Alois Christian Knoll Explained

Alois C. Knoll
Birth Date:19 March 1961
Birth Place:Stuttgart, Germany
Nationality:German
Alma Mater:University of Stuttgart
Technische Universität Berlin
Bielefeld University
Field:Robotics, AI
Workplaces:Technical University of Munich

Alois Christian Knoll (born 19 March 1961 in Stuttgart) is German computer scientist and professor at the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (formerly TUM Department of Informatics) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He is head of the Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Embedded Systems.

Biography

Alois C. Knoll received his diploma in electrical engineering/communications engineering from the University of Stuttgart in 1985. In 1988, he received his doctorate (summa cum laude) from Technische Universität Berlin. From 1985 to 1993 he was a member of “Department 20” (Computer Science)[1] at the TU Berlin and received his habilitation in computer science in 1993.

He was appointed full professor at Bielefeld University in 1993, where he was director of the Computer Engineering Group (chair) until 2001.[2] Between 2001 and 2004, he was a group leader and a member of the steering committee of the Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems FhG-AIS.[3] [4] There, he was also head of the research group for robots and robot kits for educational purposes. It was from this group that the “Roberta”[5] programme was launched in 2002, originally intended to encourage more girls to pursue robotics.[6] In this group, the forerunners of the “Robotino” robot were conceived, which was first built and launched in 2006 and has been continuously developed by Festo-Didactic ever since.[7]

Since 2001, he has been a professor at the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich, which merged into the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) in October 2022.[8]

In 2009, he co-founded fortiss, the State Research Institute of the Free State of Bavaria for Software-Intensive Systems, and was one of its three scientific directors until 2018.[9] From 2011 to 2021, he was Program Principal Investigator at TUMCREATE[10] in Singapore and head of the Area Interlinking Design Analysis group. Between 2017 and 2021, he was visiting professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Between 2007 and 2009, he was a member of the EU's highest IT advisory body, the ISTAG Information Society Technologies Advisory Group,[11] [12] and was involved in the design of the EU flagship projects[13] within the EU FET[14] – Future and Emerging Technologies programme. He is co-author of the inaugural FET Flagship Report.[15] From 2013 to 2023, he led the Neurorobotics sub-project of the FET Flagship Human Brain Project.

From 2019 to 2020, he was Chief Digital Officer of Siemens Mobility Intelligent Traffic Systems ITS, now Yunex GmbH.[16]

Research

His research area includes cognitive sensor-based robots, multi-sensor data fusion, autonomous systems, embedded systems development: each of these in the application areas of automotive, manufacturing, medicine and intelligent transport systems. In these fields, he has published over 1000 peer-reviewed scientific papers and has served as an editor for international scientific journals and a conference organiser, including Chief Editor of the journal Frontiers in Neurorobotics.[17]

He founded the IEEE’s “Humanoids” conference series and chaired the Humanoids2000 programme committee.[18] In 2015, he was Programme Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Robots and Intelligent Systems (IROS) in Hamburg, Germany.[19] He also helped found the IEEE Cyborgs and Bionic Systems (CBS) conference series[20] and delivered the first keynote of the series at CBS 2017,[21] was General Chair of CBS 2019[22] in Munich, Germany, and is a founding member of the IEEE Technical Committee for Cyborg & Bionic Systems.[23]

Alois Knoll has supervised a large number of doctoral and postdoctoral students and guided them to their degrees. Several of his graduates and post-doctoral researchers have also become professors, either directly or via other positions, including Guang Chen,[24] Manuel Giuliani,[25] Florian Röhrbein[26] and Jianwei Zhang.[27] An essential part of his activities in the field of teaching was the establishment of the Master's programme “Robotics, Cognition and Intelligence”[28] [29] in 2010. Starting in its first year with a single-digit number of students, it has become the second largest programme of the former Faculty of Computer Science at TUM.[30] Together with Klaus Kuhn,[31] he founded the “Graduate School for Information Science in Health“ in 2008[32] and led it until it was transferred to the “Munich Institute of Biomedical Engineering”.[33]

He has been involved in a large number[34] of national and international large-scale scientific projects, both as a partner and as a coordinator for various funding bodies (including the European Union,[35] German Research Foundation,[36] [37] NRF Singapore,[38] Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy,[39] Federal Ministry of Education and Research,[40] Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure,[41] and German Academic Exchange Service[42]).

Alois Knoll is a recipient of the Carl Ramsauer Award, a Fellow of the University of Tokyo[43] and an IEEE Fellow.[44]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Geschichte der Fakultät IV – FreitagsrundenWiki . 2023-06-01 . wiki.freitagsrunde.org.
  2. Web site: AG Technische Informatik . https://web.archive.org/web/20210607111901/https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(de)/technische-fakultaet/arbeitsgruppen/Technische_Informatik/. 2021-06-07. de. uni-bielefeld.de.
  3. Web site: Startseite - Fraunhofer IAIS. www.iais.fraunhofer.de.
  4. Web site: SafeTRANS Gespräche - Alois Knoll - SafeTRANS News . 2023-06-01 . news.safetrans-de.org.
  5. Web site: IAIS . Fraunhofer . 2023-04-05 . Roberta – Lernen mit Robotern – Spielerisch programmieren lernen . 2023-06-01 . Roberta . de.
  6. Web site: Robots and Girls - A Promising Alliance . 2023-06-01 . www.ercim.eu.
  7. Web site: Festo Didactic InfoPortal . 2023-06-01 . ip.festo-didactic.com.
  8. Web site: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Alois Christian Knoll . 2022-06-01.
  9. Web site: 2021-04-22 . Alois Knoll - fortiss . 2023-06-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210422112604/https://www.fortiss.org/veroeffentlichungen/publikationen/autor/alois-knoll . 2021-04-22 .
  10. Web site: Area-interlinking Design Analysis . 2023-06-01 . www.tum-create.edu.sg . en.
  11. Web site: The EU Information Society Technologies Programme Advisory Group - ISTAG . 2023-06-01 . www.ercim.eu.
  12. Book: European Commission and Directorate-General for the Information Society and Media . Information society technologies advisory group (ISTAG) : Recommendations for workprogramme 2001 and beyond . Publications Office . 2000.
  13. Web site: FET Flagship Initiatives . 2023-06-01 . fet11.ercim.eu.
  14. Web site: EU Publications Office . EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) . 2023-06-01.
  15. Book: European Commission. Directorate General for the Information Society and Media. . European challenges and flagships 2020 and beyond. . 2009 . Publications Office . LU . 10.2759/23475. 9789279138799 .
  16. Web site: Yunex Traffic Global EN – Uniting what's next in traffic. . 2023-06-01 . www.yunextraffic.com.
  17. Web site: Frontiers in Neurorobotics . 2023-06-01 . www.frontiersin.org.
  18. Web site: Humanoids2000 Site . 2023-06-01 . www.humanoids2000.org.
  19. Web site: IROS 2015 . 2023-06-01 . iros2015.informatik.uni-hamburg.de.
  20. Web site: CBS - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society . 2023-06-01 . www.ieee-ras.org . en-gb.
  21. Book: 2017-10-17 . 2017 IEEE International Conference on Cyborg and Bionic Systems (CBS) . Beijing . IEEE . 10.1109/cbs40710.2017 . 978-1-5386-3194-2 .
  22. Web site: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cyborg and Bionic Systems – 18-20 September 2019 . 2023-06-01 . en-US.
  23. Web site: Cyborg & Bionic Systems - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society . 2023-06-01 . www.ieee-ras.org.
  24. Web site: Guang Chen - IEEE Xplore Author Profile . 2023-06-01 . IEEE Xplore.
  25. Web site: Professor Manuel Giuliani - UWE Bristol . 2023-06-01 . people.uwe.ac.uk.
  26. Web site: 2023-06-03 . Neurorobotik Fakultät für Informatik TU Chemnitz . 2023-06-01 . www.tu-chemnitz.de . de.
  27. Web site: Arbeitsbereich Technische Aspekte Multimodaler Systeme . 2023-06-01 . tams.informatik.uni-hamburg.de.
  28. Web site: Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence - Master of Science (M.Sc.) - TUM . 2023-06-01 . www.tum.de.
  29. Web site: Master Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence - TUM . 2023-06-01 . www.cit.tum.de . de.
  30. TUM Department of Informatics . 2022 . Informatics 2021 – Facts and Figures – Studying at TUM Department of Informatics .
  31. Web site: Kuhn_Klaus A. . 2023-06-01 . www.professoren.tum.de.
  32. Technische Universität München . TUM "Graduate School of Information Science in Health" (GSISH) .
  33. Web site: MIBE: Munich Institute of Biomedical Engineering . 2023-06-01 . www.bioengineering.tum.de.
  34. Web site: Research at the Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-time Systems . 2023-06-01 . www.ce.cit.tum.de . en.
  35. Web site: Partners . 2023-06-01 . www.humanbrainproject.eu.
  36. Web site: SFB-453: Telepräsenz . 2023-06-01 . www.ce.cit.tum.de . de.
  37. Web site: SFB 360 - Homepage . 2023-06-01 . www.sfb360.uni-bielefeld.de.
  38. Web site: National Research Foundation, Singapore (NRF) . 2023-05-23.
  39. Web site:
  40. Web site: Verbundprojekt: Datensicherheit im Internet der Dinge - SunRISE -, Teilvorhaben: IoT Edge Security - Dimensions . 2023-06-01 . app.dimensions.ai . en.
  41. Web site: BMDV - Proaktive Videobasierte Nutzung von Telekommunikationstechnologien in innovativen Autobahn-Szenarien - Providentia . 2023-06-01 . www.bmvi.de . de.
  42. Web site: Electric Mobility: Opportunities and Challenges--中科院计算所计算机体系结构国家重点实验室 . 2023-06-01 . www.carch.ac.cn.
  43. Book: School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo . Fellows 2021.
  44. News: IEEE . 2023 Newly Elevated Fellows . https://web.archive.org/web/20221130163052/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2023-newly-elevated-fellows.pdf. dead. November 30, 2022.