2 "Professor Paul Newman FREng — Keble College". www.keble.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  9. ↑ Balch, Oliver (13 April 2017). "Driverless cars will make our roads safer, says Oxbotica co-founder". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  10. ↑ "No. 64082". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 June 2023. p. B10.
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