Nikolaus Correll
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolNikolaus Correll is a professor and robotics expert with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and deploying miniature mechatronic systems across road, field, and home environments. He leads interdisciplinary work at the University of Colorado Boulder and as director of an institute focused on robotic materials that tightly integrate sensing, actuation, computation and communication to create life-like, reactive systems. His research marries smart materials, embedded systems, and computational optimization to advance tactile sensing, soft actuators, and rapid prototyping for robotic manipulation and multi-robot systems. A founder and former CEO who has translated research into commercial products and advised robotics and vision startups, he brings both academic rigor and entrepreneurial drive. Uncommonly, he combines low-level MATLAB control and sensor-data work (evident in contributions to an Introduction-to-Autonomous-Robots repo) with system-level visions for nervous-system-like computation in materials.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Vordiplom, Electrical Engineering, Vordiplom, Electrical Engineering at Technische Universitaet Muenchen (Munich Institute of Technology)Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, Master of Science, Electrical Engineering at ETH ZurichPost Doctoral, Post Doctoral at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCalifornia Institute of TechnologyPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at EPFL
German, French, English
Stackoverflow
71reputation
98kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (15)
matlab10
robotics10
linear-algebra9
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
control-systems8
data-analysis8
sensor8
ubuntu6
wordpress6
machine-learning6
php6
apache6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Introduction-to-Autonomous-Robots/Introduction-to-Autonomous-Robots
Nov 2013 - Oct 2017
Introduction to Autonomous Robots
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:103 commits, 1 comment in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Nikolaus primarily contributed to the development of MATLAB-based robotics simulations and exercises. They added and modified several MATLAB scripts, including those related to inverse kinematics, robot trajectory plotting, and error propagation models. The user also included RANSAC and least-squares fitting algorithms, which suggests work on sensor data analysis within the robotics context. Furthermore, the inclusion of a feedback control demonstration script shows experience with control systems.
autonomous-robotsroboticscuboulder
RoboticMaterials/FA-I-sensor
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
Sketches for interfacing Robotic Materials sensors
Contributions:11 commits in 2 months
robotics
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.