Prof. Ramin Tavakoli Kolagari

  • Professor in the teaching and research field of software development for safe and autonomous vehicle systems
  • Head of the Automotive software lab
  • Expert for EAST-ADL, Chair of the international EAST-ADL Association
  • Use of AUTOSAR methods and tools
  • Supervising multiple consortial doctoral candidates
  • Use of innovative teaching formats, e.g. inverted classroom, just-in-time teaching

 

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Doctoral candidates

Research associate since September 2024

  • Research focus: Dependability of Embedded Perception in Autonomous Driving
  • Development of a framework to investigate and improve the dependability of object recognition systems for autonomous vehicles
  • Support in the acquisition of grant funds for automotive industry-oriented research
  • Contact person in the Automotive software lab

Research associate since June 2020

  • Research focus: Safety and security in machine learning
  • Further development of the Security Abstraction Model (SAM)

Research associate since March 2024

  • Associate in the “VAL” - fully automated shunting engine project
  • Research focus: Cybersecurity for Automated Train Applications
  • Integration of security modelling in the AUTOSAR Adaptive Toolchain
  • Development of the Security Abstraction Model (SAM)
  • Support in the supervision of IT projects in the field of autonomous model vehicles

Research associate since March 2023

  • Associate in the fully automated shunting engine project
  • Research focus: Adversarial examples for tests for approving object recognition systems
  • Producing robustness tests for an autonomous shunting engine based on adversarial examples
  • Concept for interpreting the position of a train in a track network
  • Reproduction of sensor communication in a simulation environment

Research associate since November 2024

  • Associate in the artificial intelligence for sonar devices project
  • Research focus: object detection in maritime environments
  • Development of an object detector to locate people in bodies of water
  • Development of a simulation environment for autonomous vehicles
  • Simulation of a sonar sensor in Gazebo
  • Research into using artificial intelligence on a mobile device

Master of Applied Research

Master’s student since March 2023.

  • Student assistant in the VALISENS project
  • Research focus: Comparison of synthetic and real RGB sensor data in the field of autonomous driving

Former research associates

Dr Markus Zoppelt

  • Dissertation title: Software Security Design for Cyber-Physical Systems
  • IT security for highly automated, autonomous, and networked driving
  • Applicability of (t,m) password-hardened encryption (PHE) services
  • Supporting teaching in the field of autonomous model vehicles

Online: https://zoppelt.net/

Contact

Hinnerk Müller

Research associate since April 2021 to June 2022

  • Associate in the fully automated shunting engine project
  • Research focus: Application of Explainable Artificial Intelligence techniques for testing the robustness of autonomous systems

Rebecca Ernesti

Team assistant from 2017 to 2021