Schwieberdingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
I am working at Knorr-Bremse in the development of systems for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). My focus is on developing tools for evaluating measurement data and requirement management (traceability), but it is currently expanding to cover the legislation topics related to vehicle brakes and intelligent road vehicles. My previous work at Daimler-Protics was Requirements Engineer in the development of visualization and Augmented Reality display software for passenger vehicles. My general interest is to develop novel technology for human-computer interaction and autonomous systems, based on automatic machine cognition and artificial intelligence. In the past I have developed prototype systems for visual augmented reality demonstrators at Rockwell Scientific, which were shown in an industrial context (device maintenance). I am a founding member of the annual IEEE ISMAR conference. Already since 1990 I have been involved in the development of Autonomous Road Vehicle technology; in particular I developed a system for visual lane marking recognition and ego-state estimation based on Kalman Filter. Highlights include the first drive of an autonomous road vehicle on German public roads (in particular the drive from Munich to Odense (Denmark) in November 1995) and the participation in the 2004 US DARPA Grand Challenge (technical team lead of SciAutonics-1). As a Professor of Creative Technology at Leeds Beckett University I have taught and led modules in Graduate Courses for Engineering, Computing and Creative Technology. I have supervised 12 successfully completed PhD projects. I was involved in several of the University managing activities: Management of School Research, Member of University Research Committee, Member of the School Management Committee. I also have an interest in the application of mathematics in music, and I developed a concept for quantifying the consonance/dissonance in music as well as a tool for visualizing music, based on a 2F Fourier transform of intervals and time periodicity. I am also publishing music renditions of classical orchestral work - more info is on my 2nd profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/studiophilharmonico/ Furthermore, since 2022 I am photographing 1/6 scale dolls with the purpose of visual story-telling. In my professional career I have always been involved in all stages of projects: from the idea, conception, design, specification, to the actual implementation, software development, testing, and demonstration.
System Engineering Automated Driving
Since the year 2000 I have been serving as an expert evaluator in the occasional review of research proposals and as evaluator of ongoing research projects. I have participated in proposal evaluations for FP5, FP6, FP7 and Horizon 2020. Furthermore, I reviewed ongoing projects in audit meetings for FP6, FP7, and Horizon2020. Since 2013 I also have frequently participated in evaluations of research proposals for the Polish NCBR.
Requirements manager in the development of Augmented Reality display technology for in-vehicle applications.
Research, development, and teaching in topics related to the interface between human and computer, with applications in multimedia information systems and within creative context. This includes augmented reality, visualization, mobile devices, and web applications. Supervision of PhD students.