Ulrich Nehmzow - Main Research-Related Activities

Memberships

• Member of the EU FP7 grant review panel, 2007

• Member of the EPSRC peer review panel, 2003 - 2005.

• Member of the executive committee of the British Network for Biologically Inspired Robotics (Bironet)

• Member of the editorial board of J. "Connection Science"

• Member of the editorial board of AISB Journal (AISBJ)

Awards

• Leverhulme research grant on algorithmic, automated robot programming. 2007-2010 (3 years, 130k).

• EPSRC research grant (£194k) to investigate numerical modelling of robot-environment interaction, 2003

• SRIF infrastructure grant (£200k)

• Royal Society International Collaborative Award (£3k), for collaboration with the University of Wollongong, 2003.

• Royal Society/STA fellowship for research sabbatical at ETL Tsukuba (Japan), 1998 (£70k)

•  University of Manchester research promotion grant (£30k), 1994.

•  University of Essex research promotion grant (£8.9k), 2002

Chairmanships

• Founding Conference Co-Chair, ``Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots'', TIMR 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

• Conference Co-Chair, "Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems", TAROS 2004, 2005, 2006

• Conference Chair, AISB workshop on ``Scientific Methods for the Analysis of Agent-Environment Interaction'', 2003

• Conference Chair, AISB workshop on ``Spatial Reasoning in Animals and Robots'', 1997

• Programme Committee Chair, ``Simulation in AI and Robotics'', European Simulation Multiconference 1998

• Programme Co-Chair, "Eurobot 99", Zurich, October 1999.

Chairs and Editorships

1. Member of the editorial board, Connection Science

2. Member of the editorial board, AISB Journal

3. Associate editor, IROS (International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems), San Diego 2007

4. Co-editor, special issue of J Advanced Robotic Systems December 2005.

5. Co-editor, special issue of J Robotics and Autonomous Systems on “Mobile Robotics Research in the UK”, April 2005.

6. Co-chair, British Conference on Mobile Robotics “Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems”, TAROS, University of Wales at Aberystwyth, 2007.

7. Co-chair, British Conference on Mobile Robotics “Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems”, TAROS, University of Surrey 2006.

8. Co-chair and Programme Chair, British Conference on Mobile Robotics “Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems”, TAROS, Imperial College 2005.

9. Co-chair, British Conference on Mobile Robotics “Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems”, TAROS, Essex University 2004.

10. Chair, AISB symposium on “Scientific Methods for the Analysis of Agent-Environment Interaction”, Aberystwyth 2003.

11. Co-Chair, British Conference on Mobile Robotics (TIMR) Bristol 2003.

12. Chair, British Conference on Mobile Robotics (TIMR) Manchester 2001.

13. Co-Chair, British Conference on Mobile Robotics (TIMR) Bristol 1999.

14. Programme Co-Chair, “Eurobot 99”, Zurich, October 1999.

15. Programme chair, “Simulation in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics”, special symposium of the 12th European Simulation Multiconference, Manchester University, 16th - 19^th June, 1998.

16. Local organisation chair, IEE World Micromouse championships, Manchester 1998.

17. Member of editorial board, J. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, special issue on “Mobile Robotics - The New Wave”.

18. Member of editorial board, special issue of J. Autonomous Robots, Vol. 5, No. 3-4, 1998.

19. Member of editorial board, special issue of Machine Learning Journal, Vol. 31, No. 1-3, 1998.

20. Founding co-chair, British conference on mobile robotics (TIMR), Manchester 1997.

21. Co-editor, special issue of J. Robotics and Autonomous Systems on “Quantitative methods in mobile robotics”, 1997.

22. Organiser and co-chair, symposium on “Spatial reasoning in animals and robots”, AISB convention, Manchester 1997.

Research Collaboration

• Professor Keith Walker, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego USA. Collaboration since 1998 on quantitative measures of robot behaviour and chaos theory.

• Professor Roberto Iglesias Rodrigues, University of Santiago de Compostela. Collaboration since 2004 on scientific methods in mobile robotics.

• Professor Antonio Chella and Professor Rosario Sorbello, University of Palermo. Collaboration since 2004 on scientific methods in mobile robotics.

• Professor Phillip McKerrow, University of Wollongong, Australia. Collaboration since 2003 on mobile robotics.

 Reviewing for Grant-Awarding Bodies, Journals and Publishers

1. Reviewer for book proposals submitted to Springer Verlag

2. Member of the EPSRC college, 2003 - 2005

3. Reviewer for EPSRC and PPARC

4. Reviewer for Biological Cybernetics

5. Reviewer for IEEE Trans Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B

6. Reviewer for Int.J. Adaptive Behavior

7. Reviewer for Int.J. Autonomous Robots

8. Reviewer for the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS)

9. Reviewer for J. Know ledge and Information Systems.

10. Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation.

11. Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

12. Reviewer for Journal of Neural Networks.

13. Reviewer for Artificial Intel ligence Journal

14. Reviewer for Transactions of the Institute for Measurement and Control.

15. Reviewer for Journal Robotics and Autonomous Systems.

16. Reviewer for Journal Machine Learning.

17. Reviewer for IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Programme Committee Membership

Member, programme committee, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 10-14 April, 2007, Rome, Italy.
Member, programme committee European Conference on Mobile Robotics (ECMR), Freiburg 2007
Member, programme committee IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications (RA 2007)
Member, programme committee Int. Joint Conf. on AI (IJCAI) 2007
Member, programme committee IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications, 2006.
Member, programme committee ‘Simulation of Adaptive Behavior’, Rome 2006.
Member, programme committee, European Conference on Mobile Robotics, ECMR 2005
Member, programme committee ‘Simulation of Adaptive Behavior’, Los Angeles 2004
Member, programme committee IAS 8, Amsterdam 2004
Member, programme committee IJCAI 2003
Member, programme committee, European Conference on Mobile Robotics, ECMR 2003
Member, programme committee Intelligent Autonomous Systems 7, Marina del Rey 2002.
Member, programme committee Eurobot 2001.
Member, programme committee Workshop on Autonomous artificial systems exploring hostile environments, March 18th, 2001 at the American University of Dubai, U.A.E.
Member, programme committee International Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems, SIRS 2000, Reading July 2000.
Member, programme committee European Robot Learning Workshop, Lausanne 1999.
Programme committee member, ICANN 98, Skoevde, Sweden September 1998.
Member of Programme Committee, Eurobot 1997, Brescia.
Reviewer for the 6th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems.
Member of the Programme Committee for IROS 94, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
Member of the programme committee for the International Workshop on Learning for
Autonomous Robots ROBOLEARN-96 (in conjunction with Florida AI Research Symposium, May 1996).
Member of Robolearn 97 programme committee.

 Offices in Learned Societies and Professional Bodies

•    Secretary, International Society for Adaptive Behavior, http://www.isab.org

•    Member of the International Federation of Automatic Control's technical committee on  "Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles", 2005-2008.

•    Former Member, executive board of IEE Professional Network "Robotics and Mechatronics"

•    Local chairman, IEE International Micromouse Competition, Manchester 1998.

•    Chairman for 1997/98 session, Information Technology, Electronics and Control committee of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Northwest chapter.

•    Former member IEE NW Learned Society (programme steering) committee.

•    Former member IEE Northwest Centre Committee.

•    Former member IEE NW Public Relations Sub Committee.

•    Former member, IEE national Micromouse committee.

•   Former IEE student representative at the Department of Computer Science, Manchester University.

•   Adviser to the Church of England's Board for Social Responsibility (Science, Medicine and Technology committee).

Keynote Addresses

7/06 Invited keynote speaker, euCognition, Vienna 3rd July 2006.
07/03         Invited keynote speaker, RoboCup symposium, Padua 2003.
4/01          Invited speaker, International AI Symposium in memory of Sidney Michaelson, University of Edinburgh 7 April 2001.
1/01          Invited keynote speaker, Symposium organised by the German Research Council on spatial cognition, Hamburg.
1/01          Invited keynote speaker, University of the Armed Forces, Munich.
11/00         Invited keynote speaker, University of Hamburg
7/00          Invited Keynote Speaker, 8th International Symposium on Intelligent
              Robotic Systems, SIRS 2000, Reading, July 2000.
3/00          Keynote presentation, Cheshire County Council Annual Conference
              for Heads of Science, Southport, March 2000.
11/99         Invited speaker and organiser of a workshop during the 16th German
              National Mobile Robotics Conference (AMS 99), Munich.
10/99         Invited speaker, 6th International Slovenian Science Festival, Ljubljana.
6/99          Biannual conference on Applications in AI, Northwest Artificial Intelligence Applications Group, Blackburn.
9/98          Workshop on future trends in life and business, Wrexham, "The potential of autonomous mobile robots".
9/98          Sir Robert Cowen Memorial Lecture, "Robotics Research in the Land
              of the Rising Sun", Orkney Science Festival (keynote address).
9/95          John D. MacKay memorial lecture, Orkney Science Festival.

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Last updated: 16.5.2007