MAKI Scientific Workshop

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Neumann

(University of Lincoln, UK)

Title:

Traffic Prediction in SDNs using Kalman Filters in Learned Feature Spaces

Short Bio:

Gerhard is a Professor of Robotics & Autonomous Systems in College of Science. Before coming to Lincoln, he has been an Assistant Professor at the TU Darmstadt from September 2014 to October 2016 and head of the Computational Learning for Autonomous Systems (CLAS) group. Before that, he was Post-Doc and Group Leader at the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group (IAS) also in Darmstadt under the guidance of Prof. Jan Peters. Gerhard obtained his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Wolfgang Mass at the Graz University of Technology. Gerhard already authored 50+ peer reviewed papers, many of them in top ranked machine learning and robotics journals or conferences such as NIPS, ICML, ICRA, IROS, JMLR, Machine Learning and AURO. In Darmstadt, he is principle investigator of the EU H2020 project Romans and also already acquired DFG funding. He organized several workshops and is senior program committee for several conferences.